Currently serving as the chair of the Rutgers Theater Department, Ellen Bredehoft has been teaching Costume Technology at Rutgers since the fall of 2010. Most recently she was a draper and tailor for the Broadway production of Shucked. She has also worked for several companies including The Norwegian National Ballet and Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, Delaware Theater Company, Manhattan School of Music, Bucks County Playhouse, Red Bull Theatre, Huntington Theatre, and The Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers University, she served as costume director and lecturer at the University of Wyoming and as associate costume shop manager at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. She has also worked as costume shop manager for Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, and for Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts. Bredehoft has several costume design credits in dance and theater. As an active member of United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), she has participated in several sessions at the annual USITT conference. She is also a member of Costume Society of America (CSA), Textile Society of America, and the European Textile Network.