Leslie Bonnell has been teaching sewing classes in her private studio for three years.

"I take great pleasure in providing a fun, creative and supportive learning environment and sharing what I know and love about sewing."

For nearly two decades I have worked in Austin as an award-winning costume designer, jewelry designer, milliner and chanteuse. I managed the costume department at Zachary Scott Theater Center from 1991-1999 and received numerous B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table Awards for my costume design work and hat designs. In the Best of Austin 2000 issue of the Austin Chronicle, I was named "Best Fashion Fantasist."

"An accomplished designer with an extensive understanding of fashion and fantasy, Bonnell takes what could be ordinary theatrical wear and transforms it into haute couture costumes of high style and soaring imagination. Her wizard's touch has graced such Zachary Scott Theatre Center productions as Tommy, the Santaland Diaries and Schoolhouse Rock, but no show shows what she's best at better than ZACH's 1999 take on the Rocky Horror Show, where she took the classic but now-hackneyed look of that gender-bent horror musical, added a touch of Thierry Mugler, a daub of Claude Montana, and a whole lot of Leslie Bonnell, and created visual magic."

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