Biography

During the 2025-26 season, Kara Harmon makes her HGO debut as the costume designer for Of Mice and Men. Harmon’s costume designs for opera include Dialogues of the Carmelites (The Juilliard School); Così fan tutte (Arizona Opera); Blue (New Orleans Opera); and Hometown to the World (Santa Fe Opera). Her Off-Broadway design credits include The Great Privation (Soho Repertory Theatre); Watch Night (Perelman PAC); Cullud Wattah (Public Theater); The Niceties (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Dot (Vineyard Theatre). Select regional credits include The Other Americans (Arena Stage); The Penelopiad (Goodman Theater); The Three Musketeers (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Choir Boy (Steppenwolf); Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Children’s Theatre Company); Shutter Sister (Old Globe);  Darlin’ Cory (The Alliance Theater); Guys & Dolls (Guthrie Theater); The Purists (Huntington Theatre); and The Color Purple (Portland Center Stage). Harmon was awarded the 2019 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The Wiz! (Ford’s Theatre), the 2017 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Costume Design for Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse), and the 2023 Connecticut Critics Circle Outstanding Costume Design Award for 42nd Street at Goodspeed Musicals, a world-renowned theater company in Connecticut.