Photograph by Phillip Cheng
Leonard Augustine Choo is an international costume designer, fashion consultant, educator, and bespoke maker currently based in Singapore. He designs costumes for dance, opera, theatre, and film, and was the principal fabric shopper for the costume department of the New York City Ballet for 12 seasons, working on over 75 unique ballets.
Design credits include: End of the Rainbow, Urinetown: The Musical, The Glass Menagerie, Muswell Hill, Late Company, The Son, The Mother (Pangdemonium); Guards at the Taj, Gretel & Hansel, The Truth (Singapore Repertory); Merdeka! (W!ld Rice); iSing International Opera Festival (Suzhou, China); American Ballet Theatre Fall 2018 Campaign Video, Moulin Rouge Commercial Spot (Ezra Hurwitz); Forest Boy (NY Musical Theatre Festival); Imagining Madoff, Pattern of Life (New Repertory Theater), Don Giovanni (BU Opera Institute and Huntington Theatre), and House (Boston Center for American Performance).
Leonard done work for the Juilliard School, the television shows Gotham (FOX) and Crashing (HBO), Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ballet Academy East (New York), Barrington Stage Company, and Opera Omaha, and has lectured at the Arkansas Arts Center, National Library, and Lasalle College of the Arts.
Holding a Master in Fine Arts from Boston University, Leonard was the first and only costume designer awarded the Singapore National Arts Council Overseas Arts Scholarship in 2011.
Leonard is currently Director of Industry Development for the Singapore Fashion Council.