Constanza Romero
Encyclopedia
Constanza Romero is an American
artist and theater
designer
who lives in Seattle, Washington
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Romero's parents divorced in 1969, when she was 11. Her mother found a teaching job in Fresno, California
, and moved there with Romero and her younger sister and two younger brothers. In 1972 her mother died of breast cancer
, and the four children went to live with a maternal aunt and uncle near Fresno.
Romero met August Wilson
in 1990 when her Yale School of Drama
teachers assigned her to design costume
s for his new play, The Piano Lesson
. Wilson and Romero married in 1994. They had a daughter, Azula Carmen Wilson, prior to Wilson's death in October 2005.
United States
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artist and theater
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
who lives in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
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Romero's parents divorced in 1969, when she was 11. Her mother found a teaching job in Fresno, California
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
, and moved there with Romero and her younger sister and two younger brothers. In 1972 her mother died of breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
, and the four children went to live with a maternal aunt and uncle near Fresno.
Romero met August Wilson
August Wilson
August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...
in 1990 when her Yale School of Drama
Yale School of Drama
The Yale School of Drama is a graduate professional school of Yale University providing training in every discipline of the theatre: acting, design , directing, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, playwriting, stage management, sound design, technical design and production, and theater...
teachers assigned her to design costume
Costume
The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances...
s for his new play, The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson. The Piano Lesson is the fifth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying ones past"...
. Wilson and Romero married in 1994. They had a daughter, Azula Carmen Wilson, prior to Wilson's death in October 2005.