Virginia Belt is an award-winning costume designer whose work has been seen at Smokey Mt. Shakespeare Company, Knoxville TN, Spectra Productions at NYMF Festival NY NY, North West Children’s Theater, JANE Theater Company, and Stark Raving Theater, Portland OR.

A multi-disciplinary artist, Belt danced with American Festival Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet Theater and Duluth Ballet and co-founded Dance for Parkinson’s Oregon. She directed Much Ado About Nothing for Portland Actor’s Ensemble, performed in Labyrinth of Desire for Teatro Milagro and choreographed The Oldest Profession for Profile Theater.

With a Business and Theater degree from the University of Idaho, Virginia has worked as Educational Outreach Coordinator for Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare Company, Adjunct-Professor of dance and acting for Willamette University, and Artistic Director of Willamette University Dance Concert and Shakespeare to Go’s educational programs. This past year, she created the Purple Umbrella entity to produce dance and theater works. Her first sponsorship of the new musical “Woven” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland this past summer drew full houses and strong reviews.