Sydney Maresca is a fashion historian, theater designer, and educator with a strong background in clothing construction and textile crafts. Her research is focused on clothing and textiles in the seventeenth-century American northeast that speak to indigenous and immigrant encounters, craft, labor, and women’s roles in their communities—with a particular interest in Indigenous American featherwork textiles and early modern European nakedness.  Notable design projects include the Broadway premieres of The Cottage, The Lighting Thief, and the award-winning play Hand to God.  Sydney has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Department of Design for Stage and Film, an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.  She has held full-time faculty positions at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Williams College, and Marymount Manhattan College.  In the early 2000s, she was part of  the NYC ukulele band The Hazzards whose song "Gay Boyfriend" was one of the first viral music videos and debuted at #67 on the UK Singles Chart.