Ari Fulton is a New York-based costume designer for stage and film. Ms. Fulton has built a diverse career designing costumes regionally and internationally. Ms. Fulton received a BFA in Costume Design from The Theater School at DePaul University. She continued her studies by obtaining an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2018, Ms. Fulton received her first feature film credit, for her design work for Nigerian Prince, which was shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria. Spike Lee executively produced the film. Nigerian Prince is the first recipient of the Tribeca and AT&T New Voices Award. Recent theater credits include: Disney’s Frozen, Rocky Horror, Rent!, and Off-Broadway directed by Robert O’Hara. Film credits include: Cupids, directed by Zoey Martinson, which is a part of Tribeca’s 846:Reclaiming Time for Stories of Black Love and Joy Film Series, and Ricky, winner of the Sundance Best Directing Award. Ms. Fulton is the proud recipient of the Black Theatre Coalition’s Costume Design Fellowship (2023) and the Lily Creative Spirit Award(2017) for her costume design work. In 2021, Ms. Fulton started the new year by receiving a Broadway World Miami Award for Design of the Decade, for her work on A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. Ms. Fulton has taught at the University of Connecticut, where she was the Interim Head of Costume Design (2020/2021). She currently serves on faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Brooklyn College.