“…the costumes by Amela Baksic, which drape the characters in flawlessly tasteful fashion, contribute to the sense that design is a pathetic hedge against fate and human nature.”

Amela Baksic, a recipient of the prestigious Design Fellowship from The National Endowment of the Arts has worked extensively in Theatre, Film, and Television. She has designed costumes for a wide range of directors and actors including Al Pacino, Vera Farmiga, Kyra Sedgwick, Olympia Dukakis, Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, and Julie Harris, to name a few.

Most recently, she designed costumes for feature films The Art of Love, Higher Ground (Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2011), Chlorine and Beware the Gonzo (official selection Tribeca Film Festival 2010). She also assisted Albert Wolsky on Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, which received 2008 Academy Award Nomination for best costume design. Her most recent episodic TV work includes "The Good Wife" (CBS), "Fringe" (Warner Brothers Television/Fox) and "Kings" (NBC).

Highlights of her theatre career are: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival of Canada; Shakespeare's R&J in London's West End and in Japan; productions at off-Broadway theatres that include Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actors Studio and also significant regional theaters across the country.

Amela holds M.F.A. in costume design from Brandeis University.