Shane Ballard is a costume designer for stage and screen. Much of his work has been in the world of dance. In 2024 Ballard was commissioned by The Tucson Symphony Orchestra to design the costumes for a dance performance of Revel’s Bolero at the Linda Ronstadt Academy of Music in Tucson, Arizona. Other costume design credits include: Embarqued, which premiered at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 2022, Kolonial, a 2021 Bessie Award-nominated film commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Look Who’s Coming To Dinner for Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages performance series, Innovative Works; Beyond The Mint (Charlotte Ballet), Both/And (Gibney Dance Company) and Hair (Berkshire Theater Group)

Ballard also works as a costume concept illustrator for theater, TV, and film. He was on the design teams for the new cinematic reimagining of The Color Purple The Musical, the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, the Oscar-nominated film Harriet, Emmy Award-winning TV program The Wiz Live (NBC), and The Gilded Age (HBO). His Broadway credits include: Topdog/Underdog, MJ the Musical, and Motown musical Ain’t Too Proud.