Hope Maddox is the Costume Shop Manager and Resident Costume Designer at Randolph College. She has costume designed many of the college’s shows since 2018 and is the current Faculty Advisor for “Sock and Buskin.” Hope enjoys teaching her students skills in costume technology and strives to foster a creative environment for others to learn in.

Hope has worked professionally as the Costume Shop Manager at the American Shakespeare Center from 2018 to 2020. At the ASC she has designed Romeo and Juliet (2022), A Christmas Carol (2022), The Defamation of Cicely Lee (2020), “The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” in the 2019 A Christmas Carol.

At Endstation Theatre Company she has served as an intern in 2014, an overhire stitcher, as the Assistant Costume Designer for The Whole Bunch, and the Costume Designer of Treasure Island (2023).

Locally, she designed shows with Sweet Briar College, as well as designing the Old City Cemetery Candlelight Tours in Lynchburg from 2020-2023. She has run wardrobe with the Berglund Center in Roanoke, Va for several of their incoming tour stops including Anastasia the Broadway Musical and CATS. She has also worked previously as a tour guide at the Lynchburg Museum System and constructed costume pieces for their use.

Hope holds a BA in Theatre with a minor in History from Longwood University. She received her MA in Nonprofit Leadership Studies from the University of Lynchburg. She holds a certificate from the University of Glasgow and Historic Royal Palaces in A History of Royal Fashion, as well as one from the University of Roehampton in Tudor History. She also holds two certificates from the University of Lynchburg in Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising and Nonprofit Management.