Holly Hynes

Ballet Design Consultant

For 21 years, Ms. Hynes served as the Director of Costumes for New York City Ballet. Recognized as a leading authority in the accurate reproduction of important original ballet works, including those of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, Ms. Hynes has assisted many major companies, both in the United States and abroad, including the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Denmark; Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris, France; Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, France; The Bavarian State Ballet, Munich, Germany; The Cincinnati Ballet, Ohio; San Francisco Ballet, California; The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham, England; The Royal Ballet, London, England; Miami City Ballet, Florida; La Scala Theatre Ballet, Milan, Italy; Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam; Hamburg Ballet, Germany; Staatsballett Berlin, Germany; and the Mariinsky Ballet, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Theatrical Design and Opera

Ms. Hynes' theatrical designs include two Broadway productions at Circle in the Square Theatre: "On Borrowed Time," directed by George C. Scott, and George Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married," as well as a dozen plays and musicals at the off-Broadway York Theatre. Her opera designs include La Gioconda and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, including Christopher Wheeldon's Dance of the Hours; and The Music Master, Gerard Schwarz, conducting. She has designed several productions for Theater for Young Audiences, based at The John F. Kennedy Center, including the national tour of Quiara Alegria Hudes' Barrio Grrrl!

Art Work and Publications

Her designs for Ulysses Dove's Red Angels at New York City Ballet, George Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15 for Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center and Kaleidoscope for Peter Quanz at American Ballet Theater were featured on covers of Dance Magazine.

Four of her costume renderings remain as part of the permanent collection of the Theatre Wing of the Museum of the City of New York. She has exhibited renderings and watercolors in two gallery shows at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and has had six of her costumes featured on covers of the 1994-95 New York State Theater Playbills, also at Lincoln Center. Ms. Hynes' designs for six miniature ballerina dolls were featured in the 1996 Christmas decorations at the White House and will remain in the permanent collection of the President William Jefferson Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1997, she was honored with a one-woman show of her costumes, sketches and photographs at the Marvin Cone Galleries, at Coe College, her alma mater, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. From 2008 to 2009, three of her costumes for dance were featured in "CURTAIN CALL: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance," an exhibition shown at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.

Lectures / Appearances

In May, 2007, her thoughts on designing for the ballet were archived in a video titled, "Speaking of Dancing" for the Jerome Robbins dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City. In fall of 2010, Ms. Hynes was invited with another colleague to give a presentation entitled, "See the Music - Hear the Dance" in Florence, Italy, at the Second Costume Colloquium celebrating dress for dance.

Personal life

Ms. Hynes is originally from Des Moines, Iowa and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, Jim Zulakis, their son Christopher Zulakis, who graduated as a cartooning major from the School of Visual Arts, in NYC. They have a turtle named "Scardey." Their daughter, Katina Zulakis lives in Queens, NY, and is a professional graphic designer and artist.