{"id":2568,"date":"2022-06-09T02:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/?page_id=2568"},"modified":"2022-06-09T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:00:28","slug":"joni-johns-lerner-associate-chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/joni-johns-lerner-associate-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Johns Lerner &#8211; Associate Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2817 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-1536x1243.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2022\/06\/JJ-Headshot-3.-2048x1658.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joni Johns Lerner<\/strong><em> (Associate Chair, Associate Professor:\u00a0Costume Design, Costume Technology, Costume History, Evolution of Fashion)\u00a0<\/em>has been working in the NY professional costume industry for over twenty-five years. Examples of her work can be seen on the stages of the Broadway, the touring &amp; Japan companies of <em>The Lion King<\/em>, the Broadway &amp; National Tour of <em>Thoroughly Modern Millie<\/em> and <em>Wicked<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other projects have included <em>New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet &amp; Kansas City Ballet<\/em>.\u00a0 Her work can also be seen on the Spiderman costumes at <em>Universal Studios Theme Park<\/em> in Florida. Joni was co-owner of <em>Fabric Effects<\/em> in NYC, a fabric dyeing, painting &amp; silk screening company serving the theater, film and fashion industries.\u00a0 She has collaborated with numerous designers of stage, screen &amp; ballet as well as <em>Bette Midler<\/em> for special costumes for her stage tours and <em>Maurice Sendak<\/em> on several opera projects as well as a numbered &amp; signed series of hand painted silk scarves.<\/p>\n<p>Joni obtained her BFA from Denison University and MFA in Theater Design\/Technology from Purdue University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonijohns.com\/\">www.JoniJohns.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Information<\/strong><br \/>\nJoni Johns Lerner, Associate Chair<br \/>\nDepartment of Theatre Arts<br \/>\n203-837-3984<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lernerj@wcsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lernerj@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/full-time-faculty\/\">Click here<\/a> to return to Full-Time Faculty page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joni Johns Lerner (Associate Chair, Associate Professor:\u00a0Costume Design, Costume Technology, Costume History, Evolution of Fashion)\u00a0has been working in the NY professional costume industry for over twenty-five years. Examples of her work can be seen on the stages of the Broadway, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}