Nia Safarr Banks is a Costume Designer whose work include Theatre, Opera, and Film. Her theatrical designs includes Macbeth (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Fat Ham (Virginia Stage Company), and What Will Happen to All That Beauty? (Contemporary American Theatre Festival). She has been nominated for two Richmond Critic Awards and one Boston Theater Critic award for her outstanding work in Costume Design, for both An Octoroon (TheatreLAB), A Christmas Kaddish (Richmond Triangle Players), and The Glass Menagerie (Gloucester Stage)

Her upcoming credits includes SMOKE (The Theater Offensive), A New Era ( Company One) and Betrayal (Gloucester Stage).