Nia Safarr Banks is a costume designer whose work spans theatre, opera, and film. With experience across more than 10 film productions, her screen credits include the short film Oh Happy Day, directed by Ivan Rome, and 72 Whaler, directed by Stephen Miles.
Her theatrical design credits include Macbeth (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Fat Ham (Virginia Stage Company), and What Will Happen to All That Beauty? (Contemporary American Theatre Festival).
Banks has received critical recognition for her costume design, earning two Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Award nominations for An Octoroon (TheatreLAB) and A Christmas Kaddish (Richmond Triangle Players), as well as a Boston Theater Critics Association Award nomination for The Glass Menagerie (Gloucester Stage).
Known for her collaborative approach and thoughtful visual storytelling, Banks creates costumes that deepen character, support narrative, and bring each production's world to life across stage and screen.