Colleen Muscha, Professor of Costume Design has been the Director of the MFA Costume Design program at Florida State University for over thirty years. She has designed costumes professionally at numerous regional theatres including the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Utah, Dallas, and Texas Shakespeare Festivals, and Asolo Theatre Company.

She has designed costumes for the original productions of David Mamet's Lakeboat and Larry Shue's The Nerd. Some noted actors she has designed for include Morgan Freeman, Lili Taylor, Joe Morton, CCH Pounder, Phyllis Frelich, and André DeShields.

Costume design renderings for The Love Talker, which was produced for the Actor's Theatre of Louisville—Humana Festival were included in the USITT Design Exposition 1988. Her work for A Doll's House, produced at Florida State University, and was also cited during the 1998 USITT Design Expo.

Her costume designs, renderings and photos are published in both the Costume Designer's Handbook and Costumer Technician's Handbook by Ingham and Covey. Her computer renderings are published in Annie O. Cleveland's, Digital Costume Design and Rendering.

Her awards include the 2018 Florida Theatre Conference Career Achievement Award and the Teaching Incentive Award from Florida State for outstanding teaching.

She is a Finalist in the 2022 International Design Competition: World of Wearable Art, which will be produced in New Zealand this fall.

She is member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, Costume Society of America and Surface Design Association.