Jorge Sandoval holds a Doctor of Arts degree from Aalto University, Department of Film, Television and Scenography in Helsinki Finland. He also holds an MFA in Theatre and Interdisciplinary Studies from The University of Regina in Canada, and a BFA in Art History and Studio Art from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Jorge actively researches the field of costume studies through a variety of perspectives: queer identity, gender equality and inclusion in higher education, queer theatre and performance, and gender and language in the workplace. He has published several articles on these topics for a variety of peer reviewed journals.
Jorge served as the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Costume for Performance Course at University of the Arts London from 2020 to 2023. From 2005 to 2016 he worked as the set and costume resident designer for the Banff Summer Arts Festival (Canada), where he designed and mentored young designers from Canada and abroad. From 1987 to present, Jorge is involved in professional dance and art performance in Canada and abroad, and at present he is leading the curation of an exhibition on costumes and photography projected to open in 2028 in Canada.
Jorge’s article-based doctoral dissertation explored the ways the male costumed body performs theatricality in non-theatre settings. It does so by looking at costume as a means of expressing non-normative gender. The performance of the costumed body in non-theatre settings expands the notion of representation to include human interaction in the physical, material world and on the internet—both considered integral parts of the ambit of the everyday. The purpose of this research was to consider the queered male body in a variety of spaces as a theatrical device, and to understand it from the viewpoint of costume studies in order to explore the concepts of ‘costume’ and ‘body’ as simultaneously signifying and deconstructing binaric gender assumptions.