Danielle Best is a costume designer, costume maker, and researcher based in New York and Boston. She endeavors to design for theater, film, and television through the use of illustration, historical research, her love of period dress, and her skills as both a designer and draper.

Having received her Bachelors of Arts at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, & Television, she is now currently attending Boston University to pursue her Masters of Fine Arts. Her costume design work includes the theater productions Claude, Claudette, and Nicole (UCLA’s Theater Department - 2025), Uncle Vanya (UCLA’s Shakespeare Company - 2024), and the short films Bukra (2023), Love Spells (2023), and So Mang (2023).

In her work, Danielle is inspired by historical costuming and the way history can tell a story through clothing and silhouette. Throughout her artistic process, she works to not only study her scripts, but to study the design and tone of the work in question. This offers her a thorough view of not just the characters, but what the director wants to say and how the setting influences that vision.