Paloma Young is a Tony Award–winning costume designer whose work has shaped some of the most recognizable productions on Broadway and in London over the past decade. She won the Tony Award for Peter and the Starcatcher and has earned Tony and Olivier nominations for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and & Juliet. Her designs are woven through shows like The Notebook, Bandstand, and Real Women Have Curves, part of a body of work built inside a demanding industry powered by a very real maxim that “the show must go on.”

For years, Paloma learned how to live inside that rhythm. Long days. Late nights. A career that asks you to be available whenever the work needs you (and rewards those who can endure it). But when motherhood came with its own demands, the trade-offs became real in a way they never had before.

In this episode of The Resistance, Paloma talks candidly about what it means to make art inside a life that now includes real limits. Theater schedules that leave little room for family, the invisible labor of being “easy to work with,” and the small negotiations that happen every day when you care deeply about the work but refuse to disappear into it.

VISIT: Paloma Young