The popular designer was reportedly born on 18 February 1971 in New York, United States, to Donald Lucky Makkoo and Florence. Her father died on 2 June 2019. He was a Navy officer and former government facility's repairman.
Sue grew up alongside two siblings, Susan and Thomas Makkoo. She attended Arizona State University.
Career
Ariana Debose's partner, Sue, is an instructor. She commenced her career at Colorado Christian University between 1995 and 1997 as an assistant professor in Costume Design. From January 2011 to June 2013, she was the costume designer for Kentucky Shakespeare.
The established fashion designer worked for the Tony Award-winning theatre La Jolla Playhouse between 2005 and 2016. Additionally, she has designed costumes for several Broadway productions like Memphis, Sideshow, Hands on a Hard Body, 33 Variations, and Cry Baby. One of her recent projects was designing costumes for the 2022 Tony Awards.
Sue is currently a fashion and costume design professor at the Manhattan School of Music at the University of California under the San Diego Department of Theater and Dance MFA program.
She has also been involved in over 300 productions in the last ten years. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is one of her personal favourites. Aside from that, she is also a poet. She has a website called Civilized, and the portal is poetry galore.
