After nearly 40 years of collegiate theater, Pugh is designing and building a variety of costumes for Landes Costumes by Rachel. Many of his costumes are historical or based on the antique and vintage patterns in his collection, which are the basis of the International Flat Pattern Repository and Exchange. His work in the preservation of these patterns earned him a 1999 Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
National Costumers Association, Costume Society of America, associate professor of theatre at Butler University (emeritus), listed in Marqui’s Who’s Who (America, Entertainment and World)