Simmons is an American Costume Designer of staged productions. He received his MFA in Costume Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. His design credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, The Merchant of Venice, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Man of La Mancha, A Streetcar Named Desire and Ensemble. He has also done work on three seasons of AMC’s television show TURN, the 2nd National Touring production of the Broadway hit In the Heights and two seasons of the PBS television series Mercy Street. He is currently the Associate Costume Designer for all productions of Come From Away (designed by Toni-Leslie James) playing in the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway, the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, the Phoenix Theatre in London, the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and in various theatres across the US and Canada for the North American Tour.