Summary

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Credits

11/15 – 12/15

Ager and Dyer Jack Reacher 2 Never Go Back

Film (Feature-length) — Skydance Productions and Paramount Pictures Details
11/15 – 12/15

Millinery: Building, altering, and decorating several hats.

12/14 – 7/15

Costume Supervisor (Costume Crafts Supervisor. Richard II, Q Gents (A modern retelling of Two Gentl) Illinois Shakespeare Festival

Live/Special Event — Illinois Shakespeare Festival Details
12/14 – 7/15

Supervising 2 crafts employees and 1-2 interns. Organizing Build, Pull, Buy lists, pulling needed equipment, or buying supplies if we did not have the materials needed. Building armor, crowns, puppets, jewelry, masks, aging/dyeing of costumes, and maintaining pieces through the run.

8/10 – 7/15

Costume Fabricator (Instructor, Advisor, Supervisor for the academic year. Teaching a stage makeup )

Staff Position — Illinois State University Details
8/10 – 7/15

Teaching Stage Makeup and Costume Crafts (A different topic each semester such as: Aging/Dyeing of Textiles, Armor, Masks, Millinery, Special Effects Makeup, and History of Textiles). Creating crafts for the 10+ shows a season, and supervising student workers that helped. Advising student designers of Makeup and Wigs.

5/14 – 9/14

Costume Designer In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl

Live/Special Event — Illinois State University Details
5/14 – 9/14

Design and build costumes for a play set in the late Victorian era. Organizing pull, build, and buy lists. Assist in fittings. Assign and supervise building projects for the students.

4/12 – 10/12

Costume Designer Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka

Live/Special Event — Illinois State University Details
4/12 – 10/12

Design and Build Costumes for this production. Organize costumes, create build, pull, buy lists. Assist and schedule fittings, work on alterations, and supervise various build projects within the shop.

8/04 – 6/08

Costume Fabricator (Costume Crafts, MIllinery, Armor) Met Opera - Die Zauberflote

Film (Feature-length) — Metropolitan Opera Details
8/04 – 6/08

Building several pieces for the Opera. Millinery, Armor, Headpieces, and various accessories.

8/04 – 6/08

Costume Fabricator (Building Accessories, Applying decor, Assembling Crafts pieces) The Met Opera - Orfeo ed Euridice

Film (Feature-length) — The Metropolitan Opera Details
8/04 – 6/08

Applying decor to costumes, Supervising craft interns, organizing costume pieces.

Unions

  • IATSE Local 478 Studio Mechanics (SM)
  • IATSE Local 764 Theatrical Wardrobe Union (TWU)

Recos

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Education

Class of '04

University of Connecticut

Master of Fine Arts in Costume design
Class of '98

University of Idaho

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design

Skills

  • Special Effects Makeup
  • Acrylic Painting
  • Costume Design
  • costume construction
  • millinery
  • Tailoring
  • Makeup Design
  • Casting and Molding
  • Ageing/Dyeing
  • Armor making
  • Casting with Plaster
  • Casting with Resin
  • Distressing of Textiles
  • Thermoplastics