ROLE: Costume designer and Production Stage Manager
This show presented the exciting challenge of recreating costumes for characters based on the famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. This required finding fabrics with patterns that resembled the pointallism technique as well as interpreting the painting to ensure all designs were built to be functional and period specific.
In addition to the costumes in Act I, the show also requires styling the entire cast in modern gala attire for Act II. I strived to design each character with their own style and quirks that would embody the attendees of a modern day gallery opening.
Lastly, my design required a mechnical dress which I designed and built myself- including welding, installing remote operated mechanisms and draping the dress on top of the base. Be sure to check out the dress page for more details.
ROLE: Designer and creator
For my design for Sunday in the Park with George the script required a mechanical dress that was able to open and close to allow the actress to step out of the dress for a portion of the scene while the dress remained standing on its own.
I started by designing the base of the dress in 1/4” scale and then once that was finessed I then started building the dress to size. Step one was to weld a frame that would allow the dress to stand on its own. I then installed small remote controlled servo motors to allow the dress to open and close using a wireless remote offstage. The final step was to drape fabric over the top to make the dress appear to have been sewn like a normal garment.
ROLE: Costume designer
This design required extensive research into the Edwardian period to design costumes from the 1890s. I enjoyed designing custom gowns for the leading ladies that were both character and period specific while also cohesive to the overall design of the production.
Handmade leather masks.
The first mask below was designed for the character of Maureen in RENT. Others were custom designs for a masquerade themed gala.
A variety of handmade puppets I created.
Variety of makeup designs including: fantasy characters, blood guts and gore, Van Gogh recreation, animal and old age.
Custom handmade top hat inspired by the Mad Hatter and Victorian corsetry
Hat making skills included drafting the pattern, hand and machine sewing, eyelet and rivets, and handmade lacing.