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Manager on Duty/Stage Manager, Rockport Music; Rockport, MA

Responsible for house management at live music events, including merchandise sales, talent management, supervision of volunteer ushers, hospitality, and box office staff
Provide audio and video support for live music and broadcast events

Cutter/Draper/Stitcher, Salem State University; Salem, MA

Creation of costumes in academic theatre environment, including men’s tailoring and alterations
Assist with student workers completing classwork

Resident Costume Coordinator, North Shore Music Theatre; Beverly, MA

Responsible for management of costume department operations; maintain budgets for each production, costume shop and wardrobe facilities; hiring and supervision of wardrobe staff. Part of a team responsible for the set up and re-opening of closed regional theatre.
Coordinate costume packages or design costumes for NSMT productions. Conduct fittings during rehearsal periods in New York City and Beverly MA.
Construct costumes as necessary; supervise fittings and alterations. Maintain wig continuity for show runs.
Assist contracted designer with any shopping, researching and rentals.
Create wardrobe-tracking paperwork for arena-staged productions.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid  (Michael Heitzman, Dir.)
Hello, Dolly! (Charles Repole, Dir.)
Les Misérables (Marc Robin, Dir.)
The Music Man (Bob Richard, Dir.)
Guys and Dolls (Mark Martino, Dir.)
*nominated for  best costume design 2013 by the Independent Reviewers of New England

Legally Blonde (Nick Kenkel, Dir.)
*nominated for best costume design 2012 by the Independent Reviewers of New England
Chicago (Nick Kenkel, Dir.)
Miss Saigon (Richard Stafford, Dir.)
Saturday Night Fever (Richard Stafford, Dir.)

Summer Costume Designer, Lake Dillon Theatre Company; Lake Dillon, CO

Pre-production planning with Director of Education for four, fully-realized, youth productions for each summer—Annie Kids, Annie Jr., Winnie the Pooh Kids, The Wizard of Oz, Aladdin Jr, Aladdin Kids, Alice in Wonderland, The Addams Family, Jr.
Costume Designer for main stage productions of Ghost and Sister Act.
Responsible for creation/purchase/sourcing of all costumes used in summer productions.
Hired, trained and supervised Costume Apprentice and Wardrobe Supervisor.

Interim Costume Director, University of Southern Maine; Gorham, ME

Temporary supervisor of small theatre department costume shop.
Primary costume technician responsible for construction and alterations of costumes for three productions.

Costume Coordinator, Opera Carolina; Charlotte, NC

Coordinated costume packages for four opera productions per season in consultation with Stage Director and Production Manager. Arranged for shipment and delivery of all costume packages with rental agency and independent shipping firm.
Attended all dress rehearsals and productions, supervised local IA wardrobe crew.
Toured Opera Carolina productions when necessary.
Designed costumes for Amahl and the Night Visitors, December 2007.
Coordinated productions: The Pearl Fishers, La Traviata, Cinderella, Margaret Gardner, Madame Butterfly, Pagliacci, La Vida Breve, The Pirates of Penzance, Romeo and Juliette, Don Giovanni, Aida, Die Fledermaus.

Instructor/Cuter-Draper, University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC

Instructor of Theatre 252, Introduction to Costume Construction and Theatre 552, Advanced Costume Construction/Patternmaking.
Assisted in daily operations of costume shop in academic setting working as a cutter/draper for main-stage productions, supervising undergraduate lab students and mentoring graduate and undergraduate costume design/technology students.Costume Shop Supervisor, Chautauqua Opera; Chautauqua, NY.
Responsible for daily operations of costume shop; maintained budgets for labor, supplies and four productions each season. Hired and supervised eight employees each season. Supervised fittings, construction of built costumes and alterations. Maintained and organized small costume stock.
Coordinated productions: The Gondoliers, Carmen.

Costume Shop Manager, College of Charleston; Charleston, SC

Hired and supervised work crew of five student work-study employees and supervised approximately thirty costume lab students per semester creating costumes for eight productions per calendar year in academic costume shop setting.
Instructor of Theatre 240, Introduction to Costuming, and mentor to student costume designers.

Costume Design Assistant, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA

Assisted Costume Designers contracted to LJP, including Jess Goldstein, Catherine Zuber and Emilo Sosa. Attended meetings in designer’s absence. Researching per designer’s needs, interpretive and non-interpretive shopping, ordering and swatching.
Responsible for compiling all show paperwork (i.e. show bibles, scene charts, dressing lists, petty cash).
Designed costumes for touring education show.

M.F.A. Theatre, Costume Design, 2001
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

B.A., Drama and French, 1997
University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point, WI

Tim O’Donnell 
Education Production Manager
The New College of Florida
(347) 453-1066
 timdodonnell@gmail.com

“I have seen her work span old world, to 70s, to modern day, to jungle gorillas, and she impresses more and more with every garment I see.”

Lars Nelson 
Technical Director
Park Avenue Armory
(978) 317-9477
 larscnelson@gmail.com

Miguel Flores 
Production Coordinator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(909) 451-3102
mfpuck@me.com

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