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COSTUME DESIGN

I think of myself as a "Costume Generalist." I wear many "job hats" at the same time. In my current position at the University of San Diego, I am responsible for both the design and construction of the costumes for each production I work on. Thus I often wear my Designer hat, my Costume Shop Manager hat, my Cutter/Draper and Stitcher hats, my Craftsperson hat, my Lead Dresser hat, and my Faculty Instructor hat simultaneously

Many of the designs below (for both the Undergraduate and Graduate programs in Theatre at USD) are a mix of pulled costumes from the Old Globe Theatre and built pieces specific to each show.

Some shows don't have accompanying renderings; instead they have what I call "Research Boards." These are collections of primary and secondary research gathered and presented in a visually interesting way that relays necessary information to the Production Team, Directors, and Actors without committing to a specific look for each costume. I can discuss time, locale, age, gender, social rank, personality, and any changes to these aspects directly with historical research and the elements of design, providing a guide for my hunt through costume stock.

University of San Diego 2005 | Grapes of Wrath, Woody Guthrie's American Song 2004 | Arcadia 2003 | The Illusion, Einstein's Dreams 2002 | The Dining Room 2001 | Our Country's Good, Comedies of Error 2000 | Hair, Subject To Fits 1999 | Our Town, Richs, Shooting Plastic Deer, The Philadelphia 1998 | Cole, Blue Window 1997 | Mad Forest 1996 | Flora, the Red Menace University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre MFA Program 2004 | The Cherry Orchard, Relatively Speaking, Sir Patient Fancy 2003 | All in the Timing, The Misanthrope, Twelfth Night 2002 | Heartbreak House, The Winter's Tale, Psychopathia Sexualis 2001 | Two Gentlemen of Verona, Six Characters in Search of An Author, Reckless 2000 | Three Sisters, Confusions, Macbeth 1999 | As You Like It, Getting Married 1998 | The Triumph of Love, The Winter's Tale 1997 | Caucasian Chalk Circle Sledgehammer Theatre of San Diego 2003 | Berzerkergäng North Coast Repertory Theatre of Solana Beach 2002 | The Miracle Worker Sierra Repertory Theatre of Sanora 2001 | Calamity Jane Diversionary Theatre of San Diego 2002 | 5th of July 2001 | Boys in the Band Center Repertory of Walnut Creek 2000 | Arsenic and Old Lace Playwright's Project of California 1995 | Jason's Mask, Santa Does a Mitzvah, Visions of the Woman Mankato State University 1994 | Oklahoma!, A Few Good Men 1993 | Burn This 1992 | Our Town Berkshire Theatre Festival 1993 | Air, Land and Sea, Missed Connections, A Quarter of Quirky Quests* Central Missouri Repertory 1993 | The Voyage 1992 | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Make-Up) Central Missouri State University 1992 | Talley and Son 1991 | The Glass Menagerie*, Children of a Lesser God*   * Assistant Designer

PORTFOLIO Click on an image to see more photos and renderings Macbeth Our Country's Good Heartbreak House Hair Two Gentlemen of Verona Oklahoma! Cole