Next up in my series of disrupting the paper project model- a collaboration with the Dept. of Musical Theatre on their New Works...

Here we are, deep in to winter term- I am continuing to reconsider what skills to practice in an advanced costume design class. The way I...

Bernarda Alba opened a couple of weeks ago and it was so wonderful to be back in the theatre. The content is challenging, but the...

I'm delighted to be immersed in the process of designing Bernarda Alba, musical by Michael John LaChiusa based on the Lorca play. While...

It’s hard to believe another school year is about to start. I want to get back to writing about process after sharing some news: After 1...

This weekend was a gift. After a semester with a very heavy administrative lift and not enough art I volunteered to be backstage to help...

Costume Rendering for Santa Fe Opera, Die Fledermaus 2017 The craziest thing happened this week that was such a delightful surprise. A little back story: At the beginning of the pandemic, the Costume Industry Coalition , led by Brian Blythe, was born as a way to support NY based makers and artisans that are part of the theatrical ecosystem. So many highly gifted technicians and artisans are independent contractors or small businesses and every one of them, like any small busi

Things I've missed: the power of the 5 minute check-in & in person meetings. How much subtler communication and community building has...

Classroom shift to process, not result. A partner to the previous “Deadline” post. So much of my own education involved projects with a...

Hard to write a couple of times a month when burn-out is high, the sands are shifting, and we are just so damned tired of this pandemic....

We had such a good time building a community of costume educators last, we decided to have another workshop this year! In this year's...

When I was in grad school I had this big "ah-ha" moment. I didn't really understand how to draw a suit collar & lapel until I drafted and...

After nearly two years, there is a virtual public gallery synthesizing the radial symmetry prompt developed during my Winter 2019...

And it's a doozy! For this semester of remote learning I created 45 demonstration videos (a couple have been shared here on the blog). I...

For the last two weeks, I've participated in two workshops with the Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. The first workshop,...

As part of the Design Rendering course I teach, one of the last assignments before students start their final projects is a costume...

Pretty small group of folks who read these posts, but I want to use this space to amplify the work of the Costume Industry Coalition....

Between all the meetings, teaching that takes twice as long, fires to put out, worry for the industry, and worry for the future, I've...

Back in May, Chloe Chapin & I co-led a 4 day workshop on Costume History Pedagogy. One participant, Michelle Souza, wrote a lovely...

This pandemic is taking its toll on everything. I have no idea what things will be like on the other side of this, but it will be...