Wigging Out

Hairspray Wigs and makeup are a speciality of their own. If you are lucky enough to be working for a theatre who has a wig and makeup artist than you can thank your lucky stars. But if you are working in a smaller theatre as a free lance designer or at a school you will

Working With Directors

Working with a director is infinitely more varied and in many ways more difficult than working with actors. All actors are interested in what they will be wearing and almost all will talk about their characters for as long as anyone can stand it. Directors come in many more varieties. Some good directors will be

Working With Actors

Working with actors is the most fun you can have in theatre. They are such a wonderful, courageous, interesting, and sometimes maddening group of people. I have infinite respect and admiration for what they do and I will go to bat for them every chance I get. There is no amount of care, time and

blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

The book blink, the Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell provides an interesting window into what we are doing as costume designers. The thesis of the book is that we all make split second decisions about other people based on what we see and how we interpret it. It is something that is

Analyzing the Script

“But a stage costume has an added significance in the theatre in that it is created to enhance the particular quality of a special occasion. It is designed for a particular character in a particular scene in a particular play – and accordingly it is an organic and necessary part of the drama in which

The Costume Designer’s Role

The Role of the Costume Designer