There's an excellent article in the current issue of Piecework magazine (Jan/Feb 2010) by Elizabeth Cobbe entitled, "Knitting for the Stage," on everything from knitted cord "chainmail" to quick-rigging knitwear closures, including a brief mention of my crocheted 1970s vest for last season's Well! It even includes a pattern for a knitted "chainmail ( Read more... )

USITT 2010

Are you planning on attending USITT's 2010 National Conference? This is a great year to go, being USITT's 50th anniversary! We'll be there (meaning, several of us from the UNC-CH Costume Production MFA program), and there are a few special events I want to give advance notice on, in which we'll be participating ( Read more... )

A quick, quick, superquick post on this New Year's Eve to congratulate ALL the Triangle theatres honored in the Independent's Best of Live Theatre 2009 List. So many honors for UNC grant initiatives and PlayMakers productions, go us! But we haven't swept it, which isn't a tarnish--there's so much good theatre in the area that competition is stiff ( Read more... )

The title of this post sounds like a lost Jane Austen novel. Ha!

First, the press. We've got a bit of local media attention over our USITT Southeast awards--there's a cool article on the College of Arts and Sciences webpage. So, yay for that.

And, i'm on deck this week over at nicknickleby, where you can read about the beginnings of making a wacky wire-frame ( Read more... )

Milliner of the Month! That's me!

HATalk magazine is an e-zine published monthly by the fine folks at How2Hats.com, also known for their excellent selection of e-books on millinery techniques. The magazine contains several how-to articles in each issue on various millinery tips and tricks, a prize giveaway, a "hat of the month" focus, and the " ( Read more... )

It's another week at the helm of nicknickleby for me, so check out my piece on the Victorian dual-trade of milliner-prostitute. (I'm glad those skills are no longer linked to one another!)

I've spent the day working on an article i'm co-authoring for the USITT newsletter Sightlines on the recent symposium, and i thought it'd be a good time to mention some of ( Read more... )

Recall that i spent a part of my summer working in NYC for the costume production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on the Dragon for the upcoming Broadway show, Shrek: the Musical, which has recently run in a regional premiere in Seattle. The official website has a few production pictures on it, though none of anything i worked on. Parsons did Farquaad's ( Read more... )

Remember my coverage of the USITT Costume Symposium on Fabric Modification, hosted at the beginning of August here in the Department of Dramatic Art and PRC facilites at UNC-Chapel Hill?

Looks like one of my photos (featuring the PlayMakers logo, no less) is featured on the cover of the September issue of Sightlines, the USITT newsletter ( Read more... )

Want a sneak-peek into what i've been doing for the past two months? There's a "trailer" up on YouTube of scenes from PlayMakers' forthcoming show, The Little Prince, opening tonight at the Paul Green Theatre on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill:

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Also, a podcast interview from NPR with director Tom Quaintance and performers Lesley Shires and Joy ( Read more... )

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is said to be the only theatre company in the world that opens six plays in six days (technically, seven, if you count our Greenshow). We just hit our first round of dress rehearsals so things will be crazy for the next couple of weeks. In lieu of a project post or the usual fare, all i got here is some links and a ( Read more... )