The Addams Family

For The Addams Family, I brought as much originality to the show as possible, while still remaining true to the iconic Addams family look. I worked closely with each actor who played an ancestor to create a character and costume that was unique to their vision.

Random Acts of Silliness: Thicket Theatre

My family worked together to create the fairy structure, Thicket Theater, for the 2023 Random Acts of Silliness annual Bumblewood Fairy Village. We staged a fairy version of the play A Midsummer Nights' Dream, and I was responsible for creating the costumes.

Titania

Hermia

Cobweb

Nick Bottom

Thicket Theatre

mainstage

dressing room

ticket booth

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks: The Three Musketeers

My second apprenticeship with Montana Shakespeare in the Park was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the entire costume design process: from initial sketches, character backstories, budgets, color choices, decision-making regarding whether to buy or build costumes, ways to make costumes actor-proof and more.

The Giver

For The Giver I sought to balance the need to support the individual characters' personalities while keeping them true to the bland uniformity of that world. For example, Jonas wears a striped tunic to help separate him from the crowd without introducing color.

Montana Shakespeare in the Schools: Macbeth

Macbeth & the Three Witches

My apprenticeship with Montana Shakespeare in the Schools was a wonderful opportunity to build on my earlier experience with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Because the costume design team was smaller for the production of Macbeth, I had the opportunity to do more of the work: from experimenting with the witch masks, pulling costumes from the vault, discussing color choices, making alterations, helping to make costumes actor-proof and more. I learned so much.

Ross & Lady Macduff

Lady Macbeth

King Duncan

Malcolm

The Prom

The Prom was a chance for me to use as much color and sparkle as possible. For these costumes, I tapped into the dramatic, high-energy world of teenagers and Broadway stars.

Assassins

The Assassins production required a lot of research because I was creating costumes for an actor who was representing a real person.

The costumes had to reflect the real people the characters were based on as well as making the costumes as historically accurate as possible. The costumes provided the audience with an intuitive way to keep the characters' place in history clear in the face of the interwoven timeline of the play.

In collaboration with the set and lighting designers, I came up with an overall color story of "muted Americana." It helped express the underlying melancholy of the characters' whose American Dream has gone wrong.

The Balladeer

The Proprietor

Samuel Byck

John Hinckley, Jr.

Charles Guiteau

The 39 Steps

For 39 Steps, I created tea-stained, cigar-smoked-hazed costumes for this delightful murder-mystery caper set in the 1930s.

I wanted the costumes to look reasonable and appropriate while including subtle details that takes them to the edge of over-the-top without going too far. For example, on the train scene I put the salesman in oversized coats with bell sleeves.

It was vital that the costumes help the audience suspend their disbelief while simultaneously feeling as if they were in on the joke.

The palette of the costumes added to the feeling that the audience was watching a black-and-white film.

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks: King Lear

My apprenticeship with Montana Shakespeare in the Park was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the entire costume design process: from initial sketches, character backstories, budgets, color choices, decision-making regarding whether to buy or build costumes, ways to make costumes actor-proof and more.

assembled the corset

assembled the waist cincher

assembled the vest

tambour beaded the green collar

created the floral crouching on the jacket lapels

The Sound of Music

The most important task I had for this production was to create the "curtain" costumes. I created a concept and design, selected the fabric, sewed the costumes and made alterations on my own.

Together with the artistic director, we decided to create a matching skirt for Maria as a way to show that she was on the same "team" as the children.

I also designed and managed costumes for the show.

Liesl, Louisa, Brigitta

Kurt

Maria

Marta

Friedrich

Gretl

Random Acts of Silliness

I was commissioned to create 30 silly monster hats for the nonprofit, Random Acts of Silliness, for supporters to wear as they marched in the 2022 Sweet Pea Festival parade.

Black Jumpsuit

Corsets

I enjoy making custom corsets.

Dresses

In 2018, I found a dress pattern book brimming with great ideas. By the time I had the skills to make the dresses, I had outgrown the patterns! As a result, I decided to draft the patterns in my new size and make garments exactly the way I wanted them.

These dresses are a unique variation on the original, basic pattern I first fell in love with. I ended up exploring this pattern widely: I changed the sleeve styles, hem lengths, collars, gathers, pleats, trims. I dyed some of the fabric to make them the precise hue I had in mind.