Costume Technician

Crafts and Wigs




Capstone Project
UNC Chapel Hill
Spring 2026
Designed by J. Howell Russell
Components:
Boned bodysuit with engineered embroidery
Quilted stretch leggings
"Stained glass" embroidery
Spiral steel wing frames
Silk chiffon painted wings using Jacquard water-based resist and acid dyes
Fosshape tiara with wire antennas and additional painted wings




Macbeth
Playmakers Repertory Company
Spring 2026
Role: Craft Supervisor and Dye Lead
Director: Tracy Bersley
Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic
Set Designer: Alexis Distler
Lighting Designer: Amith Chandrashaker
Photographer: Huth Photos
Pieces:
The Weird Sisters dresses and gloves -- dyed using shibori and gradient techniques
The Weird Sisters crowns -- millinery wire frames with fake twigs stitched on
Lady Macbeth gradient dress
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth crowns -- wired buckram bases with 3d modeled and painted spikes stitched on
Lady Macbeth skeletal necklace -- gold-foiled 3-4oz leather
Handmaiden's armor -- asymmetrical Phifertex base with a snake-print embossed chrome-tanned leather




The Tempest
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Summer 2025
Role: Craft Supervisor
Director: Kevin Rich
Costume Designer: Sarah Zinn
Set Designer: Matthew S. Crane
Lighting Designer: Katie Gruenhagen
Photographer: Jennifer Koskinen
Pieces:
Dyed yardage for Ariel's four costume pieces -- combination of shibori and ice-dye techniques using fiber reactive dyes
Four ice-dyed purchased ensemble costumes with separate color palettes
Prospera arm base -- Fosshape base wrapped with lightweight metallic leather and anchored to a skin-tone stretch mesh sleeve
20-yards of scenic fabric




Little Shop of Horrors
Playmakers Repertory Company
Spring 2025
Role: Craft Supervisor
Dyer/Painter: Rachel Pollock
Director: Jeffrey Meanza
Costume Designer: Grier Coleman
Set Designer: Regina Garcia
Lighting Designer: Charlie Morrison
Photographer: Huth Photo
Pieces:
Modification and repair of rental gas mask and puppets
Removable custom dentist patch
Skin-tone color matching
Assistance on structure of Audrey II flower backpack




Flower Fascinator
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Fall 2024
Wired baby buckram petals bound with buckram bias tape. Painted using textile paints and a Preval paint sprayer. Anchored to a Fosshape dome and plastic headband.




Sinamay Blocked Hat With Straw Braid
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Fall 2024
1880s Historical Hat
Straw braid stitched to a blocked sinamay crown and a flat-patterned brim. Decorated with a pleated bias underbrim, custom pleated trim, and vintage silk flowers.




Class Project -- Millinery and Fabric Painting
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Fall 2024
1910 Rendering by J. Howell Russell
Painted silk wings and custom "stained glass" embroidery. Attached to a Fosshape tiara with wire butterflies.




Class Project -- Masks and Armor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Spring 2024
Laser-cut vegetable-tanned leather armor based on Michele Clapton's design for Sansa Stark's armor from Game of Thrones Season 8. Draped using CLO3D. Embossing designed using Adobe Illustrator.
Base of the armor is made from black Phifertex mesh reinforced with 1/4" and 1/2" rigilene. Leather spines are riveted to the base.
See class presentation for this project here.




Class Project -- Masks and Armor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Spring 2024
Owl mask made from EVA foam, foam clay, and black buckram.




Class Project -- Digital Technology
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Spring 2024
Butterfly embroidery design tests for third-year capstone. Designed in Adobe Illustrator.




Class Project -- Hand Props
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Fall 2023
Victorian-inspired mourning parasol.




Class and Personal Projects
Wig styling
Red Lace-front "Sansa Stark" Wig -- ventilated widows peak, curl set, and styled
Brown 1940s Style Wig
Pink Drag Wig
Brown "Alicent Hightower" Wig




Class Project
University of Alabama
Spring 2022
Ombre-Dyed tutu net
