Degreed professional with over 20 years’ experience building costumes/costume crafts, props, and puppets for the entertainment industries (television, film, theatre, dance, and display

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Skills:

• In-shop costume production and on-set support

• Tailoring and patternmaking, including period dress

• Costume crafts:  millinery, hard goods

• Wig/hairpiece construction, styling, and maintenance (ventilating and wefting)

• Dying and ageing

• Models and miniatures

• Prop construction and set dressing

• Puppet and “creature” costume construction, maintenance, and performance

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Relevant Work Experience

 

FILM:                                                                              TELEVISION:

Please Don’t Destroy—specialty prop commission

Max—specialty props                                                   Outer Banks (Netflix)—specialty prop consultation

The Hunger Games—tailor, promotional shoot       A Christmas Love Story (Hallmark)—tailor, wardrobe

Leatherheads—on-set costumer                                Outcast (Cinemax)—stitching/tailoring

Evan Almighty—on-set costumer                              Homeland (Showtime)—tailor, dyer/ager, props assist

The New World—dyer/ager, on-set costumer          SuperBowl XXVI Halftime Show—wardrobe supervisor

Manassas:  End of Innocence (Nat’l Park Service)     Multiple commercials—tailor, stylist

            -assistant to the costume designer               Dinosaurs!—puppet builder

The Patriot—dyer/ager, on set costumer

The Net—specialty costume construction

The Muppet Christmas Carol—puppet builder

 

THEATRE/LIVE AND INTERACTIVE PROPERTIES:

Pro sports mascot construction/maintenance:  Sir Purr (Carolina Panthers, NFL), The Coyote (San Antonio Spurs, NBA), Hugo the Hornet (Charlotte Hornets, NBA)

Scarowinds Halloween Haunt—Props construction, 2019; Props Supervisor, 2018; Costume Supervisor, 2017

Avenue Q (European tour)—Puppet construction

Titanic:  The Movie on Tour—Costume/prop construction

Star Trek:  The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton—Costume/prop construction

Sesame Street Live! —Costume, puppet, and prop construction/maintenance

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Publications:

• Art In the Time of Corona (in production). Winston Salem NC: Prospective Press, 2024

• Images of America:  Historic Rosedale (in production). Mt. Pleasant, SC; Arcadia Publishing, 2024

• Introduction to Puppetry Arts.  New York and London; Focal Press/Taylor & Francis, 2019

• ‘Twas Halloween Evening:  A Tale of the Zombie Apocalypse. Winston-Salem NC, Prospective Press, 2019

• Creating the Character Costume:  Tools, Tips, and Talks with Top Costumers and Cosplayers.

New York and London; Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2016

• The Well-Dressed Puppet. New York and London; Focal Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015

• Haunted Theaters of the Carolinas. Atglen, PA; Schiffer Publishing, 2009.

 

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Education:

Professional Production Program/ The Juilliard School, NY

 

BA in Dramatic Arts/minor in Radio/TV/Motion Pictures

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

Additional Experience:

• Guinness World Record holder for the Largest Collection of Finger Puppets in 2022