Theatre (6)

Paradise Untapped

Recently, at the theatre I volunteer at, I was asked to do costumes for a staged reading of Paradise Untapped— a new play written by Jack Wolfram and directed by Catherine Blake Smith. Synopsis from Theatre Puget Sound: "Deborah Milton and Mary Shelley entered our…

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Witches and Campers and Ghosts, Oh My!

I'm going to breeze past these last four, because to be honest, I'm tired of writing about it 😅 For this costume, I continued my theme of making a custom mask. I chose to center this character's theme around ravens/crows. Crows are very common in…

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Siren's Song

When you enter the house of the theatre, the seats are gone—replaced by the jagged rocks in a hauntingly beautiful lake. Among the kelp, which dances in a gentle current, a curious Siren stalks. When a strangely familiar melody begins to play, it emerges—hormonizing as…

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You've Got a Bat in the Cave

As you make your way through the forest, past the witch's hovel and siren's cove, you suddenly find yourself in a strange cave with glowing stalactites and stalagmites. You hear clicks and strange gutteral whines—something lurks within, and it doesn't want you to get close...

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Masquerading

Very early on in my costume design for the haunted house, I decided I wanted all of the characters to wear masks. Since I was working with a very limited budget, I figured it was an easy way to make all of the characters look…

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Leave Only Footprints

Welp, I've finally done it. I've costumed my first ever theatre production. You may applaud. And now I've come to tell you all about it. But not all at once! Gotta dole it out slowly to keep you coming back (all 5 of you—hi mom…

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