Costume Assisting & Supervision
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I have been responsible for making and managing costume bibles, handling the budgets, schedules and to-do lists for the costume department of productions. Keeping track of and supervising the making, sourcing and breakdown process. Keeping up with the relevant paperwork throughout the production process and get-out.
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I am confident working with actors to take measurements and hold fitting sessions, attend to alterations and mends as needed, make bespoke patterns to fit actors and adjust premade patterns and garments.
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I have experience sourcing costumes; hiring from costume houses, pulling from in-house stock and shopping for new and secondhand items.
Designed and supervised appropriate and reversible alterations and maintenance, and handled the return process for costume hires.
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With experience dressing a variety of shows, I am confident managing dressing rooms; from set up through to get out, creating and running dresser tracks, doing bruise/stage make-up and hair, working in the wings, doing on-the-spot problem solving and anything else that the job may entail.