Stage manager Carmelita Becnel reflects on the need to support mothers, women of color, and stage managers as creative collaborators in the rehearsal room. “I have to fight for creative, collaborative recognition as a woman. I have to fight for it as a mother. And I also have to fight for it as a person…
Tag: Costume Design
We’re getting closer!!!!
Actors Equity Association Releases Detailed List of New COVID Safety Protocols The protocols presume that all Equity members and everyone that interacts with the actors and stage managers has been fully vaccinated. by BWW News Desk Apr. 2, 2021 Today, Actors Equity Association is taking major steps to get performers working again. “Today, I’m pleased to announce…
Skin Tone Formulas
Looking to match to a skin tone? Rit and Ben Nye have developed a library of color formulas for cotton and nylon to match most skin tones. In the guide there are tips for dying, powder to liquid conversion, scaling for dying, and both cotton and nylon formulas. All formulas were developed in partnership with…
Life Is a Dream concept collage
I’ve always been an active dreamer. I don’t mean visions for my future, but actual dreams at night. My dreams have always been in a strange narrative style, with the depth and complexity of a movie. I see details, textures, composed shots and wish I had the time to record them in the same detail…
Oh, how I miss you so!
Western Costume. I suppose that there are spaces that people imagine hold all of the answers to a multitude of questions… alien landings, where the Holy Grail is stored, the street address that Elvis currently lives on… But for me, the space where my historical imagination made manifest is Western Costume.
Couldn’t we all use a chatelaine?
I… CAN explain… Why I hear the name of this item from fashion history and, instead, this voice / song swells in my mind palace… Please know that I am working to keep my tendency to digress at a minimum, but also working to keep my tendency to “K.D. Lang free associate” to a minimum…
Redux with The Favourite and Sandy Powell
Museum reproduction or service to the script? Pardon????? I’m confused… I thought this post was about the costumes in this movie. This is neither bait and switch, nor loquacious speech that you have to wade through before you get to the damn recipe. (We’ve been there too often, right?) Bear with me, because I do…
How could we possibly look away, Cynthia? The costume design for A Series of Unfortunate Events.
First…I have to get this out of the way. Deep breaths, the blowing of the nose, the wiping of the eyes and the splash of cold water on the face. (Season 3 is the final season of A Series of Unfortunate Events.) Ok. I’ve composed myself. (Sob!) Now back to work. Three D’s. De-lightful De-licious…
A Tale of Donations
So often the tale of donations in a costume shop is the tale of sadness. Throughout the years I’ve gotten so many donations from friends and family of clothing and accessories belonging to a loved one recently passed. Universally, these friends and family donate to extend the life of these garments and for them to…
ANNALIESE M. BAKER 