Rapunzel

The Baker and His Wife

Dragons and the Prince

Rapunzel


The Witch

The Cast

The Comedy of Errors

Fall 2013
This show used projections on the screen that updated the audience on various things throughout the show to help them understand what was going on better.
The concept was based off the new iphone colors and the setting was a sort of Wall Street techie world.  I went with geek chic and had fun with the bright colors.

 

The Dromios

Luciana and an Antipholus

 

 

Merchant, Angelo/a, the other Antipholus twin

The Abbess nun habit I made

Pinch is an academic so we went for a crazy schoolteacher/Harry Potter look, she also had a minion who wanted to be just like her, and dressed like her...

Adriana and Luciana

The past couple years of costumes at Charis Performing Arts.
 These aren't even half of the shows, but it's something for the moment.

The main characters in the Snow Queen (Fall 2012)

from L to R:  Angel, Raven(minus mask), angel, princess, Gerda, Snow Queen, Kai, Little Robber Girl, Grandma (minus grey hair), and snowflake.  All costumes were from Goodwill, pulled or borrowed.

Esther, King Xerxes, Malthace, and Haman from For Such a Time as This: the Story of Esther. (Spring 2013)

 

Queen Vashti and attendants from For Such a Time as This.  These were leotards with skirts and sleeves sewn on and the kids placed their own jewels and ribbons on their costumes. 

 

 

Gypsy, Everyman, and Clown from a circus version of Everyman (Spring 2012)

A ballerina, strong man(woman), clowns, and juggler in Everyman in the Circus of Life

Little Women we borrowed amazing costumes from the Kids Connection in Clinton. (Fall 2011)

 

 

 

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

The Actors all played various children or parents in Terezin during World War 2
Dancers were butterflies throughout the story
The wedding
The family, brother, sister, mother, father, and aunt
School teacher Irena and student Raja
Another play set in the 1940s during World War 2

As You Like It

Touchstone and Audrey had a touch of all the colors in the rainbow as part of the concept. I used all different colors of fabric paint to get the camoflague we were going for, for Touchstone.
The six lovers all wore contrasting colors. Shown here were Silvius and Phebe in the country plaid red and green. Rosalind in her country plaid purple and Orlando in contrasting yellow.
Jacques was the darkest of the characters wearing black camo while the rest of the Duke's men wore greens that blended great with the background, which we wanted.
Full cast photo where you can sort of see the contrast of the city people wearing black to the country people in their color and plaids.
the wedding dresses. Phebe in the simple country outfit, Celia's was the most fancy, while Audrey's had flowers and Rosalinds was just plain elegant. I did lots of alterations on the gowns.

This was a modern day setting where the country people who were for the one duke wore camoflague while the city people for Duke Ferdinand wore black. The wrestling match had cheerleaders that wore Team Charles shirts I painted.

Little Cosette and Father Christmas

Village Children
Juggler, Madame Thenardier, Clown, Person in the Inn
Village Dancers
Toy Dolls

The Toy Vendors--the aprons came off and they became Eponine and Azelma
Madame Thenardier and Cosette
The Juggler and the Clown
Village Dancers
Toy Doll Dancers


These were all costumes that the actors had to be able to dance in, so they were made more like dance costumes. I bought leotards and sewed the skirts and added embellishments.

2009 costumes

The above photos are from The Match Girl's Gift: A Christmas Story. I designed and my mother built the three girl's dresses. Two fancy ones and the Match Girl's poor ones. The mother, father, streetchildren, and grandmother costumes were borrowed but fit the Victorian time period the play was set in. The chimney sweep and dance costumes I designed and pieced together to be flames and snowflakes.





I designed The Lead Girl and her friend's costumes for a ballet of Andrew Byrd's The Red Shoes.
These were bought leotards that had various forms of lace and eyelet sewn to them. Some of the lace came directly from our director's mother who bought it in the Ukraine.
The other dance costumes I picked out.