Honk Jr.

This was at the Audubon Arts program in New Haven, at the Neighborhood Music School.
Directed by Anne Tubis
Music Director Katherine
Costumes by Joanna
Ugly, Drake the dad, the ducklings, and Ida the mama
Many of these costumes were pulled or bought. I lucked out by finding the duckling dresses right away at Walmart. The mom, dad, and Ugly were all pulled/consignment store finds.


The cat originally was going to be a girl in a black leotard and skirt, but a boy was cast so the costume was changed to make him look more like a magician. He had a white oxford, red bow tie, black jacket, pants, hat and tail. All items were donated by various kids and myself.

The geese squadron. The director wanted the geese to have goggles which I had one of the kids paint during art time to match the camo pants. The scarves added to the aviator effect of the costume and the camouflage made them look like the squadron they were supposed to be part of. I tried to keep the colors in realm of geese colors, except for Barnacles the goose who was supposed to be a little different had blue camo pants. The leader of the geese I gave a camo shirt, and his wife is wearing the skirt with black tights to make her legs look more like a goose.

Froglets, Frog, and Ugly. I bought green T-shirts and during art showed the kids how to cut and tie them into dresses. They also had a lot of fun making the glittery green belts. I found the green leggings from a dance catalog and green pants for the boy. The head frog was supposed to be ugly so she had a tweed jacket over a green jumpsuit the theatre had. We tried covering hats I found at a tag sale with glitter, but these ones from Party City looked much nicer. Check out the frog's eyes, also from the party store!


The Blizzard people and swans. The Father Swan and Ugly's swan costume just needed a little altering, but had been used in a previous show. Some of the kids painted baseball hats for the swan beaks, as well as other animal beaks for the show. The white tutus were courtesy of Christian Academy of Dance and looked fabulous!

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Directed by Joy Harrell
Choreography by Gina Eller and Joanna Bair
Costumes by Joanna Bair

This was taken on photo day. Peter, Aslan, Susan, Edmund, the White Witch.
The children backstage as Kings and Queens of Narnia. The capes were cut from various crushed velvet and I added glittery gold fabric paint designs on them and gold cord for ties. I made the girl's crowns out of pearls and wire which turned out really nice. The dresses and Edmund's costume we lucked out finding from Halloween stores. Peter's costume we patterned after the Edmund one with a red tunic.

Dress Rehearsal bows. This is a good shot of the Witch's sleeves that my mother graciously attached white feather boas to the sleeves of this beautiful dress she made of a polyester satin. The snowflake crown we borrowed from the Eastern Nazarene College Theatre Department. Aslan's outfit was an African outfit we found laying around backstage and the headpiece we ordered off ebay. I was going for a Lion King effect with that.

I was partial to the Unicorn costume. I made that one without a pattern, so I was proud of myself. It was a sheer chiffon with ruffles. I added purple flowers for buttons and put the fabric and flowers around the unicorn mask as well. The mask was painted, glittery and also had some yarn from the tail coming down the back for a mane. I knitted scarves for the tails for the unicorn, beavers, and centaur. For most of the animals we used unitards with dress overlays. You can also sort of see on Susan her skirt which we made. Cast Photo

Father Christmas. This one we used a pattern for and my mom did most of the work on this one. It was red velvet and fur trim of the same fabric used for Mr. Tumnus' pants. We ordered the beard and wig from Lacey's wigs.

The Dwarf . The jacket I found at Marshalls and then fabric painted silver glitter on the edges to match the White Witch a little more. His beard and wig were also ordered from Lacey's.

Centaur. I found awesome embroidered suede fabric for these pants. The vest made her look a little more masculine and she ended up wearing a wig over her pony tail that made her hair look more like a mane. I let her keep those sparkley shoes that I had.

Fenris Ulf. I made all the wolves fur pants which they wore blue shirts and their masks with. I wanted the army to be in greys and blues.

White Stag. White feathers, glitter and some glittery pipe cleaners made this mask. The silver tunic over a white leotard and palazzo pants made for an effective, but simple costume.

This is what the birds looked like. I attached strips of fabric cut like feathers to t-shirts that I fabric painted feathers onto. This was an owl. There was also an eagle which you can see in photos below.

Mr. Beaver. I was so excited when I found this fabric, it gave the effect of wet fur! If you look closely you can see the tail I knitted and then wove wire through so it would keep its form.

The White Witch. My mom did the majority of the work on the dress from a pattern. I made the staff out of a dowl, christmas decorations, paint, glitter, fabric, ribbons, and jewels.

Edmund was a girl we wigged. Her outfit here was from Goodwill and H&M.

Mr. Tumnus. Similar concept to the wolf costumes. This fabric shed like crazy, but had an amazing texture. The scarf, shirt, and leggings were bought.

The beginning of the battle gives you an idea of the boys battle costumes as well as some of the animals.

The Witch's Army with the wolves down front. These were mostly costumes we ordered that looked creepy and went with the grey, white, blue, and black color scheme I wanted everyone affiliated with the witch to have on.

The Animals/Aslan Followers-unitards, fabric paint, dresses, masks, much more colorful

Zebras, Snow leopard, Tigers, Eagle, Leopard, Gazelles

Wood Nymphs. We ordered the peacock unitards and I made the dress overlays out of watery looking fabric with no pattern.

Little Things

I altered the majority of these one-shouldered black dresses for this summer theatre program in Bayside, Queens, NY. I did wardrobe for them for three summers. Mostly I organized and altered dance costumes. I did tie dye 25 shirts one summer for a number.

For a college beauty pageant with Disney themes--Lilo and Stitch.

Guys and Dolls, The Music Man

I worked on these dresses for the "Take Back Your Mink" number from Guys and Dolls at Eastern Nazarene College. Jenna Lourenco was the costume designer. You can check her designs out at jennalourenco.com

For The Music Man, I was costume assistant again. I worked on those sashes below, and pulled some items.
I also put together most of the hats for the Pickalittle ladies
The headress and costume I had made for Bocon! I spruced up and reused it for The Mayor's wife, Eulalie Shinn.

The Diary of Anne Frank

I was costume designer for this mainstage college production directed by my friend Stefanie.

Anne and Peter

The costumes for this show were pulled from our shop, Emerson College's costume shop, or bought at Goodwill.

The fur coat was borrowed.

Anne's opening outfit, courtesy of Emerson, with my star attached. I had to research exactly what the stars looked like, their size, what they said, and where they were worn.

Cast Photo

The director's concept was that everything in the past section of the show be in sepia tones like an old photograph.

This is in color and therefore from the opening scene where Mr. Frank finds Anne's diary.

This was actually towards the end of the show.

Mr. Dussel, Peter, Mr. Van Daan, Anne, Mrs. Van Daan, Margot

The entire cast.

Everyone needed pajamas, many of these came from Goodwill.

The Skin of Our Teeth and Alice In Wonderland

I was the Costume Assistant for these next two shows.

I worked on random hems and pieces of costumes for The Skin of Our Teeth.

Directed by Eunice Ferreira

costumes by Jenna Lourenco.
She had me make the mittens and footsie things out of fur. I also knitted parts of this sweater.
She had me stamp the leaves onto these vinyl dinosaur pants.

For Alice in Wonderland directed by Misti Wills, costumes by Christian Milik, I worked on a lot of the animal heads. Papier-maching and painting them. I cut out many duck feathers, wings, and other pieces of fabric for this show. I spray painted green balls to make the caterpillar's tail. This costumer was very creative and taught me a lot.

I did the Scrabble letters on the Mad Hatter's pants and the Backgammon, which you can't see on the March Hare. I also made the grey wig I am wearing.

Bocon

Bocon! by Lisa Loomer
Directed by Misti Wills
Costumes by Joanna Bair


This was the first show I designed. After being wardrobe assistant for Eastern Nazarene College's production of The Sound of Music I was then asked to design an entire show. I was a sophomore and not entirely sure of what to do, but I put my two years of sewing for 4-H fashion shows to use.

The Cast of Bocon! with the director. Everyone is in their opening peasant costumes. Many of these skirts and shirts I made from patterns. One or two of them, including that orange dress were pulled from our stock.

La Llorona and Miguel, with a peasant/tree behind them. La Llorona's dress was assembled by Jenna Lourenco who helped me out at the last minute. Miguel's pants we pulled and the shirt was altered and trim added.
The Voicepicker was one of my favorite costumes. I took a dress we had and added the metallic fabrics and yarn to make her look more like a sea creature.
The Calabrara/Skeleton was another one of my favorites. It was simply black leggings and a turtleneck that I fabric painted a skeleton onto.

You can see a bit more of La Llorona's train, I was pressed for time, and had a ton of help from our previous designer, Jenna, on this one. She took my design and a dress we had and ran with it. Amazing! Thank you!

Another one of the Voicepicker.

When I get to a scanner I will scan my sketches and photos of all the other characters. The wolf wore green pants my sister made, green jacket, and a pink vest I made. The voicekeeper had a collection of medals I pulled together with a cape and military boots.

Miguel's family of peasants wore peasant blouses and skirts of complimenting colors and his father (the only guy in the first photo shown above) had a similar style outfit with a hat my sister got in Mexico.