Monday, April 2, 2012

Congratulations to Toni-Leslie James! and to her students extrordinaire!!

next time You see Ms James be sure to ask "Been nominated for a Lortel lately?"

YES! 

Toni-Leslie James has been nominated for  the 2012 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in off-Broadway productions:

Outstanding Costume Design
ESosa, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Toni-Leslie James, Milk Like Sugar
William Ivey Long, The School For Lies
Ilona Somogyi, Maple and Vine
Catherine Zuber, Death Takes a Holiday

Congrats Toni!

We are extremely proud of you!

For more information go HERE

In the meantime check out what our Costume majors and alumni are doing:

Chris Mueller, MFA 2008 – USA Local 829 NY gained while Asst. Costume Designer
on Finian’s Rainbow at NY City Center and Broadway. Asst. Designer, The Bluest Eye, Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT, The Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT 2008. Asst. Designer, A Civil War Christmas, The Long Wharf Theatre, 2008. Currently Costume Shop Manager and Head Designer for Birmingham Children’s Theatre.

Keenan Quander, MFA 2010 - Asst. Designer and Floor Manager at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC. October-March 2011-12. Designer the Hanger Theatre.
Ithaca, NY 2010. Designer Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn 2010-2011. Honorable Mention Grad. Design SETC 2010. Currently represented by my former agent, Cheryl E Andrews & Associates LLC.

Josh Quinn, MFA 2012 (awaiting Thesis) - Asst. Designer at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC. April-June 2012. Asst. Costume Shop Manager for The Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2012. Designer, Metamorphosis, The Warehouse Theatre Greenville, SC. 2011. Designer, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC. Asst. Designer, Pipe Dream, NY City Center, March 2012. Asst. Designer, Cotton Club Parade, NY City Center, November 2011. Asst. Designer, Milk Like Sugar, Playwrights Horizons, NYC, October 2011 and La Jolla
Playhouse, September 2011. Shopper, Finian’s Rainbow, Broadway 2009. Asst. Designer, Bell, Book & Candle, Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY, 2009.
Asst. Designer, Juno, NY City Center, November 2008. Currently represented by my former agent, Cheryl E Andrews & Associates LLC. 1st Place Regional KCACTF 2011,
2nd Place Nat’l. KCACTF, 2nd Place Graduate SETC 2011.

J. Theresa Bush, MFA 2013 – The first graduate student ever to be hired has the Costume Shop Manager for The Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2012. Ever!!!
Designer The Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC. 2013 (she gets to pick her show!). Winner of the SETC Ready To Work Award 2012 awarded a professional design position by The Warehouse Theatre, Honorable Mention Grad Design, SETC 2012 & 2011. The Richmond Theater Critics Circle Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design 2011.

Isabella Tavares de Melo, MFA 2014 – Designer, A Soldier’s Tale, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, 2012.

Cailin Anderson
, BFA 2009 – Member of IATSE Local 764 NY gained while working on Finian’s Rainbow Broadway. Asst. Wardrobe Supervisor, Once, Broadway 2012.
Asst. Wardrobe Supervisor, Hair, National Tour 2011. Wardrobe Supervisor, Lysistrata Jones, New York Theatre Workshop, NYC 2011. Wardrobe, A Normal Heart, Broadway 2011. Wardrobe, The Scottsboro Boys, Broadway 2010. Wardrobe Supervisor, The Scottsboro Boys, Vineyard Theatre, 2010. A BFA student on her 4th Broadway show in less than 3 years.

Rebecca Willett
, BFA 2010 - Asst. Designer, Cotton Club Parade, NY City Center, November 2011. Wardrobe Staff Cap21, NYC, 2012. Currently wardrobe staff for The
Hurt Village, Signature Theatre, NYC 2012.

Adrian Boyes,
BFA 2011 – Wardrobe staff for the Public Theatre in NYC. Currently employed by Parsons Meers Ltd, one of NYC’s premiere costume shops.

Elizabeth Ensminger, BFA 2012 – Working in NYC as I type as Asst. Wig/Costumes on Pipe Dream, NY City Center, March 2012. Wardrobe, The Lion King National Tour, Richmond, VA 2012. Wardrobe, Wicked, Richmond, VA 2011.

Jessica Goldman, BFA 2012 - Asst. Design on Pipe Dream, NY City Center, March 2012. Asst. Costume Design, The Scottsboro Boys, The Old Globe, San Diego, CA 2012.

Hannah Goldman,
BFA 2012 – Asst. Design, Macbeth 1969, The Long Wharf Theatre Company, February 2012.

Nicole Slaven, BFA 2012 – Intern, The Williamston Theatre Festival 2011. Intern, The Santa Fe Opera, 2012. Honorable Mention in Undergrad Costume Design SETC
2012.

Jennifer O’Donnell, BFA 2012 – Asst. Design, A Trip to Bountiful, The Cleveland Playhouse, 2011 and The Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD 2011. The Shenandoah Summer Music Festival, 2011. Virginia Opera 2010.

Matt Armentrout,
BFA 2013 – Wig Supervisor, Amazing Grace: A New Musical, Goodspeed Opera House, East Chatam, CT. Wig Supervisor on Pipe Dream, NY City Center, March 2012. Wig Supervisor, Cotton Club Parade, NY City Center, November 2011. Wig Crew, Wicked, Richmond, VA 2011. Intern, The Williamston Theatre Festival 2011. Third Place Crafts Award, SETC 2011. This is a junior with more professional credits than college credits.

Gloria Kim, BFA 2013 - Asst. Design, Good Goods, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT 2012. This talented student showed her portfolio along side
1st & 2nd year students at The Yale School of Drama, and they’re still reeling! She later had an private portfolio review with Professor Ilona Somogyi, who told her
that she would get into ANY grad school of her choice including Yale School of Drama. Intern, The Williamston Theatre Festival 2012.

Frances Ritter
, BFA 2013 – Draper, Heritage Theatre Company 2011. First Place Winner in costume construction SETC 2012. Virginia Opera 2011.

Virginia Varland, BFA 2013 – Costume Designer, BigFork Summer Playhouse, Bigfork, MT. Third Place Undergrad Costume Design SETC 2012.

Charles Umhau, BFA 2014 - Asst. Design, Fly, The Ford’s Theatre Washington, DC. September 2012.

Jared Elton, BFA 2014 - Wardrobe, The Lion King National Tour, Richmond, VA 2012.

Michael Bertoni,
BFA 2014 – Wardrobe, The Lion King National Tour, Richmond, VA 2012.
Jasmine Hammond, BFA 2014 – Wardrobe, The Lion King National Tour, Richmond, VA 2012.

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