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Costume Designs for Theatre, Diablo Valley College

Peter and the Starcatcher, Diablo Valley College, 2019

  • Slank with a stuffed parrot and temporary artificial bird poop added to coat.
Temporary additions to an existing British military coat to become Lord Aster’s Starcatcher Coat
Stash takes the Starcatcher Coat
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo
  • Photo by Ed Trujillo

Mermaids!
Mermaid bras that Light up!

Were you a mermaid? I made a mermaid poster on Shutterfly that you may have seen in my office door:

Mermaid Poster at Shutterfly

https://link.shutterfly.com/e/If7lPcZk65

Costume Designs for Theatre, Diablo Valley College

Seussical, Diablo Valley College, 2019

First Test of Horton’s Ears
  • JoJo
  • Horton
  • Gertrude McFuzz
  • Yertle the Turtle
  • Sour Kangaroo
  • Bird Girls
  • Mayzie LaBird
  • Mayzie's Tail
  • JoJo & Cadets
  • General Genghis Khan Schmidt
  • Hunches
  • Mr & Mrs Mayor
Renderings
Commercial
Whos and Hunches
  • The cat/dog performing tricks with a hoop
  • is made from a mouse hat from Alice in Wonderland, a circus girl dress from an unknown show and a unitard.
  • the underlying body suit of the woolf from Into the Woods is dressed up with bright shorts as the weight lifter.
  • The shorts look to “Rocky”, so they are swapped for gym shorts from Footloose, with a M for McGurkus to hide the Bomont High logo.
  • So we use gym shorts from Footloose, with an “M” for mcGurcus to hide the Bomont logo.
  • The mime has the head of the Caterpillar and the feet of the Frog-Footman from Alice plus donated furry-octopus hands.
  • She practiced jumping like a frog, and did a good mime in an invisible box routine.
  • And did a great mime-in-a-box routine.
  • The juggler wore a clown nose on the beak of the pigeon from Alice, and a pop-up hat from the magical transforming costume collection
  • He also wears the wings of the pigeon from Alice, and one of the seven pairs of caterpillar pants from the same show.
  • A lucky find of clown shoes at a thrift store.
  • And a clown tie from 99c Only store.
  • And the schtick is, he can’t catch his balls.
Assembling Circus McGurckus Freak Hybrid Animals out of odd bits of stock
Mayzie La Bird Tail made by Morgan Gassman
  • Wickersham Brothers pants made by Ashleigh LaMarre
  • Gertrude McFuzz