UC Irvine Costume Design Alums 2016
SERA BOURGEAU, 2016 MFA New York Visit her website Costume Production Assistant TV, STARZ Season 4 Power 2016 Costume Designer, NY Musical Theater Festival, Nickel Mines 2016 Assistant Costume Designer Alice Chan, La Jolla Playhouse, 2015
JOJO SIU, 2016 MFA Los Angeles Visit her website and IMDB Profile Costume Supervisor Film, Inner Child 2016 Assistant Costume Designer, Film, Hallow’s Eve 2014 Wardrobe Intern, Away from Here, Away from Here, 2014
JULIE CARR, 2015 MFA Los Angeles Visit her website and IMDB Profile Costume Design Assistant, Los Angeles Opera, 2016 – current Costume Design Assistant, South Coast Repertory, 2015 Costume Production Assistant TV, Castle, ABC Studios 2015 Assistant Intern/PA, TV Beautiful and Twisted, Lifetime 2014 Intern, TV Academy, Los Angeles, 2014 Costumer, United American Costume 2014
GWYN CONAWAY-BENNISON 2015 MFA Los Angeles Visit her website, IMDB and Deviant Art Profiles On Set Supervisor, Happily Never After Pixel Channel 2016 Costume Designer, Feature Film, Bullitt County 2016 Designer, Video Game, Lacuna, 2016 Costume Designer, Little Shop of Horrors, 2015 Assistant Costume Designer, The Tempest, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2014
KAITLYN KAUFMAN, 2015 MFA Los Angeles Visit her website Costume Designer, Brimmer Street Theater 2016 Assistant Costume Designer, A Midsummer Nights Dream, South Coast Repertory 2016 Crafts Artisan, South Coast Repertory, 2016 Costume Designer,Feature Film City of Dogs, 2015
LESLIE STAMOOLIS, 2013 MFA Spokane, Washingon Visit her website Professor of Costume Design, Gonzaga University, 2014- current Costume Designer, Jesus Christ Superstar, Gonzaga University 2015 Costume Designer, Much Ado About Nothing, Gonzaga University 2014 Costumer Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater, 2013
JOE KUCHARSKI, 2012 MFA Los Angeles Visit his website at http://kucharskidesigns.com/ Disney Imagineer, Marvel Characters 2016 – current Costume Designer, Re-Animator, The Musical Steve Allen Theater, 2011, Hayworth Theater, LA 2012, NY New Musical Festival 2012, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2012 Appointed Assistant Professor, Costume Design, Cedarville University, 2021 Assistant Costume Designer, Universal Studios Orlando, Parade Costumes 2012 Assistant Costume Designer/Crafts Artist, Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan National Tour, 2011 Page 1
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REBECCA MEREDITH, 2012 MFA Sonora, CA Visit her profile on IMDB.com Resident Costume Designer, Regional Theater Sierra Repertory Theatre, 2016- now Costume Designer, There Goes the Bride, Sierra Repertory Theatre 2012 Assistant Costume Designer Film Short How to Get to Candybar 2011 Costume Designer, Film Short To Live 2011 Costume Designer Film, Mirror Image 2011
AMANDA AVILA, 2011 BA COSTUME DESIGN HONORS Los Angeles Visit her website at http://www.acaviladesigns.com/ Costumer, Disney Entertainment Costuming, 2012- now Crafts Artisan, South Coast Repertory Theatre, 2012 Costume Designer, Lions Among Men, short film, Mirage Entertainment, 2010 Costumer, film short How to Get to Candybar, Manhattan Film Festival, Monaco Charity Film Festival, Best Comedy Award- Cape Fear Film Festival, 2011
MELODY HALL BROCIOUS, 2011 New Jersey Visit her website at http://mbrocious.wordpress.com/about/ Costume Designer, Marisol, Stella Adler Studio LA, 2012 Assistant Costume Designer, A Trip to Bountiful, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2011 Assistant Costume Designer, How the World Began, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2011 Costume Crafts, The Vibrator Play, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2010 Assistant Costume Designer, Three Days of Rain, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2011
CAITLIN CISEK, 2011 MFA New York Visit her website at http://caitlincisek1.wordpress.com/ Costume Designer, Passion Play and The Mousetrap, Santa Rosa CA Repertory Theater, 2012 Costume Designer, Hip Hop Misanthrope, Hudson Guild Theater, NY, 2012 Costume Designer, Iphegenia in Tauris, Stella Adler Studio, NY 2012 Costume Designer, Imagining Heschel, Stella Adler Studio, NY 2012 Costume Designer, The Crucible, Stella Adler Studio, NY 2012 Wardrobe Supervisor, The Select, New York Theater Workshop, 2011 Costume Designer, Henry V, New York Classical Theater, 2010
MEGAN GURDINE, 2010 MFA Visit her website at http://mgurdinedesign.wordpress.com/ Costume Designer, Cryptogram, Seattle Public Theater, 2011 Costume Designer, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Arts West, Seattle 2011 Costume Designer, King Lear, Orange County Shakespeare, 2010 Costume Shopper/ Assistant Designer, Leap of Faith, Center Theater Group, 2010
JESSICA MUELLER, 2009 MFA Nashville, TN Professor of Costume Design, Belmont University 2013- current Costume Designer, Little Shop of Horrors, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, 2012 Film/TV union local 705 Motion Picture Costumers, United American Costumes, 2010 Appointed Assistant Professor, Costume Design, Belmont College, 2011 Costume Designer, Christmas at Belmont, Nashville Public Television, 2011
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ALETHIA MOORE-DELMONACO, 2009 MFA Los Angeles Costumer, Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater, 2016 Freelance Costume Designer, Portland OR Adjunct Faculty, Costume Design and History, Portland State University, 2011 Costume Shop Manager, Linfield College, 2010 Costume Designer Short Film The Snallygaster Tale, 2009
JESSICA CHAMPAGNE HANSEN, 2008 MFA Los Angeles Visit her website at http://jchansendesigns.carbonmade.com/ Professor of Costume Design, Los Angeles City College Costume Designer, The Velveteen Rabbit South Coast Repertory Theater TYA Costumer, Disney Entertainment Costuming, 2008 Costume Designer, Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater Program Costume Designer, Orange Flower Water, Pterodactiles, The Lyric Theater Faculty, Costuming for Theater, East Los Angeles College
MARTHA GRETSCH, 2008 MFA COSTUME DESIGN Los Angeles Visit her profile on IMD.com Costume Designer, Meth Head, feature film, 2012 Costume Designer, Everything's Jake, feature film Warner Bros, 2000
RACHEL STIVERS, 2008 BA COSTUME DESIGN HONORS Joined Film/TV union, Local 705 Motion Picture Costumers, 2010 Costumer, Eagleheart, TV series 24 episodes, Cartoon Network, 2011 Costumer, The LA Complex, TV Series 24 episodes, CTV Network, 2012
ASHLEY (RHODES) GAMBA, 2007 MFA Visit her profile at LinkedIn.com Instructor of Costume Design, University of Arizona- current Freelance Costume Design, Assisting and Crafts, current Resident Assistant Costume Designer, Pasadena Playhouse 2008-10 Costume Crafts Artisan, South Coast Repertory Theater, 2007-8 Costume Crafts Artisan, Los Angeles Opera, 2007-8
KRISTINE N. HAAG, 2006 MFA COSTUME DESIGN Visit her profile on IMD.com Vice President, Costume Designers Guild (the union for film/tv designers) current Costume Designer, TV Movie A Kiss at Midnight 2008 Assistant Designer Film So Undercover 2012 Costumer, Buyer Film, On the Road 2012, Tron, Legacy (2010), Flipped 2010 Costumer, Buyer TV Series, True Blood 2011, 90210, 2009~11, Big Love 2011, Mad Man (2008)
KATHRYN WILSON, 2006 MFA COSTUME DESIGN Visit her website at http://kwcostumes.com/ Freelance Costume Design and Educator -- current LA Weekly Award- Best Costume Design, Machiavelli, Hayworth Theater, 2006 Costume Designer, 5 seasons, Shakespeare Orange County Assistant Costume Designer, South Coast Repertory Theater Crafts Artisan, Dyer South Coast Repertory Theater
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NICOLE (KORZENIK) SCHOTT, 2005 MFA Visit her profile on IMDB.com Costume Designer Film, Beyond 2012, Should've been Romeo 2012, The Bard, 2010 Costume Designer, Film, The story of Robert Burns 2010, La Linea 2008 Costume Designer: TV Series, Commuter Confidential 2008, Saints & Sinners 2007
SHANA TORGOSZ, 2005 MFA Visit her website at http://www.shanatargosz.com/ and her profile on IMBD.com Freelance Costume Designer, Stylist, Milliner, Crafts Artisan, Portland OR, 2012 Assistant Costume Designer TV Series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 2005~8 Assistant Costume Designer TV Series The Disney Chanel Games 2007 Assistant Costume Designer TV Movie, Arwin! 2007, That's So Suite Life of Hanna Montana 2007
ELIZABETH A. COX, 2004 MFA Assistant Costume Designer: Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Costume Designer, A Holtville Night’s Dream, Cornerstone Theater, 2007 Faculty, Stage Costume and Make-up, California State University, Northridge 2004
SAMANTHA E. WHITE, 2004 Visit her profile on IMDB.com Costume Designer Short Film, Undercover 2011, Enlightened! 2009, Sam Gabriel 2007 Costume Designer TV Series American Heiress 2007 Costumer TV Series, Raising Hope 2010, Rizzoli & Isles 2010, My Name is Earl 2007~8
BRENDA MERCURE, 2003 Entertainment Costuming, Disneyland Resort, Area Manager, Costumer 2005- current
ANDREA (DANIEL)NASRALLAH, 2002 MFA Visit her profile on LinkedIn.com Design Manager, Senior Designer: Disguise Costume Manufacture, San Diego 2006-current Adjunct Faculty: The Art Institute of San Diego, 2011
SARA CURRAN 2001 MFA Faculty: University of Nebraska at Kearney Costume Designer Film, Yesterday was a Lie (2008), The Da Vinci Treasure 2006
HEIDI O'HARE 2001 MFA Faculty: Costume Design & Technology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Film/TV union local 705 Motion Picture Costumers Costume Designer, Orange County Shakespeare Festival, Williams Company, Chapman College Costumer TV, Sabrina the Witch, Passions and ER
REBECCA (SHEA) BALISTRERI 2000 Costumer Auto-Animatronics, Disneyland Resorts Costume Project Manager: Tokyo DisneySea, WDI 1999~2001
CHARLENE MCCABE 2000 MFA Costume Designer Buena Vista Theatres Costume Designer Film, When Angels Cry 2002, Some Kinda Joke 2001, Bring Him Home 2000
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