Costume Design Students Participate in Masterclasses with Esteemed Professional Artists
The theatre design and production costume design students participated in four masterclasses over the course of the 2024/25 academic year, with four exciting professional artists.
Brandon Miller ’04 (Bachelor of Science in Arts Management, Minor in Music) hosted a wig masterclass for students in November 2024. Miller is a resident wig master and pit drummer at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Broadway costume designer and co-chair of design at Yale University Toni-Leslie James hosted a masterclass for the costume design class in March.
Master leather artisan Wheeler “Doc” Stone hosted a leather mask workshop in April where the costume design students created custom masks that were used in the spring main stage opera, “Falstaff”.
Ray Berger of Berger Sewing hosted a sewing machine repair workshop in May. Berger services all of the sewing machines in the costume shop.
“Masterclasses are an important part of the costume design program, and we are thrilled that our students had these experiences this year,” said Costume Designer and Associate Professor of Costume Design Jennifer Flitton Adams, M.F.A.
