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Design
Project 4 - Blocked Felt
Classwork
T630 - Millinery
Fall 2025
Dye Work
Starting Color
Project 5 - Sinamay
Final - Sinamay Titanic Fascinator
Project 1 - Shirred Beret and Two-Sided Beret
Project 2 - Pillbox
Project 3 - Boater
T433 - Costume Design II
Spring 2024
Exercise 1 - Response to Music
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Exercise 3 - Copywork
Final Project - The Fantasticks
Midterm Project - The Play That Goes Wrong
La Boheme - Assistant Designer
IU Opera and Ballet Theater
November 2025
Puccini's beloved tale of a group of Bohemian artists living in 1800s Paris and their lives, loves, and loss.
Work and Scope
Tasks included: pulling, preparing fittings, running fittings; taking notes during dress rehearsal, communicating with the shop, serving as an in-person liasion for the designer. The process began as pulling from IU Opera and Ballet general stock and styling preliminary looks for the chorus and specific principal pieces. After pulling, virtually uploading and communicating with the designer acted as a precursor to in-person visits being used to finalize and edit. Next, preparing fittings and styling specific looks while continuously updating paperwork began to run in tandem with the pulling process. In conclusion, tech week consisted of taking notes and acting as the second pair of eyes and hands for the designer.
Production Photos
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Photo Credits: Zach Rosing
Jekyll and Hyde
Independent Faculty Project
May 2025
A gothic musical telling of the classic tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and a battle between good and evil.
Sample Renderings
Production Photos
Design Thesis and Process
Focusing on themes of illness and death in the show and in wider Victorian culture, colors such as purple, green, pale blue, and yellow provide a vibrant image of decay amongst the characters. Due to the scale and nature of the production, the central goal was to blend modern pieces, vintage pieces, and era-accurate pieces to create a Victorian look that is also timeless. Focus on silhouettes, colors, and group impact to sell the era while remaining within the scope of the show.
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Photo Credits: Kendrick Weingast
Average College Lesbian Experience
Independent Student Project
November 2025
A first-year college student discovers her sexuality and identity through a whirlwind romance set around a comedic cast of characters.
Design Thesis and Process
Largely working in collaboration with actors for their own clothing blended with my personal items, the guiding goal of the production was to create stylized, caricature-like looks that were versatile for frequent changes. At the same time, finding a middle-ground of 2000s-2010s clothing that could live in any romantic comedy without overly dating any character became the most important component of the design. References were carefully selected in collaborations with the directors and actors to stay rooted in LGBTQ+ and specifically lesbian cultural figures, phenomena, and stereotypes, whether traditionally positive or negative.
Production Photos
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Photo Credits: Wyatt McKinley
Love of a Pig
University Players
March 2024
A comedy exploration of a young woman's love life as she navigates self-love and worth through her unique, analytic lens of the world.
Design Thesis and Process
University Players, IU's largest student theatre group, often does shows in found spaces. In this case, Love of a Pig was performed in an unused dermatological office's attic. The costumes acted as one of the most transformative facets of the show, with each character playing anywhere between one and eight characters. To begin, each actor had a neutral base look designed, which could be altered or layered on top of throughout the show as necessary. Each character kept an essential color, to match the central character's categorized view of the world, with pieces all living relatively close in color.
Production Photos
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Photo Credits: Mikayla White
Measure for Measure
IU Theatre and Drama
January 2024
An interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most interesting and complex works that explored gender, power structures, and ideas of death and mercy.
Sample Renderings
Production Photos
Design Thesis and Process
To use as simple of costumes as possible while still conveying themes through specific use of color. Blue conveys characters that are good of heart, while red is associated with characters in authority, who often abuse those good-hearted characters. Purple and gold represented luxury and decadence as traditionally viewed, but also over-indulgence in the vices and sins of Vienna, with magenta and light red behaving as symbols of false authority who often actively enabled or failed to stop such sin. Finally, characters in purely grayscale acted outside of the structures of power, whether undermining them or utilizing them for their goals without submitting to them.
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Photo Credits: Zach Rosing
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