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COSTUME DESIGN
2024 The Addams Family (Dir: Maleesa De La Cruz, Secaucus High School)
2024 $29.95 (Dance) (Choreo: Stefanie Batten Bland, Montclair State University)
2024 Noula (Dance) (Choreo: Gaspard Louis, Montclair State University)
2023 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (JR Pilot) (Dir: Joey Nasta, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Puffs (Dir: Lisa Beth Vettoso, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Mean Girls (JR Edition) (Dir: Brooke Rutkowski, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Mean Girls (HS Edition) (Dir: Blake Spence, Aspire Performing Arts)
2021 It’s a Wonderful Life (Dir: Cheryl Delin, RHS New Players)
2021 Into the Woods (Dir: Joey Nasta, Eccentric Theater Company)
2020 Titus Andronicus * (Dir: Joey Nasta, Rogue Ensemble)
*featured in The New York Times and Time Out New York
2019 Sweeney Todd (Dir: Reegan McKenzie, Eccentric Theater Company)
2018 medea and medea/for medea** (Dir: Justin W. Cornell and Christina Balkovic Wolfe, Ramapo College)
**awarded KCACTF Certificate of Merit for Costume Design
ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGN
2018 Frankenstein (Des: Beba Shamash, Dir: Megan Callahan, Ramapo College)
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGN
2017 Twelfth Night (Des: Jennifer Paar, Dir: Maria Vail, Ramapo College)
COSTUME COORDINATION
2019 Aunt Leaf (Dir: Giulianna Nasta, Ramapo College)
2018 Advanced Directing One Acts (Dir: Various Ramapo College)
COSTUME CRAFTING & CONSTRUCTION (select)
The Addams Family (Des: Giulianna Nasta, 2024)
Into the Woods (Des: Giulianna Nasta, 2021)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Des: Beba Shamash, 2019)
The Library (Des. Tina Wasielewski, 2019)
medea and medea/for medea (Des. Giulianna Nasta, 2018)
Urinetown: The Musical (Des: Beba Shamash, 2018)
Frankenstein (Des: Beba Shamash, 2018)
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Des: Beba Shamash, 2017)
Twelfth Night (Des: Jennifer Paar, 2017)
Of Mice and Men (Des. Beba Shamash, 2016)
Iphigenia and Other Daughters (Des: Christine Cioletti, 2016)
RELATED WORK
Jan 2024-Current SEWING INSTRUCTOR, YMCA
At YMCA in Wyckoff, New Jersey, job includes: teaching children ages 5-14 hand and machine sewing as well as some other fiber and textile based arts
Nov 2022-Current FIBER-BASED PERFORMANCE ARTIST
Resituating the act of performance through costume builds and fiber based artwork, often with a focus on sustainability and experiences with disability and chronic illness (https://cara.app/giuliannacostumi)
May 2019-Current FREELANCE COSTUME DESIGNER/SEAMSTRESS/RESEARCHER
Serving as a costume designer on various theatrical productions, as well as constructing costumes, restoring extant garments, performing alterations, providing historical research, costume-specfic dramaturgy, and text analysis
Sept 2019-Feb 2020 INTERN, HELEN UFFNER VINTAGE CLOTHING
Under Helen Uffner in Queens, New York, jobs included: pulling, organizing, restoring, and researching extant garments from 1860-1980 for rent by film, television, and theater; writing invoices and checking in productions
Oct 2016-May 2019 HEAD COSTUME SHOP ASSISTANT, RAMAPO COLLEGE
Under Beba Shamash, jobs included: supervising and assisting students in Craft of Costume, Practicum, and Producing classes, pulling costumes, research, alterations, drafting, and construction for mainstage productions
EDUCATION
MA in Theatre Studies, Montclair State University (2022-2024)
BA in Theater (Concentration in Design/Technology), Ramapo College (2016-2019)