The Wardrobe Supervisor's Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Wardrobe is a complete resource for organizing and streamlining the wardrobe process for any live production, with tips and tricks to quickly and seamlessly dress performers for their next scene.
This book offers a foundation for anyone wishing to improve their wardrobe skills, as well as specific steps for universities and theater companies to implement into their wardrobe process. Elizabeth Polley draws on professional experiences to provide clear directions, numerous examples, practical forms and lists, and advice for keeping calm and bringing order to backstage costume changes. This toolkit includes paperwork samples, quick-change tricks, laundry solutions, dress rehearsal recommendations, items to have in a wardrobe kit, and much more.
This book is written for new and emerging Wardrobe professionals and costume shop managers, as well as students in technical theatre courses, including Costume Technology, Costume Design, Stage Management, and Production Management.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate Core
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50 s/w Abbildungen, 41 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 9 s/w Zeichnungen, 6 s/w Tabellen
6 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 41 Halftones, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 260 mm
Breite: 183 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-032-54520-2 (9781032545202)
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Elizabeth Polley is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Albright College and the Wardrobe Manager for The Glimmerglass Festival's 2024 season. Recently, she worked as the Costume Shop Manager and Adjunct Professor for the Kean University Theatre Conservatory and Premiere Stages Theatre Company. Prior to this, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Costume Technology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Highlights from Polley's professional wardrobe career include dressing for the concerts of Taylor Swift, Pink, Justin Bieber, Paula Abdul, and Ariana Grande. Her national tour wardrobe work includes Kinky Boots, Dirty Dancing, Jersey Boys, Spamalot!, West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, and Ragtime.
1. The Wardrobe Supervisor 2. Pre-Production 3. Paperwork 4. Being a Team Leader 5. Tools and Safety 6. Tech Week 7. Performances and Costume Maintenance 8. Next Steps 9. Teaching Wardrobe 10. Working in Wardrobe
