We were pleased to host Kara Monroe as our guest costume technologist during the Fall 2007 semester.  Kara was brought in for her professional expertise in draping.  After draping last year for The African Company Presents Richard III, Kara returned to drape for our Fall productions of Hedda Gabler and Twelfth Night.  On these two productions, she worked closely with our graduate and undergraduate students as they worked under her guidance to develop their first handling and stitching skills.  In the classroom, she taught students to construct classical and professional style tutus.  Kara earned an MFA in Costume Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She has taught workshops and master classes at UNC-Chapel Hill, USITT, SETC and FSU and has over 7 years of professional draping, cutting, stitching and first handling experience.  Her professional resume includes the Washington National Opera, Utah Shakespeare Company and Carolina Ballet.

Marcy Linton, Assistant Professor, Costume Technologist, Cutter/Draper, will be on sesqui leave during the Spring 2008 Semester.  Her professional travels will take her to the PlayMakers Repertory Company, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Dramatic Art’s professional theatre.  There, she will be draping for Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus in February and March.  Her plans also include draping for The Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia during the late winter through early spring months.

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