Costume and Wardrobe

Wardrobe Supervisor: Once

By Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

Directed by Kelly Howe, Costume Design by Rachel Healy

I served as both costume shop assistant and wardrobe supervisor on this production, managing shop paperwork during fittings and build and transitioning to crew once the show opened. The wardrobe crew was five people, including myself, split between the thirteen actors and the orchestra, which were onstage and costumed to match the production.

Assistant Costume Design: The Old Man And The Old Moon

By PigPen Theatre

Directed by Emily Ritger, Costume Design by Rachel Healy

The clothing of this intriguing tale of loss, love, memory, and light incorporated elements of vintage workwear and creative mending to create a world with objects are valued and care is taken with the work the characters do.

Theoretical Work

Throughout my time at Loyola University Chicago, I produced several bodies of costume design as theoretical assignments. These are shown to the left and below. They include designs for a medieval production of Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost, with inspiration taken primarily from the 13th c. Codex Manesse; a 1980s production of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, with inspiration drawn from courtroom dramas of the era; and a 1930s production of Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, with a focus on simpler, more "modern" costuming for the era.