Selected Costume Designs

University of South Dakota
resident Costume Designer/Shop Manager, 1990 to present.

The Crucible	Noises Off
Natural History	I Hate Hamlet
The Game of Love and Chance	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Burn This	Tartuffe
The Lucky Spot	Cabaret
Man of La Mancha	Hamlet
Bus Stop	The Fantasticks
JoNell Johnson and Ruthie Mapes	Arms and the Man
Vinegar Tom	The Car
Zorro	Playboy of the Western World
The White House Murder Case	On the Verge
Indian Radio Days	Robin Hood
The Foreigner	Everyman
The Taming of the Shrew	Taking Steps

The BlackHills Playhouse,Costume Designer

Lend Me a Tenor - 1991
The Odd Couple - 1992 (female version)
Merchant of Venice - 1994 (in collaboration with RalphKoltai)
I Hate Hamlet - 1997
1776 - 1998

Notre Dame/Saint Mary's Theatre, resident Designer,Costume Shop Manager, 1983 to 1990.

Costume Design

The Skin of Our Teeth	Electra
The Investigation	We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
The House of Bernarda Alba	La Fille Mal Garde
The Tempest	The Dramatist
Three Sisters	West Side Story

Costume and Scenic Design

Hay Fever	Crimes of the Heart
To Dance!	Antigone
Thursday's Child (premiere)	The Glass Menagerie
Tour de Dance Moonchildren	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Dance 90 - a concert of works by:	"... hot ice and wondrous
Carter McAdams, Kerry Kreiman	strange snow. . ."
and Indi Dieckgrafe

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
graduate student in costume design at University of Illinois, 1980-83.

The Miss Firecracker Contest directed by RobertKalfin
Tartuffe directed by David Knight
Playhouse Dance - a concert by Illinois Dance Theatre including:

• Mountain of Needles by Jan Erkert
• Landscape and Moments by Patricia Knowles
• This Way and That by Bill Evans
• The War of the Worlds by Laura Glenn

Illinois Wesleyan University, faculty Costume Designer/ShopManager, 1977-80.

Follies	The Madwoman of Chaillot
Hedda Gabler	The King and I
The Children's Hour	Scapino
Carnival	Candide
Equus	Death of a Salesman
Prisoner of Second Avenue	Macbeth

Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, studentCostume Designer, 1974-77.

Volpone (MA Thesis 1976)	The Lady's Not For Burning
Pantaglieze	Exit the King
Die Fladermaus

Additional Technical Costume Experience

• 1987 - Cutter and costume craft's artesian at Alabama ShakespeareFestival, Montgomery AL. Duties included cutting and tailoringfor the productions of Othello and Hedda Gableras well as dyeing, painting, jewelry and shoe making crafts foradditional productions.
• 1987 - Wardrobe assistant for Radio City Music Hall designerJoyce Aysta for the ABC production of the Opening Ceremoniesof the International Summer Special Olympics. Duties includedfit and alterations of over five hundred costumes in a two-weekperiod.
• 1983 - First hand Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Anniston AL.Duties included cutting, stitching and fitting of several productions.Also included assisting designer Susie Cox on certain portionsof Taming of the Shrew.
• 1982 - Assistant costume shop manager at Great Lakes ShakespeareFestival, Cleveland OH. Duties included purchasing, assistingdesigners Lew Rampino and Gene Lakin as needed and crafts suchas dyeing.
• 1980-83 Costume shop assistant at the Krannert Center forthe Performing Arts. Duties included all aspects of costume constructionand crafts.
• Assistant to James Berton Harris, costume designer: Ariadneauf Naxos for Illinois Opera Theatre, Misalliance forIllinois Summer Repertory Festival
• Period tailoring workshop conducted by Betty Williams of TheStudio, New York NY. Included completion of nineteenth centurysuit for University of Illinois production of The Lady Fromthe Sea

Teaching Experience

• University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 1990-presentRank of Associate Professor, tenured. Member of Graduate SchoolFaculty.
  Courses taught include: Costume Design (graduate and undergraduatelevels, beginning and advanced ), Stage Costuming, Theatre Studio:Patternmaking, Theatre Studio: Costume Crafts, Theatre Seminar:Costume History, Stage Makeup.
• Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 1983-90 -Rank of Professional Specialist.
  Courses taught include: Costume Design, Stage Makeup, Theory andPractice of Technical Theatre (stagecraft), Production Problems(an individual study course in technical theatre areas), directedindependent studies in Advanced Play Analysis and Costume Patterning.
• University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1981-83 - GraduateTeaching Assistant.
  Courses include: Design Studio: Costume Construction and Introductionto Theatre Production: Costumes.
• Illinois Wesleyan University 1977-80 - Rank ofInstructor. Courses taught include: Costume Design and Construction, VisualCharacterization: Makeup and Costume, Children's Theatre and teamtaught Introduction to Technical Theatre.

Courses Taught Regularly

Thea 240:Stage Costume (annually)
Thea 243: Stage Makeup (annually)
Thea 443: Costume Design (annually)
Thea 444: Advanced Costume Design
Thea 496: Theatre Seminar - Costume History (bi-annually)
Thea 497: Theatre Studio - Costume Patterning (bi-annually)
Thea 497: Theatre Studio - Costume Crafts (bi-annually)
Thea 741: Costume Design (annually)
Thea 745: Advanced Problems in Design/Technology - Costume Patterning (bi)
Thea 745: Advanced Problems in Design/Technology - Costume Crafts (bi-ann.)
Thea 745: Advanced Problems in Design/Technology - Rendering (bi-annually)
Thea 745: Advanced Problems in Design/Technology - Costume History (tri-ann.)

Honors and Recognition

• 2005 and 2006 student designer received first place in the Regional ACTF Barbazon Design Competition for Costume Design as well as 2005 2nd place nationally at the Kennedy Center in Costume Design.
• 1999 recipient of Governor Janklow's Faculty Awards for Teaching with Technology. The project entitled Integrating Technology in Costume Design involved development of interactive CD-ROM entitled The Elements and Principles of Design; setting up a Design and Technology computer lab for the Department of Theatre; and redesigning Thea 443: Costume Design to include computer based technology for teaching and rendering of graphic designs.
• 1999 Nominated by the University of South Dakota for an Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology and the Boyer Award , both presented by The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL.
• Chosen by jury to have theatrical costume designs displayed as a part of the International Theatre Design Archive web site, April 1999. http://www.siue.edu/PROJECT2000/indexes/costdes/l.scribner.html
• One of twelve faculty members chosen to participate in the inaugural year of the Center for Instructional Design and Delivery, an initiative of the University of South Dakota (in 2006 renamed the Center for Teaching and Learning) exploring the use of technology in the classroom. The mission and objectives of the "CTL" are available online at http://www.usd.edu/ctl/
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader, annual awards, recognition of Zorro as "Year's Most Beautiful Production", University of South Dakota Theatre, November 1997(costume designer)
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader, annual awards, recognition of the costume designs for Arms and the Man, University of South Dakota Theatre, October 1994
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader, annual awards, recognition of Hamlet as "Best College Production" University of South Dakota, 1993 (costume designer)
• Honorable mention for costume design from American College Theatre Festival,
  costume design for Burn This, University of South Dakota, 1990
  

Grants

• USD Faculty Research Grant to support sabbatical activities with a new high-end computer workstation, November 1998.
• USD Faculty Development Grant to study Macromedia Director at the CIDD Summer Tech Institute, June 1998.
• USD Travel mini-grant to attend USITT conference for presentation "Teaching with Computers: Before the Training Wheels Come Off" for the University and College Theatre Commission of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology, national conference, Long Beach, CA, March 19, 1998.
• USD Faculty Development Grant entitled "Application of Multimedia Computer Technology to the Teaching of Costume History" the implementation of which was undertaken June 1995 and completed by December 1995. This grant supported attendance at two workshops of the Institute for Educational Technology in Durham, NC. The workshops developed the skills necessary to allow me to undertake development of the prototype for my multimedia textbook of Costume History.
• USD Travel mini-grant to attend ATHE conference for presentation of paper "Considerations in Resetting Period Plays: The Designer's Perspective", Seattle, WA, August 1991.
  

Professional Activities

• Invitation to present on panel entitled "Teaching with Computers: Before the Training
  Wheels Come Off" at the USITT (United States Institute of Theatre Technology) National Conference in Long Beach, CA in March, 1998.
• Member of costume jury panel for "Theatre 2000 Project" an initiative of USITT
  compiling 2000 theatrical designs on the WWW by the year 2000. Required making qualification judgements about both the designs and the web site development.
• Member of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) "Considerations in Resetting Period Plays: The Designer's Perspective", presentation at the convention of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Seattle, WA, August 1991.
• Chair of panel - Multimedia Computer Applications for Theatre Education, Philadelphia, August 1993.
• Member United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT)
• Member of Costume Commission, University and College Theatre Commission

Consulting Activities

Consulting activity is primarily through the USD Theatre Department's Costume Rental Program, serving over 125 schools, groups and individuals since 1990.

University Committee Assignments

• Research Catalyst Grant Review Committee - 2005
• Presidential Alum Scholars Committee - (sab. replacement Sp. 2000)
• University Academic Computing Committee - 1997 - 2000
• CIDD Advisory Board member since 1997
• Assignment to the Center for Instructional Design and Delivery - 1996-97
• University Curriculum and Instruction Committee - 1995 - 97

College Committee Assignments

• College of Fine Arts Dean's Advisory Council - 2004 - present
• College of Fine Arts Computer Resource Committee - 1994-present
• College Rank and Tenure Committee - 1996 - 98
• Arts Advocacy Task Force - 1995-96
• Multimedia Development Committee - 1995-96
• Arts and K-12 Education Interest Group - 1994-95
• College Curriculum and Instruction Committee - 1993-95
• Disabilities and the Arts - 1993-94

Department Committee Assignments

• Season Selection Committee - 1990 - present
• Assessment Committee - 1990 - present, committee chair 1991 - 1996
• USD Summer High School Workshop Committee - member and participating teacher in summer 1992
• Creative Research Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee - 1990-91

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