Mari DeWitt

maridewitt@mac.com

 

Costume Designer and Shop Manager

 

Current Employment
Lane Community College
Eugene, Oregon
Costume Designer Music, Theatre and Dance

Previous Employment

Bakersfield Community College and The Kern Shakespeare Festival 1990-1997

Costume Technician  Full time/12 month position

 

Productions

Shakespeare:

Othello, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, A Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen From Verona, The Tempest, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale and Fractured Shakespeare.

 

Musicals:

Oklahoma, Hair, Three Penny Opera, West Side Story, Amal and the Night Visitors

 

Contemporary:

A Lion In Winter, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Children of a Lesser God, Lend Me A Tenor, A Boy’s Life, All In The Timing, The Sneeze, Scenes and Revelations, The Bear, Rivals 20, Peer Gynt, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Da Donde?, Ama and the White Crane, Story Theatre, Sand Mountain, A Bench On The Edge, Baby, Big Knuckles, original and student directed plays.

 

Responsibilities

As a full time employee and under directorial supervision designed and built at least five productions each school year while supervising and instructing students. Executed designs, renderings, purchased supplies, scheduled fittings, worked a budget, maintained costumes and make up. Attended departmental and divisional meetings. Hired staff. Taught costume classes and supervised lab.

 

Skills

Flat pattern, draping, illustrator, paint, dye, aging, mask and hat building.

Gifted seamstress, skilled fitter, computer and camera skills. Team player.

 

Education

Moorpark Community College, AA 1979

Fashion Institute, Los Angeles, 1980

Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cal State Bakersfield, Vocational Teaching Equivalency

 

References and portfolio available upon request.