Grow a Costume Collection

What does it take to grow a costume collection?  It’s done usually by people with a dream, vision or just by happenstance.  Here are a few miscellaneous tidbits.

Colin has worked locally as a theatrical technician at Tallahassee Community College, where he contributed to the development of their program, and also in the New England area for the Centennial Theatre Festival and SBL Lighting Design.

In April 2012, she advanced to the School of Theatre as the UBA Office Administrator where she works closely with the F&A Operations Manager and the Executive Director to complete the Financial and HR tasks for the School of Theatre.

As time went on, she began to get more requests from people wanting her tutus since it is a specialized skill that few possess and the price of getting them made by established costumes shops made it prohibitive for companies on a tight budget.

In recent years, other large productions have occasionally been added, such as a showcase musical for the state theatre festival, a second fully-staged musical, or an in-concert version of a musical in conjunction with the orchestra.

We are a public high school in Santa Barbara, California, and we are dedicated to giving as professional an experience to student actors and technicians as is possible-to that end, we employ professional designers, choreographers, musical directors and guest artists.

We offer an array of entertainment all year round (our summer show attracts current and former high school students from all over Santa Barbara County), in a renovated, 800 seat house featuring state of the art lighting and sound.

David has worked with the Ensemble Theatre Company, Cate School, Crane Country Day School, Stage Left Productions, Up Stage Left Productions and Goleta Valley Junior High focusing on student participation, youth outreach and exposing the world of theatre to as many young people as possible.

Currently working with the Santa Barbara High School Theatre and its foundation to maintain, expand, and revitalize the Santa Barbara High School theatre space, he has been the Technical Director and Shop Foreman for the Santa Barbara High Schools productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2014), Chicago (2013); SPAMALOT (2013); The Drowsy Chaperone (2012); Into the Woods (2012), Alice in Wonderland (2011).

The collection, conceived as part of the fund’s overall mission to foster and support the theatrical arts, rents out everything from top hats to moon boots, all of them Broadway-grade, to theater, television and film companies, at affordable prices.