Amy Ballew
Cutter/Draper
Virginia Theatre Festival
Summer 2024
First Hand
For this musical revue, the performers provided their own garments for the show. A few of the performers brought in new items that needed some minor alterations that we took care of.
50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue
Costume Designer: Sarah Bryan
Draper: Caroline Cook
For this production, we built Audrey II's finale look, two of Audrey's outfits, and the Ronette's sequin dresses including their tulle boas.
One of my first tasks of the summer was to scale down the Audrey II finale look to quarter-scale so the patterns could be digitally colored for custom fabric printing. The custom fabric did not arrive until the week before tech rehearsals and we had less than one work week to build the final fabric version.
Little Shop of Horrors
Costume Designer: Grier Coleman
Draper: Caroline Cook
Scaled down Audrey II pattern piece
Final Audrey II fabric layout before cutting
Layering three colors of tulle for boas
Designer rendering from draper packet
The 39 Steps
Costume Designer: Jill Van Brussel
Draper: Caroline Cook
For this production, we created six builds in total along with a lot of quick rigging alterations. I was given the opportunity to drape one of the six builds and was responsible for the character of Mrs. Jordan.
Draping front bodice
Front View
Draped front bodice
Cuff detail with trim
In process before trim and shortening train length
Back view