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EXPERIENCE

Places of Employment
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From 2013 to 2017, Meghan worked as a stitcher in the Muhlenberg College costume shop in Allentown, PA. There, she worked on fifteen productions and took a class on costume construction techniques. In April of 2016, she was a costume design assistant on Ulysses in Nighttown. In the spring of 2017, she costume designed the Muhlenberg College Department of Theater and Dance's production of Gertrude Stein's Listen to Me

 

From September to December of 2015, Meghan worked as an apprentice stitcher in the costume studio for the Washington National Opera at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. While at the WNO, she worked as part of a draping team for two productions, and learned basic millinery techniques.

 

From May to August of 2016, Meghan was an apprentice stitcher and dresser at The Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, NM. She built and altered costumes for the five operas performed in the 60th anniversary season, which included Mozart's Don Giovanni and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West. She also was a dresser for four of the operas, one as a chorus dresser, and three as a men's principle artist dresser. 

In the fall of 2017, Meghan spent a few months working in the character costume room at Disney's Animal Kingdom through the Disney College Program. 

In November 2017, Meghan started as a Draper and Stitcher at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. The Conservatory puts up eight productions per year, for which Meghan builds and alters costumes each semester.

In May of 2019, Meghan had the opportunity to return to The Santa Fe Opera, this time as a staff stitcher on the five operas in the company's 63rd season. She returned to The Boston Conservatory in September, while also starting a new job at Gather Here in Cambridge, MA, as a sewing machine technician.

Skills

Meghan is proficient in using both industrial and domestic sewing machines, as well as industrial sergers. She can sew in buttons, zippers, snaps, and various other types of closures, and is proficient in multiple hand sewing stitches. She has basic flat patterning skills, can interpret and cut out a commercial pattern, and has a basic knowledge of draping. She has learned to put rivets and snaps into leather, and has done basic dying using RIT dyes. Beyond costume construction, Meghan has learned how to create costume renderings using watercolor, colored pencil, and collaging methods. Meghan is also improving her skills in sewing machine repair.

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