Costume Manager

Responsibilities

You are responsible for overseeing our costume selection. When other theater groups contact the Ensemble wanting to borrow costumes, you are in charge of coordinating a time for them to come borrow them as well as making sure they don't take any costumes that we need for a current show. You are responsible for making sure they return the costumes and that they get put back in the right place.

There may be additional costume-related things that the Officers ask your help with. This may include things like making sure the costume rack stays organized.

Costume Rack Organization

As the Costume Manager, you should be familiar with how the costume rack is organized. All the information listed here is also displayed on signs taped to the costume rack. If anything is changed, make sure that this page and those signs are adjusted. As of May 2017, the rack looks like this:

The costumes hanging on the pipes are organized into sections, with each section separated by labeled cards hanging on the pipes. The sections are as follows:

• Pipe A costume sections (listed from south to north):
  • Skirts and Pants
  • Vests
  • Sweaters
  • Shirts
  • Suit Jackets
  • Robes, Cloaks, and One-Pieces
  • Outdoor Jackets
  Pipe B costume sections (listed from west to east):
  • Nightgowns
  • Non-period/Modern Dresses
  • Period Dresses
  • Period Shirts
  • Period Pants
  • Period Robes/Tunics

Here is a diagram of the top of the costume rack:

• Detailed list of items on top of costume rack:
  
  • EnsemBALL supplies (two boxes)
  • Witch costumes box (from Macbeth 2015)
  • Roll of "ladybug" red polka-dotted cloth (from Othello 2014)
  • Dress form in box
  • Flowers box
  • Old show shirts (3 boxes) - these are in the back corner
  • Button-down shirts (clear box)
  • Yoga, worker, and generic pants (clear box)
  • Scarves and Shawls (clear box)
  • Carpet (from Winter's Tale 2017) - behind three clear boxes
  • 3 FAP beanbags - behind three clear boxes

Costume boxes that are not on top of the costume rack are either underneath the costume rack or on top of the printer shelf next to it. Here is an inventory of these boxes: