Mari DeWitt
[email protected]
Professional Experience
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EUGENE OREGON
Costume Designer and Instructor August 2008 - Present
• Design, build and maintain all costumes for the theater, dance and
music departments. Organizes costume shop and works within
school budgets.
• Developed and teaches stage makeup and costume design courses.
Recruits and supervises student workers. Hires part time help.
• Attends dance and theater production meetings, rehearsals and
techs. Schedules fittings. Maintains equipment and makeup
supplies.
BAKERSFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIA
Costume Technician January 1990 - June 1998
• Designed, built and maintained five main stage shows each
school year including repertory Shakespeare productions every
fall.
• Maintained accounts, and worked with in a budget.
• Supervised student helpers and taught costume design course.
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, California
Designed and built costumes for two mains stage shows and students one acts. Peer Gynte, West Side Story. Managed students.
Education
NEWBURY PARK HIGH SCHOOL, NEWBURY PARK CALIFORNIA
High School Diploma, Jun 1976
• General studies
MOORPARK COLLEGE , CALIFORNIA
A.A., Jun 1979
• General studies.
FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
A.A., Jun 1980
• Pattern making and draping. Design and sewing.
• Costume rendering.
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE
Classified Development, theater arts.
California State University Bakersfield
Utah Shakespeare Festival
Lane Community College
Fiber Arts
Additional Skills
• Expert seamstress with all machines including power and
industrial. Fast and efficient building, altering and pulling
costumes.
• Advanced computer and website design skills. Expert digital
photographer and graphic artist.
• Pattern making skills. Flat, draping and slash and spread. Ability
to alter and tailor costumes and needed.
• Creative and innovative with dye, paint and aging .
• Developed costume design and stage makeup courses. Instruction
of both.
• Effective and positive communicator with the ability to work
well with all personalities.
Theatrical Productions
Cal Lutheran University
West Side Story
Peer Gynte
Student directed one acts:
Bench on the Edge
Baby
Bakersfield College
Rivals 20
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Three Penny Opera
Hair
Oklahoma
Peer Gynte
The Sneeze ( five one acts by Chekhov)
DaDonde?
Sand Mountain
Lion in Winter
Story Theater
Amal and the Night Visitors
Ama and the White Crane
Climbing Kilimanjaro
Big Knuckles
A Boy's Life (ATCF nomination)
Children of a Lesser God
Three Sisters
Romeo and Juliet
Comedy of Errors
King Lear
Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Much Ado About Nothing
Measure for Measure
Coriolanus
Othello
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Bakersfield Community Theater
Lend me a Tenor
Lane Community College:
A Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Midsummer Night's Dream
Rent
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Godspell
Arsenic and Old Lace
Charlotte's Web
The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock
Exploding Love
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Arcadia
Move Over Mrs. Markham
Company
The Vibrator Play or in the Next Room
Waiting for Godot
Constance and Sinestra
Angels in America
The Pillowman
Cymbeline
The Birthday Party
Peter and the Star Catcher
The Orestia Project
The Family Treasure
James and the Giant Peach
[email protected]
Professional Experience
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EUGENE OREGON
Costume Designer and Instructor August 2008 - Present
• Design, build and maintain all costumes for the theater, dance and
music departments. Organizes costume shop and works within
school budgets.
• Developed and teaches stage makeup and costume design courses.
Recruits and supervises student workers. Hires part time help.
• Attends dance and theater production meetings, rehearsals and
techs. Schedules fittings. Maintains equipment and makeup
supplies.
BAKERSFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIA
Costume Technician January 1990 - June 1998
• Designed, built and maintained five main stage shows each
school year including repertory Shakespeare productions every
fall.
• Maintained accounts, and worked with in a budget.
• Supervised student helpers and taught costume design course.
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, California
Designed and built costumes for two mains stage shows and students one acts. Peer Gynte, West Side Story. Managed students.
Education
NEWBURY PARK HIGH SCHOOL, NEWBURY PARK CALIFORNIA
High School Diploma, Jun 1976
• General studies
MOORPARK COLLEGE , CALIFORNIA
A.A., Jun 1979
• General studies.
FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
A.A., Jun 1980
• Pattern making and draping. Design and sewing.
• Costume rendering.
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE
Classified Development, theater arts.
California State University Bakersfield
Utah Shakespeare Festival
Lane Community College
Fiber Arts
Additional Skills
• Expert seamstress with all machines including power and
industrial. Fast and efficient building, altering and pulling
costumes.
• Advanced computer and website design skills. Expert digital
photographer and graphic artist.
• Pattern making skills. Flat, draping and slash and spread. Ability
to alter and tailor costumes and needed.
• Creative and innovative with dye, paint and aging .
• Developed costume design and stage makeup courses. Instruction
of both.
• Effective and positive communicator with the ability to work
well with all personalities.
Theatrical Productions
Cal Lutheran University
West Side Story
Peer Gynte
Student directed one acts:
Bench on the Edge
Baby
Bakersfield College
Rivals 20
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Three Penny Opera
Hair
Oklahoma
Peer Gynte
The Sneeze ( five one acts by Chekhov)
DaDonde?
Sand Mountain
Lion in Winter
Story Theater
Amal and the Night Visitors
Ama and the White Crane
Climbing Kilimanjaro
Big Knuckles
A Boy's Life (ATCF nomination)
Children of a Lesser God
Three Sisters
Romeo and Juliet
Comedy of Errors
King Lear
Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Much Ado About Nothing
Measure for Measure
Coriolanus
Othello
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Bakersfield Community Theater
Lend me a Tenor
Lane Community College:
A Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Midsummer Night's Dream
Rent
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Godspell
Arsenic and Old Lace
Charlotte's Web
The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock
Exploding Love
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Arcadia
Move Over Mrs. Markham
Company
The Vibrator Play or in the Next Room
Waiting for Godot
Constance and Sinestra
Angels in America
The Pillowman
Cymbeline
The Birthday Party
Peter and the Star Catcher
The Orestia Project
The Family Treasure
James and the Giant Peach