Getting Started with Natural Dyes: Growing and Gathering
As a costume designer and technician, I rely on the natural dye process of coffee and tea for dipping down bright whites to a softer tone and breaking down textiles when distressing clothing for film and stage. That had been my extent of natural dyeing experience until a few years ago when I started to find great joy in forging for plants…
Carrying Forward Practices Discovered in Virtual Theatre
Pivoting a season to virtual production caused shifts in calendar planning, reduced rehearsal time, and created strong opposition to the law of production. While I found pulling from previous practices gave me a pathway to solving problems, I needed to re-think approaches to the tried and true and find balance with the law of production…