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Job title:

Lecturer, Performance Costume, School of Design

Role:

Course Organiser, Undergraduate Years 1 and 2

Office:

Q19, Hunter Building

Office hours:

Tuesday , 9.15am - 12.15pm | Wednesday 1pm - 4.30pm | Thursday 9.15am - 1.30pm | Friday 1.30pm - 4pm

Biography

​​​Costume Designer for theatre and film, with a strong track record in 3D costume prop construction , millinery and puppetry. Work includes, most recently, one of four curators for the Society of British Theatre Designers Hello Stranger regional event, Scotland, held at Edinburgh College of Art. This will form part of the UK stand at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial.

Costume designer and Supervisor on a low budget feature,  Polterheist (2018) .The film is set in Bradford and West Yorkshire and began life as an award winning short film before gaining the funding to be made into a full length film . Experienced in all aspects of a Wardrobe Department from Dresser to Wardrobe Assistant, Touring Wardrobe to Head Cutter, Supervisor and Costume Designer . Emma has combined industry practice with teaching for over 16 years.

Other work includes:

Costume Designer for Duchy Parade Films on a short film entitled  'Wilfred' based on the last few days of the poet Wilfred Owen (2004). Costume Designer, Autumn Season, Harrogate Theatre .This 2001 season included the premier of the newly commissioned musical 'Tears of a Clown'  a rock and roll re-telling of Macbeth. 3D costume construction including Rottweiler dogs and Large Tomato's for Watershed's National Tour of 'Horrid Henry' ,  Supervisor of Student Designer and Wardrobe support for 'The Last Coiner 'a film and Graphic Novel (2004) and Project Imagineer for a large scale puppet ,site specific performance entitled Ark of the Animals (2011) . I have worked with a number of new writers and performers in conjunction with the Beach Hut Theatre Company, exploring the portrayal and modernisation of Shakespeare's most recognisable characters.(2015) Costume Designer (2022) Short Film Hide Tadah Media. Large Banraku puppet for a short student film In All My Dreams I Drown (2023) 

Research

​Research is currently based on ensuring currency of personal  knowledge and skills within industry practice. I am exploring the ideas around costume and sound. This research began back in 2019 with a talk I gave  at the Prague Quadrennial. The project is now a collaboration with Megan Baker as we explore the idea of sound and costume.

Ongoing is work on a personal project provisionally entitled duvet days exploring safe spaces at times of extreme stress and working with breast cancer groups to capture these experiences. 

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