136. What We Wear Tells A Story with Qween Jean

Well, I'm curious to break down just for folks who are listening who are like, OK, cool.

I'm interested in this world.

Let's break it down of like if you have the team who is leading how it works.

Is that budget dependent? If you're a person who wears all the hats and as you have at many points, like how the costume land exists for folks?

No, this is a great question.

I would say that, I mean, the entire team, right, is in a collaboration.

And so oftentimes the director is like, well, maybe the producing partner.

Maybe the producing people, the folks that are housing us, are housing the production, probably aren't in charge.

But then we have our director, and sometimes if it's a musical or a more devised piece, you might have a choreographer, you might have a movement specialist.

And so those folks really are helping to answer the questions.

And then they bring on a design team, and so you'll have scenery, lighting design, projections.

And at times, there can also be, if there's different installation work, uh hair design uh makeup design you know if there's like support for that uh which there should be hello uh and then of course our department which is costumes and so uh for us like uh we help to create i think sometimes like the look or the visuals uh wardrobe for the story yeah um and really those are the items and the the storytelling tools that really help guide the character through the story.

And so I would say that the designer kind of really is like at the top.

And then you also will have like an assistant or an associate artist that is supporting that designer to help, you know, facilitate conversations, textiles, in conversation with production management, as well as stage management as well.

And then, you know, in terms of like, if it's like a, if you're working in a bigger institution that might have a costume shop or other resources, you know, then you'll work with the shop manager, the draper, stitcher, firsthand.

These are folks that are literally creating, you know, that are taking the pattern from the draper and then making, you know, cutting it out and preparing it for it to be stitched.

And then there's crafts as well, painting, the dyeing department, D-Y-E.

And so folks that are doing a lot of incredible rigorous work to manipulate the textiles in order to achieve a more closer to real life.

Yeah,

I think naming it is, and that's why I'm, thank you for doing that.

Because I think people, you see an outfit on stage and you're just like, oh, it's a shirt.

It's like, no, no, no, no, no.

This shirt was chosen specifically.

There were many people who were involved in creating this specific look.

And