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Larissa Gray
Larissa Gray
Larissa Gray
Over the course of my three years at AUB, I have acquired the skills to create historically accurate menswear and womenswear, along with learning about costume supervision.
I decided for my final year that I would specialise in costume supervision. I was given the opportunity to be costume supervisor for two AUB shows, Spring Awakening and the 1770s version of La Casa Nova.
Spring Awakening was a sourced show, which allowed me the opportunity to improve my hiring and buying skills to fit the costume designs within a budget. I was able to practice breaking down costumes, using different tools and dyes to create the illusion that the costumes had been worn in and to follow the plot of the play.
La Casa Nova was a made show, I had the chance to go fabric shopping in London with the designer at the beginning of the project and then I worked with the costume makers and bought them the materials they needed to create the costumes.
Plans after degree
After I graduate, my aim is to work in theatre and my goal is to carry on with costume supervision.
Collaborator
Role
Gemma Halfacree
Costume designer, breakdown artist
Maya Mansfield
Costume designer
Seren Rees
Costume supervisor
Nicole McCafferty
Assistant supervisor, breakdown artist
Rowan Smith
Head of Running Wardrobe, breakdown artist
Seren Purchase, Izzy Cresswell
Set designers
Andy Beeson, Jayne Jackson
Photographers
Leah Allender, Alex Walker
Make-up artists
Abby Rees, Finlay Whitfield, Christina Paz, Kate Maryon, Megan Barnwell, Jamie McLaughlin, Robert Elson, Maja Lönnroth, Brooke Monet, Adam Ellen-Martin
Models, actors
Jasmine Bevan, Emiliya Kezhina, Charlie Tolley, Elsie Howard, Rebecca Li, Iris Heising
Costume makers