Marie C. Lupia Resume
Professional Theater
Cat Theatre Richmond, VA, Fall 2017
Shop Manager and Costume Designer
Ripcord
Duties: maintaining costume stock, pulling and purchasing costumes, building and altering costumes, creating paperwork, and attending
rehearsals and strike.
John Tyler Community College Midlothian, VA, Fall 2016
Shop Manager and Costume Designer
She Kills Monsters
Duties: organizing and maintaining the costume shop, draping and construction of costumes as well as alterations. Keeping track of borrowed costumes and working with the stage manager/producer to track the budget and shop for costumes. Attending rehearsals, training wardrobe, and striking the show.
Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre Winchester, VA Summer 2014, 2015
Assistant Costume Designer
The Music Man, Man of La Mancha
Duties: assisting the designer in pulling and sourcing costumes and assisting in fittings. Attending rehearsals and taking notes, organizing accessories and dressing rooms. Pulling, altering, decorating, and designing the hats for The Music Man.
Stitcher
The Wiz, The Addam’s Family Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum,
Mary Poppins, The King and I, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Educational Theater
University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston-Salem, NC, Fall 2019 – Current
Costume Shop Manager
Coriolanus, Passing Strange, Passage, Devised: Mother Tongue, Three Sisters, Alls Well that Ends Well (School of Drama), Opera Scenes, Volpone (Fletcher Opera Institute)
Duties: Attending all production meetings, scheduling faculty looks for shows, scheduling fittings and measurements, overseeing drapers and draper loads as well as deciding draper loads, attending and compiling notes from tech rehearsals and overseeing the completion of notes. Ensuring all machines and irons are turned off at the end of the night and locking the costume shop. Scheduling and running load-in and load-outs, driving a box truck and assisting in driving a box truck for off-campus productions. Assigning stitchers to teams, overseeing the training of stitchers, assisting drapers as needed in fittings, builds, and alterations. Contacting and updating production and stage management as well as keeping in contact with other departments.
Crafts Head
Linda di Chamounix (Fletcher Opera Institute), Heathers: the Musical, Indecent, Detroit 67, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (School of Drama)
Duties: Leading a team of crafts artisans and an assistant. Repairing and/or altering shoes, hats, jewelry, and glasses. Fabricating costume pieces using 3D Printing, electrical wiring and LEDs, resin, wire, foam, silicone rubber, thermoplastics, leather, and paper mache. Fabric and clothing modification using dye, bleach, airbrush, and distressing materials.
Draper
L’heure Espagnole, Un avvertimento ai gelosi, Les Inglesi (Fletcher Opera Institute), The Miser, Neaptide, Stick Fly, The Odyssey (School of Drama)
First Hand
La Clemenza di Tito (Fletcher Opera Institute), Spring Awakening, The Cider House Rules Part I and II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (School of Drama)
Longwood University Farmville, VA, Fall 2011 – Spring 2015
Costume Designer
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Prometheus Bound, An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein
Draper
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blithe Spirit, The Trojan Women, L’Amour: an Opera
Assistant Costume Designer
The Love of Three Oranges
Duties: attending production meetings and taking notes, tracking paperwork and piecelists, pulling garments from stock and researching garments. Attending rehearsals and taking notes and pictures.
Costume Shop Manager
A Dream Play, Blithe Spirit, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Duties: overseeing stitchers and tracking costume alterations, training new stitchers and maintaining and organizing costume stock.
Wardrobe Supervisor
Evil Dead: The Musical, The Trojan Women, L’Amour: an Opera, Steel Magnolias
Employment
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, Winter 2016 – Fall 2019)
Draper and Stitcher in the Historic Area Sewing Room
Duties: building historically accurate garments for purchase, silk work, custom commissions, hat decoration, taking inventory, customer service, and building garments for children, dolls, and dogs.
Cedar Fair Parks, Doswell, VA, Fall 2015
Kings Dominion Halloween Haunt Makeup Artist
Education
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, School of Design and Production
Class of 2022 MFA in Costume Technology Candidate
Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia
Class of 2015 BFA in Technical Theatre
Additional Skills
Embroidery – Hand and Machine, Digitizing Embroidery Patterns on Embrilliance, Geomagic DesignX, Auto CAD, ZBrush, Leathercrafting, 3D Printing, Basic Photoshop Skills, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, SFX Makeup, Photography, Videography, Archery, Millinery, Flat Patterning, Draping, Tailoring, Fabric Modification, Minor Shoe Repairs, Customer Service, Minor in Creative Writing