MFA Costume Design
Erin Gilday
MFA Student; BA in Literature (highest honors) and Women’s Studies (honors), UCSC, 2006
2012-2013 GTF Teaching Assignments: Theatre Production and Lab
Publications:
Stripped Down Patchwork, Leisure Arts, 2011 (a book on modernized Seminole patchwork); additional patterns, sewing techniques, and fashion history articles in U.S. home sewing periodicals
Recent Production Credits:
Costume Design- Everyman, Portland Community College, 2012; Guest Sewing Instructor- Sew It All TV, PBS, 2012; Seamstress- Marin Shakespeare Festival, UCSC, Portland Community College
Natalya Kolosowsky
Design MFA Student, pursuing graduate certificate in New Media and Culture; BFA in Visual Communication/Illustration (summa cum laude, with honors), BS in Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Arizona, 2009
2012-2013 GTF Teaching Assignments: Theatre Production and Lab
Research Interests: interdisciplinary research, performance art, costume and identity, mask-making, experimental puppetry, new media, circus arts, myth, magic, science, social ritual, technology, physical theater, art/science collaborations
Awards, Accomplishments, Professional Memberships:
Visual art has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Arizona, Italy, Germany; illustration work selected for the 2008 American Society of Illustrators Student Competition and has appeared in magazines in the U.S. and abroad; Founder and Creative Director of the Anatomia Dance Collective; 16 years of classical dance training, as well as experience with circus arts and physical theater; research background includes working with Jeff Greenberg at the University of Arizona Existential Social Psychology lab, as well as outreach coordinator duties at a PTSD neuroscience lab at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Recent Production Credits:
Costume Design- Creature with University Theatre, 2013; Urban Myth with San Francisco’s City Circus, 2012; Flam Chen Pyrotechnic Theatre, Memoirs of a Robot Girl with Anna and the Annadroids, 2011; Rusalki with the AnaTomia Dance Collective, 2009-2010
MFA Scene and Lighting Design
Michael Walker
MFA Student
2012-2013 GTF Teaching Assignments: Theatre Production and Lab
Research Interests: scenic and lighting design
Recent Production Credits:
Scenic Design and Construction: Arsenic and Old Lace, Rent, 2012; Communicating Doors, A Thousand Cranes, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Godspell, 2011-12