This course encompasses everything one needs to know to get a show up and running in the wardrobe department as a dresser from day one through opening night. Participants will learn how a new show is put together from scratch and the dresser’s specific job in that process. They will learn the steps and skills required to set up a dressing track from scratch and how to navigate through the tech process.
Pre-production preparation (setting up and stocking a wardrobe room, inventorying and labeling every costume piece, rigging shirts and costumes, sewing pit pads, creating mic belts, etc.)
How to set up dressing rooms and quick-change booths
Reading and interpreting tracking sheets
Creating pre-sets
Creating a safe and realistic dressing track
Writing notes
Designing quick changes
Making accommodations for privacy and nudity
Working with cut shows and split tracks
Understanding the daily tech process and schedule
Details
Language: English
Format: In-person
Length: 4 hours
Trainer
Lolly Totero, IATSE Locals 764 and 665
Location: New York, NY and Honolulu, HI
Lolly Totero has been a member of IATSE Local 764 since 1994. She has worked on Broadway as a Star Dresser, Principal Dresser, Ensemble Dresser, Swing Dresser, Dayworker, Assistant Supervisor, and Swing Supervisor. She has also traveled the country on a national tour and worked as a local dresser.
Lolly has taught a variety of classes for Local 764 including: “How to Set Up a Broadway Dressing Track,” “Star Dressing,” “Swing Dressing,” and “How to Bead Levels 1 and 2.”
Lolly has a wealth of experience working in the theatre and loves sharing her knowledge with others eager to learn. Lolly works on theatre, film, and television productions.