Angels in America Costume Process
Costuming by: Carly Bozeman
Below I provided a breakdown of my costuming process Angels in America, one of the 13 short plays in Connection Collection. This process is out of the ordinary due to COVID-19, but I felt was incredibly helpful in staying organized with my work.
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1. Finding Visuals
The first step of my online costume design process for Angels in America was to gather visuals I felt were representative of the discussions I had with the student director, Izzy Barkey. She wanted a sort of "dreamscape" feel to her scene, with more focus on the virtual set, rather than her costumes, so we decided to use basic black costuming choices in order to make the blue set pop. This was one of the only plays that predetermined that they wanted to use black costume pieces before it was decided that every scene will be made up of black costume pieces to flow cohesively together.
2. Creating Lists & Notes
I then took the inspiration I drew from the visuals and listed out the items that needed to be pulled from the SSU Costume shop for costuming--(considering the pandemic, Costume Shop Director Martha Clarke played a substantial role in helping the costume process run smoothly. She went on campus during COVID-19 to pull the necessary pieces needed). Considering most costuming was basic black, many actors had the pieces we needed in their closets!
As previously stated, Angels in America had its own unique development considering Izzy and I wanted to use black costuming from the get-go. In my other costuming processes for Connection Collection, I started with an original "color" filled visual before recreating similar visuals in black costuming.