Joanne Massingham
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About
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I am a "freelance", or self employed costume designer and costume coordinator. I am based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and primarily work in theatre, but have also worked on films over the years. During the past 30 years I have worked as a fabric dyer and painter, a jeweler, a milliner, a stitcher, a buyer, a head of wardrobe and a costume designer. It has been my good fortune to have had such an extremely varied career in costuming over all of these years with so many useful work experiences to draw from and inform each other.
For the last 21 years I have been both the Head of wardrobe and the Costume designer for the Theatre and Drama Studies Program at the University of Toronto campus in Mississauga Ontario.
Please check out my Portfolio (tab above) for a selection of images from some of the shows that were mounted over those years and feature my costumes. Please have a look!
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Education
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College AA Costume Design for TheatreNiagara College1984 - 1985Specialized in costume design studies of the Technical Theatre program. Also studied Theatrical make-up. Apprenticed in the wardrobe department of The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada.
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College Diploma Fashion DesignGeorge Brown College1981 - 1983Studied all elements related to fashion design -sewing techniques -pattern drafting -pattern grading -illustration -fabrication
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Experience
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Costume Designer - The Harvester -Rabbit in a Hat productionsJun 2016 - Jul 2016 (1 month)Design and create the costumes for the production.
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Costume Designer, Head of Wardrobe & InstructorUniversity of Toronto-Mississauga, Theatre ErindaleMississauga, CanadaJan 1995 - Apr 2016 (21 years 3 months)-Designing or coordinating the costumes for all productions
-Instruct and lead the student costume crews in all elements required for the costumes needed for each production.
Shows Include: The Seagull (Dir. Melee Hutton); Pericles (Dir. Patrick Young); Orestes (Dir. Autumn Smith); The Rover (Dir. Melee Hutton); Macbeth (Dir. David Matheson); Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 (Dir. Peter Van Wart)); Bonjour, Là, Bonjour (Dir. Terry Tweed); The Taming of the Shrew (Dir. Mimi Mekler); The Taming of the Tamer (Dir. Patrick Young); Thirteen Hands (Dir. Ron Cameron-Lewis); Women Beware Women (Dir. Sue Miner); Love's Labour's Lost (Dir. Heinar Piller); Pride and Prejudice (Dir. Patrick Young); Les Belles-Soeurs (Dir. Vinetta Strombergs); The Children's Hour (Dir. Jane Carnwath); En Pièces Détachées (Duncan McIntosh); Lysistrata (Dir. Vinetta Strombergs); Hard Times (Dir. Christina James); Fen (Dir. Brian Richmond); The Hot L Baltimore (Dir. David Ferry); Midsummer Night's Dream (Dir. Greg Peterson); The Gut Girls (Dir. Katherine Kazas); Les Belles-Soeurs (Dir. Mimi Mekler); The Revenger's Tragedy (Dir. Patrick Young); The Relapse (Dir. Patrick Young) -
Costume DesignerLe Theatre Francais du TorontoToronto, Canada1994 - 1997 (3 years)Design, coordinate and create the costumes for the following productions: The Bear (Dir. Guy Mignault); Eddy (Dir. Diana Le Blanc); Le Chien (Dir. John Van Burek)
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@joannemassingham, member since 2016
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