NICOLE LALA
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Experience
Costume Designer, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, May-July 2021
Duties included pulling from stock, coordinating rentals, building costumes, and maintaining wardrobe through the run of the shows Shrek the Musical, Jr. and The Addams Family Young@Part.
Costume Designer, Cinderella: an Original Contemporary Ballet, Northwestern State University, February 2022
Duties included designing original costumes, altering costumes from stock, communicating the designs with drapers, and finalizing costumes through dress rehearsal.
Costume Designer, The Rocky Horror Show, Northwestern State University, September 2021
Duties included designing original costumes, pulling from stock, purchasing different pieces, fitting actors, and finalizing costumes through dress rehearsal.
Costume Designer, Songs for a New World, Northwestern State University, November 2019
Duties included pulling from stock, assembling costume looks, fitting actors, and finishing looks before dress rehearsal.
Assistant Costume Designer, Cat in the Hat, Northwestern State University, February 2019
Duties included developing a process of building a wig made of horsehair tubing, teaching others how to make them, and adjusting the wigs for onstage wear.
Assistant Costume Designer, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Northwestern State University, October 2018
Duties included learning the basics of 3D printing, finding a method of printing, assembling the pieces, painting, and detailing. This project was presented as a poster at USITT 2021.
Cutter, Stitcher, Draper, Emerge: Spring Dance Concert, Northwestern State University, March 2021
Duties included flat patterning a dance bodice to fit multiple dancers, flat-lining coutil onto a stretch taffeta, boning the bodices with ridgeline, and completing the build.
Cutter, Stitcher, Draper, Our Country's Good, Northwestern State University, September 2019
Duties included flat patterning a pair of fall-front breeches, making and fitting a mock-up, and building the breeches out of a knit fabric.
Cutter, Stitcher, Draper, 1940's Radio Hour, Northwestern State University, April 2019
Duties included altering a pants pattern to purposely be too large for the actor and cutting and building plaid pants with the seams matching.
Wardrobe Head, Working: the Musical, Northwestern State University, April 2021
Duties included overseeing dressers and scheduling where they are meant to be and when, manage the care and cleaning of all costume pieces, communicate costume needs with the Stage Manager and Designer during the run of the show.
Stitcher, Northwestern State University, 2018-current
Duties include cutting fabric, altering patterns, building pieces, and performing alterations.
Special Skills
Using 3D printing for costume purposes, building wigs out of horsehair tubing, hand and machine sewing, industrial serger and sewing machine, flat patterning, draping, crochet, valid driver's license (LA), proficient in Microsoft products, read music, cake decorating
Education
Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Bachelor of Science, concentration in Design and Technology, expected graduation May 2022.