Resume ~ Naomi Lazarus

Naomi Lazarus
3754 Inverness St.
Vancouver, BC V5V4V9
778-899-7673
604-708-3722
design@naomilazarus.com

Career Objectives:

To establish myself as a period costume designer in the theatre and film. To work on projects with a focus on historical accuracy and detail, to create exciting and realistic visuals to help expand the audience’s understanding of different periods, and to combine my creativity and my knowledge and research skills to create works of dynamic visual and dramatic art that inform as well as visually excite the audience.

Skills:

• Costume Design: I have a strong visual sense, which I use to translate character and depth visually through costume design. I can create a unified production design, working with set and lighting designers, and specialize in historical periods ranging from pre-Roman to the twentieth century.
• Research: I am an experienced researcher, and can draw from multiple sources the aesthetic of a particular time period, culture and class. I am knowledgeable in a vast range of historical periods, and know how to research periods I am less familiar with.
• Construction: I am experienced at period costume construction and familiar with unusual sewing techniques found only in period costume, such as boning and cartridge pleating. I can draft my own patterns, use commercial patterns, or follow others hand-made patterns. I can also distress, dye, break down and stain costumes and fabrics.
• Buying: I am experienced at making the most of a tight project budget and am very familiar with the resources available in Vancouver for inexpensive fabrics, props and supplies and am organized and keep excellent records of purchases.
• Millinery: I have some experience as a milliner and can construct hats of a wide range of types and shapes.
• Repair and Maintenance: As a designer on small productions and as a costume assistant for other designers, I have a great deal of experience with repair work, both by hand and machine as well as standard costume maintenance work. I am creative and have a wide variety of craft skills that can assist with props and stage maintenance as well.

Related Skills:

• Textile Arts: I can embroider, make bobbin lace, bead, and do various other forms of ornamental textile arts. I also teach several of these skills on a regular basis.
• Rubber Stamping: I have a wide range of skills in printed art, both for paper and fabric and know how to apply them to period-looking costumes.

Experience:

Theatre:

• 2011 - Costume Designer, The Good, The Dead and the Unclean, Spectral Theatre
• 2011 - Costume Designer, Little, Little, Little Theatre, William Maranda Productions
• 2011 - Costume Designer, Scenes From American Life,Collingwood School
• 2010 - Costume Designer, The Story of Erisichthon, Tales from the Toadstool, Spectral Theatre
• 2010 - Costume Designer, Harvey,Collingwood School
• 2009 - Costume Designer, The Crucible,Collingwood School
• 2009 - Co-director, Costume Designer, Pyewacket, Spectral Theatre's Late Night Double Feature
• 2009 - Costume Designer, Bayswater Station and The Visitors, Spectral Theatre's Late Night Double Feature
• 2008 - Costume Designer, Amadeus, Collingwood School
• 2008 - Costume Designer, The Velvet Edge, Spectral Theatre
• 2008 - Costume Consultant, The Museum Project, Dive In! Productions
• 2008 - Costume Designer, Necromance, Spectral Theatre's Late Night Double Feature, Spectral Theatre
• 2008 - Costume Designer, The Three Sisters, 3rd St. Series, Presentation House Theatre
• 2007 - Costume Designer, The Diary of Anne Frank, Collingwood School
• 2007 - Costume Designer, Dead Ends V, Spectral Theatre
• 2007 - Costume Designer, Zastrozzi, Enlightenment Theatre
• 2007 - Costume Designer, Hamlet, Centre for Creative Iniatives
• 2007 - Costume Designer, Black Holes, Spectral Theatre
• 2007 - Costume Designer, An Ideal Husband, 3rd St. Theatre Series,Presentation House Theatre
• 2006 - Costume Designer, The Rocky Horror Show, Wicked Awesome Theatre, Nominee, Best Design, Ovations Awards
• 2006 - Costume Coordinator, Chasing The Money, Green Thumb Theatre
• 2006 - Costume Coordinator, Cranked, Green Thumb Theatre
• 2006 - Wardrobe Mistress, ShowCase Festival (The Taming of the Shrew and Kiss Me, Kate)
• 2006 – Costume Designer, Lock Up Your Daughters, North Vancouver Community Players
• 2006 – Costume Designer, Pyewacket, Dead Ends IV, Spectral Theatre, Winner, Favourite Costume Design, The Winslow Awards for Excellence.
• 2006 – Costume Designer, The Seagull, Mice and Mentors Co-op
• 2005 – Costume Designer, The Ladies of the Camellias, Earn The Nose Co-op
• 2004 – 2005 - Head of Wardrobe, United Players Theatre
• 2005 – Costume Designer, A Month in the Country, United Players Theatre
• 2005 – Costume Designer, Hamlet, Spectral Theatre
• 2005 – Costume Designer, Translations, Mice and Mentors Co-op
• 2004 – Costume Designer, Bus Stop, Metro Theatre
• 2004 – Costume Designer, The Lady’s Not For Burning, United Players Theatre
• 2004 – Costume Apprentice, Studio 55
• 2003 – Costume Designer, Cinderella, a Panto, Metro Theatre, Nominee, Best Costume Design, CTC Awards
• 2003 – Costumer, You Say Tomatoes, Metro Theatre
• 1998 - Costume assistant, The Kiss Project
• 1993 - Costume Designer, Road, The Actor’s Resource Group
• 1993 - Stage Manager, Two Short Plays With Punch, The Men’s Festival
• 1992 - Stage Manager and Costumer, The Legend of Bonefish, Vancouver Fringe Festival
• 1988 - Costume Assistant, Farther West, Touchstone Theatre

Film: