Danielle Dulchinos
MFA COSTUME PRODUCTION, 2024
Danielle is a draper, tailor, and dresser/set costumer who earned her MFA in Costume Production from the School of Drama in 2024.
Her monograph project was a hand-sewn and hand-embroidered re-creation of an 18th-century gown and petticoat, which went on to win the Costume Society of the UK’s 2024 Patterns of Fashion Award at The Fashion and Textile Museum of London. Danielle is the first US finalist, and the first US winner of the award.
As a costume maker for theater and film, Danielle’s work as a draper and stitcher is largely informed by historic techniques. She gravitates towards not only silhouettes and styles based in history, but also the approaches and methods used in garment production throughout the various centuries.
Her period tailoring work was recently seen onstage in City Theatre Company’s “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” and Carnegie Mellon University’s “A Little Night Music.” Additional recent credits include working as a travel tailor on Taylor Swift’s “The Era’s Tour” and as a swing dresser on “POTUS” on Broadway.