Program: COSTUME PRODUCTION

Katherine Chung

MFA Costume Production, 2025

Katherine is a New York-based costume maker from Taipei, Taiwan. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Costume Design from Taipei National University of the Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts in Costume Production from Carnegie Mellon University.

As a draper, Katherine’s work has recently been seen onstage in City Theatre Company’s The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Quantum Theatre’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and Carnegie Mellon University’s A Little Night Music. She was a contributing artist helping create a sculptural garment for display in Flowers Meet Fashion: Inspired by Billy Porter at Phipps Conservatory. Additional credits include work as an intern at Parsons-Meares Ltd., and a First Hand at The Santa Fe Opera and Barrington Stage Company. She is currently working as a First Hand at Parsons-Meares Ltd.

Katherine has a penchant for historical and traditional clothing and focused her capstone project at Carnegie Mellon on exploring the influence of western tailoring techniques on the Chinese QiPao.

Sophie Hood

MFA COSTUME PRODUCTION, 2014

Sophie Hood is a costume maker and teacher who explores the connection between theater arts, technology and fine arts. She is specifically interested in using technologies such as arduino and eco-friendly materials in her costumes. One of her creations, the Tech Dress, was featured on the Tony Awards red carpet in 2017. 

While in Pittsburgh, Sophie worked as an adjunct professor at CCMU and as an instructor at Cut and Sew Studio teaching adult and children’s classes. After moving to Berkeley, CA in 2018, she opened her own sewing studio, Little Bird, where she taught private and small group lessons in costume construction and sewing out of her home studio. She also worked on shows at Berkley Repertory Theatre and California Shakespeare Theater as a draper and craftsperson before moving to Colchester, VT, where she reopened Little Bird and continues to teach today. 

Celia Kasberg

MFA COSTUME PRODUCTION, 2022

Celia Kasberg is a Costume Artisan who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MFA in Costume Production in 2022. While at CMU, she did dye and craft work for productions of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812”, “Love and Information”, “Power Trip”, “Béatrice et Bénédict”, and “Into the Woods”; her thesis focused on the world of leatherworking and tailoring through the eyes of western wear. 

Some of Celia’s most notable credits include being the Assistant Craft Manager at the Glimmerglass Festival, Assistant Milliner for The Music Man on Broadway, and craft work for Murder on the Orient Express at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Celia was a Lead Craft Artisan and Dyer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the 2022-2023 season and is currently the Costume Craft Artisan for Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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.

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