Regina Truhart -- Vice Commissioner of Costume Technology

Regina Truhart will be taking on the new role of "Vice Commissioner of Technology" with the Costume Design and Technology Commission of the United States Institute for Theater Technology.

After getting fit for her new tiara, Ms. Truhart will be responsible for programing an ongoing hands-on style session at the USITT national conference. The appointment was offered to her after a very successful "drinking and draping" (also known as "the found object draping challenge") session held here in Cincinnati at last year's USITT conference.

"You Can't Take It With You" -- building 1930's costumes for the stage

CCM Drama Production Fall 2009
Costume Designer -- MFA Student Liz Polley
Pattern maker/Draper -- David Arevalo

These are just some of the lovely 1930's style dresses that were designed by Liz Polley and patterned & built by CCM's staff draper-- David Arevalo.

Blood Wedding -- Katie Kimmel Costume Designer

"The Moon" played by CCM drama student Greg Wool

Costume Designer -- MFA Student Katie Kimmel

The Opera "Falstaff" gets a new look at CCM.

Last spring Dean Mogle, costume designer and head of the CCM costume area, lead the way to a brand new production of the opera "Falstaff". The professional staff, MFA student technicians and crafts artisans worked hard to build everything from gowns, ruffs, and hats for this fabulous production.


Peggy Ezekiel Awards of Outstanding were granted from USITT.
Dean Mogle--Costume Design
Star Slocum Fish-Costume Technology
Melissa Neville--Millinery

Falstaff Costumes Win Awards from USITT

Congratulations Starr Slocum Fish! This is just one of the gowns she built for the latest production of the opera "Falstaff". Here at CCM all principal characters are double cast so creating costumes is twice the fun.

This gown, along with the costumes for the leading male character Falstaff won Starr an OUTSTANDING for Costume Technology from USITT Ohio Valley.

19th Century Tailoring Systems

The University of Cincinnati/CCM drama production of Spring Awakening offered the costume technology program an opportunity to research men's tailoring systems of the 19Th century.

Regina Truhart, Assistant Professor of Costume Technology, made the decision to utilize the tailoring system from "The Blue Book of Men's Tailoring" Grand Edition of Supreme System for Producing Men's Garments (1907) by Frederich T. Croonborg for several reasons. The first reason was simply to take advantage of the primary research. The size of the lapel, the pocket placement and the shape of the center front of the coat proved to be extremely useful to both the costume technicians and the student costume designer Meghan Flannery. The second significant reason was the time crunch of the production calendar and the number of school uniforms that needed to be produced.

The Barber of Seville

Creating costumes for a double cast opera such as CCM's production of The Barber of Seville is a challenge. This past quarter several students in draping II class were assigned principal costumes to create patterns as well as fit, cut, stitch and finish for the double cast principals in less than six weeks time.