Pamela Prior has over 10 years of experience managing costume shops and designing costumes for theater productions. She has managed shops for companies in Virginia, New Jersey, and New Hampshire, overseeing staff and budgets. Prior has also freelanced as a costume designer and worked on productions in New York. Her skills include design, construction, dyeing, millinery, and management. She has an MFA in costume design and seeks new opportunities.

1. Pamela A. Prior ● Costume Shop Manager
860.912.1654 ● pamaprior@gmail.com● pamelaprior.com
Costume Shop Management Experience
Costume Shop Manager & Costume Designer in Residence, Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA, July 2012 to April 2014
Responsibilities included: hiring & supervising a staff of three seasonal employees in building, maintaining & striking 7 main stage productions & 2
touring children’s productions per season, extensive costume craft work (millinery, dyeing fabrics, painting & modifying shoes) designing , shopping
& building costume pieces for all productions, planning expenses and accurately reporting budgets for shows, maintaining wig pieces Production
Manager: Terry S. Flint Outside Designers: Shana Albery (Associate Designer for Paul Tazewell), Jacqueline Firkins, Christine Pascual, Jeni Schaefer
Costume Shop Manager, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, NJ October 2009 to July 2012
Responsibilities included: hiring & supervising a staff of 6 employees and summer interns in creating period costumes for Shakespearean and
Classical theatre, creating hats and other craft items as needed, dyeing fabric, distressing costumes, shoe modification and repairs, shopping fabric,
sourcing materials, restocking notions and supplies as needed, communicating with the wardrobe department to ensure production quality was
maintained, creating and reporting budgets, sourcing wig pieces as needed, scheduling and organizing fittings Production Managers: Kelly
Easterling, Richard M. Dionne & Matthew Eggleton Designers: Paul Canada, Maggie Dick, Hugh Hanson, Jacqueline Firkins , Nancy Leary, Krissy
Sneshkoff
Costume Shop Manager & Designer, Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company, North Conway, NH May 2009 to August 2009
Responsibilities included: designing costumes for 3 productions, supervising staff of 3, organizing & running costume fittings, shopping for costume
pieces and fabric, stitching, embellishing & creating costume craft items
Relevant Experience
Freelance Costume Designer & Wardrobe Supervisor, New York/ New Jersey Area, May 2014 to March 2015
Responsibilities included: freelance costume design for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Virginia Stage Company & Farleigh Dickinson
University, Wardrobe Supervisor for Off-Broadway production of Ethel Sings! (Theatre Row, Costume Designer: Whitney Locher) & Anon(ymous)
(The New School for Drama, Costume Designer: Caitlin Cisek)
Costume Design/ Tech II, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, August 2012 to December 2013 (weekends, seasonal)
Responsibilities included: building & altering costumes, distributing costumes, collecting costumes, maintaining stock, pulling costumes as directed
by supervisor, laundry organization, assisting with “Scare Squad” measurements and fittings Costume Shop Manager: Kaitlin Vetere
Costume Design Assistant, The Lion King (Las Vegas Production), New York, NY & Las Vegas, NV January to May 2009
Responsibilities included: assisting Associate Designer with shopping & sourcing fabric while in New York City, attending/ assisting with costume
fittings, acquiring appropriate fabrics and materials, shoe painting & ordering, painting/ embellishing hyena puppets Associate Designer: Mary
Nemecek Peterson
Education
M.F.A. in Costume Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2008
B.F.A. in Design/ Technical Theatre, University of Connecticut, May 2002
Skills
costume design & construction, wig maintenance and styling, wardrobe, general and specialized dye work, employee management, creation of
budget paperwork , millinery, costume crafts, stitching (industrial & domestic machines), computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint &
Photoshop)
References
Shana Albery, Wardrobe, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, New York, NY, 646-554-3045, salbery@yahoo.com
Rachel Dozier-Ezell, Costume Shop Manager, The New School for Drama, New York, NY, 217-377-0868, racheldozierezell@gmail.com
Terry S. Flint, Production Manager, Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA, 757-627-1234, tflint@vastage.com