Shannon Sigman Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Jose, Ca

8 shows - Landscape with Weapon, The Big Meal, R. Buckminster Fuller, Disconnect, A Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men, Antigone, Crime and Punishment• Costume Designer – Produced costume renderings based on script and directors input

San Jose, Ca

54 Shows – Disconnect, A Christmas Carol, Freud’s Last Session, Death of a Novel, Sonia Flew• Costume Director – Interpreted designers renderings, facilitated construction of costumes, managed budgets and costume staff, shopped and pulling for all show garments, oversaw fittings, produced all of the crafts including masks, puppets, antlers, wings, hats, headdresses and armor

San Jose, Ca

10 Shows – The Wizard of Oz, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Beauty and the Beast, Gypsy• Craft Master – Organized all craft projects such as head dresses and mascot costumes for each production, instructed summer workshop for high school theater students, beaded masks, built LED lit full body gypsy costume• Wardrobe Supervisor – Coordinated union and non-union dressers, hired non-union dressers, developed run sheet layouts• Props – Built props for Kaiser Permanente educational touring show

Mountain View, Ca

17 Shows – Little Princess, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Harold and Maude, Arcadia, All my Sons, Crowns• Craft Master – Designed and constructed over 200 hats• Wig Maintenance – Maintained and washed wigs to reproduce the designers original look• Dresser – Prepped stage for quick changes, prepared actors for show, laundered and maintained costumes• Wig Runner – Wigged actors during top of show and quick changes• Makeup Artist – Applied Chinese Opera makeup to main actor for the Show “Red”

San Jose, Ca

18 Shows – Manon, Madama Butterfly, Cenderella, Faust, The Magic Flute, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, Carmen• Craft Master – Built a 15’ dragon, 5 fantasy creature costumes, and a variety of masks• Wardrobe Supervisor – Main dresser for all principles, prepared the rack for the show• Makeup Artist – Applied opera make-up for chorus • Wig Runner – Blocked up wigs at the end of the show and wigged chorus during top of show • Stitcher – Stitched costume pieces according to a pattern made by the cutter / draper, Altered previously built costumes for a custom fit, made corsets and paniers from historical patterns• Dresser – Dressed the actors during quick changes and prepped clothes for the run of the show

Associate In Science, Apparel Design Advanced

• Emphasis in Draping, CAD, Flat pattern making,Couture Embellishment

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Liberal Arts

Foreign Exchange Program, Fashion Intensive, Millinery And Corsetry

• Millinery, Costume Restoration, and Costume History in London, England • Corset Making in Paris, France

Millinery

• Studying apparel construction