CV

Skills

• Hand sewing
• Fitting and alterations
• Domestic and industrial sewing and overlocking
• Pattern drafting and alteration (metric and draping on stand)
• Embroidery and beading
• Fabric Manipulation
• Mending
• Breaking down
• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
• Experienced Knitter
• Experience working with
  plastazote, warbla and variform
• Full clean driving license and car

Throughout the initial years of her career, Rebecca has enjoyed gaining experience within a wide range of performance types. Her degree in costume provided her with an excellent knowledge of sewing, mending and alteration. She has then developed this to working within a range of different perfomance types and taking on some small scale design roles. This broad range of experience allows her to take a design from conception to completion with confidence. Continuing forward, Rebecca hopes to remain focused on broadening her skillset and solidifying her experience. With a hard working and postitve attitude she is an excellent addition to any team.

Qualifications

Experience

Costume Trainee (NI Screen) – Tom Jones
(27/09/21-09/12/21)
Workroom assisting, principal truck and on set duties including: Mending, alterations, light sewing duties, organising, tidying, line-up, break down, running, stand-by and dressing.

Costume Trainee (NI Screen) – Conversations with Friends
(22/03/21-10/09/21)
At the start of the job, my duties were mainly tidying, organising, returns and labelling. As the job progressed I took on some dress making and alteration tasks. By the time we got a few weeks into the second block I was working as a full time maker with tasks including small and large scale alterations aswell as dress making. Having been supported by Cathy Young in the first block, the independent work in the second block saw me working with expensive, vintage or very limited stock materials and to tight deadlines for my experience level. I look forward to CWF being released so I can share images of my work.

Costume Trainee (NI Screen) – Dalgleish
(1/03/21-19/03/21)
1 week of prep and 2 weeks of crowd truck duties including: hired stock intake and cataloging, sizing, tidying and organising, pulling stock, fitting extras, dressing extras and occasionally setting principal cast rooms.

Costume Trainee – Flatemates 2 – Zodiak Kids
(12/10/20-21/12/20)
Checks, dressing, lineup, mending, hand sewing, continuity notes.

Costume Daily – The Awakening – Studio Lambert
(01/10/20-09/10/20)
Buying, returns, making hip padding and embellishment.

Dresser – Under the Hawthorn Tree – Cahoots NI
(29/01/20-10/02/20)
Mending prop and costume items, breaking down,
making head pieces and organisational tasks.

Costume Design, Alteration and Styling for Amy Montgomery
(12/03/19 – Present)
Working with Amy Montgomery on costumes for events such as Glastonbury Festival, television appearances or music videos.

Costume Supervisor – Engine: Breaking Boarders – Tinderbox NI and Poetico Manifesto
(30/09/19 – 12/10/19)
Prop making, costume design and sourcing.

Wardrobe Assistant – In the Night Garden – Minor Entertainment
(21/09/19 – 22/09/19)
Laundry and costume maintenance.

Textile Arts and Sewing Teacher – Freelance with various community centre
(23/08/19 – Present)
Taking classes in community centres throughout Co
Antrim and Down.

Costume Assistant – St Patrick’s Day Parade
(25/2/19 – 17/3/19)
Predominantly sewing and alterations. Also including some design and making with Plastazote.

Costume Trainee Daily – Line of Duty
(29/10/19 – 30/10/19)
Costume repair, some checks.

Costume Trainee Daily -Death and Nightingales
(18/7/18 – 1/8/18)
Styling, tying corsets, costume maintenance, minor checks, dressing SA’s.