LeedsBid (Independent Maker); June 2025

Trainee Costume Assistant

(Wonderland Awaits)

  • Assisting with textile embellishment (print).

  • Assisting in fittings.

  • Assisting in minor alterations (taking in garments and raising hems)

  • Assisting in the finishing of garments (overlocking, topstitching/ coverlocking hems/ edges, closures)

Film and TV (Freelance); May 2025 – June 2025

Junior Costume Standby

(Unreleased Film Project)

  • Costume maintenance (prep costumes in dressing rooms, assisting with laundry, monitor costumes for mess/ damages etc).

  • Facilitate necessary dressing/ changes as necessary.

  • Monitor and maintain costume continuity, keeping in line with established continuity, (and carry out touch ups as necessary.)

  • Ensure comfort of cast (maintaining warmth and comfort of cast, maintaining welcoming environment etc).

  • Assisting in attachment of mic belts/ mic packs for cast (& maintainance of invisibility of mic belt/ pack.)

Manchester Opera House (Independent Maker); March 2025 – April 2025

Trainee Costume Maker

(‘A Knight’s tale’ musical)

  • Assisting in the construction of several garments for principal actress (tacking, gathering, pleating, some machine sewing).

  • Finishing garments (hems, seams, closures etc).

  • Assisting to construct structural undergarments (pleating layers for panniers, sewing darts, sewing channels, preparing and inserting steel boning, finishing hems etc).

 

Film and TV (Freelance); Jan 2025 – Feb 2025

Wardrobe Dept. trainee

(Unreleased pilot episode)

  • Cutting and constructing garments independently.

  • Finishing garments (cuffs, hems, closures etc).

  • Assisting with breaking down process (to appear ‘mucky’ and worn).

  • Assisting in fittings.

York Theatre Royal; Sept 2024 - Dec 2025

Wardrobe Dept. trainee

(‘Little Women’, ‘Aladdin’ panto, youth theatre, other seasonal costumes)

  • Repairs (darning, patching, replacing panels, jewellery repairs etc).

  • Minor Alterations.

  • Assisting with garment construction (cutting, tacking, gathering, pleating, machine sewing etc).

  • Finishing Garments (hems, finishing seams, cuffs, adding closures etc).

  • Laundry/ maintenance (washing, drying, ironing/ steaming etc).

  • Working with cast and crew to ensure performances run smoothly.

*References available on request