LAURA  E. JORDAN
Member of Alpha Psi Omega            +            Laura@LauraEJordan.com            +            Mailing address on request

B.A. Degree in Theatre, Berea College, 2005; Emphases in Costuming and Performance
WORK EXPERIENCE

Costume Design
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?                             Circuit Playhouse (TN)
  Lies and Legends
  A Year With Frog and Toad
  Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings
  A Lesson Before Dying
  Great American Trailer Park Musical
  Compleat Female Stage Beauty
  Orson's Shadow

  Native Blessing:  A Dance                                      Mountain Spirit (San Shin Dan) Puppet Troupe (KY)

   The Mousetrap                                                      McGaw Theatre at Berea College (KY)

Costume Design\Assistant Shop Manager
  I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change                 Festival 56 (IL)
   Vanities
  The Odd Couple
  Who's on First?
  The Laramie Project
  Run For Your Wife

  Nunsense!                                                             Jefferson Performing Arts Society (LA)
   The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
  Mahalia: A Gospel Musical
  Wild Mushrooms

Costume Coordinator\Costume Shop Manager
  All Shook Up!                                                       Jefferson Performing Arts Society
   Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Assistant Costume Designer
   Gregory and the Dreamslayers                                 Mountain Spirit Puppet Troupe

   Saturday, Sunday, Monday                                     McGaw Theatre at Berea College
   Metamorphoses

Wardrobe Supervisor
  Norwegian Jewel cruise ship                                   Jean Ann Ryan Productions (FL)
  SilverSea's Silver Shadow cruise ship
  Celebrity Century cruise ship                                   FJM Productions
  Charles Bach's Wonders                                           Charles Bach (NV)
   I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change                  Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (NY)
   A Tuna Christmas                                                   Playhouse on the Square (TN)

Dresser\Stitcher
   Jekyll and Hyde                                                      Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
   Mame
  Showboat
  Funny Girl
  Brigadoon
  George M!
  Crazy for You
  Disney's Beauty and the Beast
  Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
  The King and I
  The Music Man
  Gigi

  City of Angels                                                         Festival 56

Stitcher
  Hamlet                                                                   Festival 56
   Jesus Christ Superstar
  City of Angels
  A Doll's House
  The Wizard of Oz
  Henry IV
  The Sound of Music

  Madama Butterfly                                                    Jefferson Performing Arts Society
   Return to Forbidden Planet

  Big River                                                                 Playhouse on the Square
    Jerry Springer: The Opera
  Doubt

  Christmas 209B                                                         John Goodfriddle Co. (KY)

Costume Craftsperson
  Disney's Beauty and the Beast                                    Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
   Gigi
  Hamlet
  Metamorphoses                                                         Berea College Theatre
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Sewing (hand, domestic machines, sergers)                            Crocheting                                Knitting
Weaving on 4-harness loom                                                   Sequins\beading                        Felting and fulling
Native American seed beading (loom and freehand)               Fabric and yarn dyeing               Hand embroidery
Basketmaking (coiling and twining)                                         Bald cap application                  Some painting
Ability to construct chain mail from soda pop tabs                   Basic cake decoration               Basic web design\HTML
Basic knowledge of traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry     PC computer literate                 Valid driver's license and passport
AWARDS
Jean Perrin Award for Best Actress, 2004
Thornton Wilder Award for Best Young Playwright, 2003
Alpha Psi Omega Service Award, 2005
REFERENCES ON REQUEST

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