Freddy Clements is currently a Professor of Drama/Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL. He holds a BA in English/Theatre from Emory & Henry College, VA, and an MFA in Costume design from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia.

He has designed costumes for various theaters including Wayside Theatre in Middletown, VA, CPCC in Charlotte, North Carolina, Converse College Department of Music in Spartanburg, SC, Barter Theatre in Abington, VA, and Theatre In The Square in Marietta, GA. On the University level he has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, stage make-up and advanced stage make-up.

Chris is a recent graduate of the MFA Costume Design program at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently embarking on his new career as a freelance costume designer. As a costume technician Chris has worked in regional theatres across the country as both a cutter/draper and patternmaker, and as a costume craftsperson. As a designer, he has barely scratched the surface with work at nationally acclaimed Hartford Stage Company and Long Wharf Theatres and an award for graduate level costume design from SETC.

Chris has also spent time as an educator, teaching three years of beginning costume construction at VCA, classes in costume crafts, and seminars in kilt-making. He has studied under Tony Nominated Broadway Costume Designer Toni-Leslie James, costume historian Liz Hopper, as well as Freddy Clements, one of his colleagues that is a guest panelist to the Costuming Track.

All that said, Chris still dedicates his love of costuming to Star Wars, Halloween, and all things Sci-Fi.

Sharon Morgan is the owner of internationally known Altered Tyme Corsets, represented by San Francisco based www.Romantasy.com, and is one the foremost experts on modern corset making. She has made corsets for various independent films and artists.

She has freelanced at several Atlanta based theatres including the Alliance, and worked for the JSU Opera as the costume designer. She spent three seasons at the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival as the senior costume tech and wardrobe supervisor.

She is currently the Cutter draper, assistant costume shop manager, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Theatre where she teaches a corset making class.

Travis Scott Merrill, a costume crafts artisan, is currently in his fourth season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. His duties include: leatherwork, mask making, millinery, puppet making, armor construction, airbrush painting, make-up prosthetics, and wearable sculpture for large scale theatrical productions, and has worked with some of the best theatrical designers in the US.

Travis has studied costuming at Jacksonville State University, focusing on historical costumes of the thirteenth to eighteenth century and armor and mask construction for the stage.

He has worked three seasons at the Savannah Shakespeare Festival as the director and costume designer for the green shows. He also spent two seasons at the Tony Award Winning Utah Shakespeare Festival as senior crafts artisan and wardrobe crew. Feel free to visit at http://www.crafts4stage.com , or email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it