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MELANIE
SCHUESSLER
Associate
Professor of Costume Design
102 Quirk Building
734-487-3440 (Costume Shop)
734-487-0032 (Office)
mschuess@emich.edu
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Degrees
MFA—Costume Design, University of Wisconsin at Madison,
1998
BA—History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1995
Professional Associations/Memberships
Costume Society of America
The Costume Society (Great Britain)
United States Institute for Theatre Technology
Representative courses taught
CTAR 153: Technical Theatre: Costume & Makeup
CTAR 256: Costume Construction and Crafts
CTAR 353: Digital Design for Theatre and the Entertainment Industry
CTAR 363: Stage Costume: History and Theory
CTAR 364: Costume Design
CTAR 365: Costume Draping
CTAR 366: Advanced Stage Makeup
CTAR 664: Costume II
CTAR 677: Research Techniques
Advising
Theatre Arts, majors and minors
Theatre Arts, MA
Biography
Melanie Schuessler brings years of experience as a professional
costume designer, costume
technician, and costume history scholar to Eastern. Though her
passion extends to all periods of
fashion history, her research focuses on the clothing of 16th-century
England. Recent
presentations include “Deconstructing and Reconstructing
Sixteenth-Century Clothing in Film”
and “Cloak and Dagger: Treason and Clothing in Tudor England” at
the International Medieval
Congress. Recent publications include “Costume Design for
the Stage in the United States” in
Documenting: Costume Design, “Fashioning the Middle Ages:
Teaching Medieval Culture
Through Clothing,” in the online journal The Once and Future
Classroom, “French Hoods:
Development of a Sixteenth-Century Court Fashion” in Medieval
Clothing and Textiles, volume 5
and “’She Hath Over Grown All that Ever She Hath’:
Children's Clothing in the Lisle Letters,
1553-40” in Medieval Clothing and Textiles, volume 3.
Professional design credits include Tartuffe for Michigan Shakespeare
Festival, Five Course
Love, Flyover, U.S.A., Talley’s Folly, and Flap for Williamston
Theatre, Williamston, MI;
Southern Comforts for Tipping Point Theatre, Northville, MI;
One Flea Spare for Planet Ant
Theatre, Hamtramck, MI; Lucia di Lammermoor, Lady, Be Good, and
Ain't Misbehavin' for
Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee, WI; The Caretaker, Steam Bath,
and Twelfth Night for
Bialystock and Bloom, Milwaukee, WI; and Macbeth for the Milwaukee
Shakespeare Company. On the technical side of costuming, she has
worked as a professional Cutter/Draper for dozens of
shows at companies including Skylight Opera Theatre, Pine Mountain
Music Festival, Next Act
Theatre, and Madison Repertory Theatre.
Her portfolio appears online at: http://www.faucet.net/costume
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