Historical Pattern Archive 2 - Marcy Linton

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Marcy Linton is an Associate Professor of Costume Technology and Collection Manager of The Historic Clothing Collection at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. She has worked extensively as a firsthand and draper in theaters across the country including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, and Animal Planet. Marcy has draped for Toni-Leslie James for the Broadway Musical Finian's Rainbow and Anne Hould Ward at Flat Rock, NC on The Nutcracker. Marcy is the co-author of Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 (Routledge, 2019). As Collection Manager of the Historic Clothing Collection at UVA, she is currently in the process of documenting and cataloguing the approximately 3000-piece collection ranging from 1795-1980 into the universities online system through a research grant awarded in August 2024. Marcy received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her B.F.A. from North Carolina School of the Arts.

Thomas John Bernard is a professor of Costume Design in the department of Theatre and Dance at Cal Poly. He received his MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Northern Illinois University and his B.A. in Theatre from the University Minnesota-Minneapolis. He has taught both costume design and technology at the University level for the last thirty years, currently for Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo. He has worked for many theaters across the country, including Utah Shakespearean Festival, Little Theater of the Rockies, Central Coast Shakespeare, The Guthrie Theater, The Barn Theater, Phoenix Entertainment's National tour of Gypsy, and Summer Night. He has received national recognition for both his design and technology work from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for designing Something's Afoot and draping Comedy of Errors. He has worked with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Patterning their collection of 17th and 18th century clothing. Mr. Bernard was Vice Commissioner of Design for the Costume Commission within the United States Institute of Theatre Technology for eight years. He is the co-author of Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 (Routledge, 2019).