Stage

Patricia Zipprodt, New York, NY
Interned with the celebrated designer in 1984-85 during the time in which her designs were seen on Broadway in Sunday in the Park With George and she was beginning work on a Sweet Charity revival and Into The Woods.

Barbara Matera, LTD, New York, NY/preeminent Broadway costume house
Runner/assistant

Actors, Inc., Ames, IA
Into The Woods

Old Creamery Theater, Amana IA
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (two productions)

American Heartland Theater, Kansas City, MO
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  starring Deborah Raffin
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect up?

Theater By the Sea, Matunuck, RI
My One and Only
Sweet Charity
Sugar Babies
Hansel and Gretel

Des Moines Playhouse
, Des Moines, IA

Staff costume designer and shop manager for the following productions:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Don't Drink the Water
Annie
Agnes of God
Fools
Crimes of the Heart
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
A Christmas Carol (two productions)
Sherlock Holmes
The Pirates of Penzance
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The King and I
Philadelphia Story
Terra Nova
Play it Again, Sam
Tom Sawyer
Evita
Barefoot in the Park
West Side Story
Arsenic and Old Lace
Balm in Gilead
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Foreigner
Pinocchio
Alice in Wonderland
Anything Goes
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Noises Off
The Little Foxes
42nd Street

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Another Part of the Forest
The Merry Widow

Simpson College
, Indianola, IA

The Nativity; Part One of the Passion

Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Chicago

Drama Workshop
, Des Moines, IA

Jesus Christ Superstar
Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett)
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Cedar Rapids Community Theater/University of Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA
Pippin

The Wherehouse
, Des Moines, IA

Godspell (two productions)

Arizona Broadway Theater
Oklahoma! (Broadway World "Best Costume Design/Professional" award)

Liza Minnelli
I met Liza when I performed Che in a production of Evita for which I also designed the costumes. After corresponding, she asked that I design a few costumes for her.


Film and Television

Dove Productions, Hollywood, CA/Michael Viner producer
Sidney Sheldon's Memories of Midnight starring Jane Seymour and Omar Sharif

Pzazz Designs and Embroidery, Hollywood, CA
Worked in various aspects of construction of costumes for Dreamgirls L.A company, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, Ringling Brother's Barnum and Bailey Circus among others. Worked with designers Bill Hargate (Murphy Brown, Barbara Mandrell) and Nick Sherlock.

Education

University of Iowa/undergraduate studies in Theater Arts
Simpson College/undergraduate studies in Theater Arts

While working on a term paper at Simpson College, I corresponded with Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt who eventually took me on as her intern. Patricia and her friend, Bill Hargate (for whom I worked at Pzazz Designs in Hollywood) advised me to continue on with my career and not return to studies. I had taken all of the prescribed costume design courses and practicums and was already designing productions, professionally.


Other

Internships and assistant positions were offered to me by Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie, Roy Mazza at Twentieth Century Fox and Bill Hargate but I was unable to relocate to Hollywood at the time. I was honored to have the offers.

Patrick Michael Designs
, West Des Moines, IA

Owner
Worked with private clients to design and create special occasion and bridal gowns

Patrick Lose Studios, Phoenix, AZ
Owner/Designer/Author
Textiles/surface designer and author/editor of instructional books, magazines and individual patterns. Designer of embroideries, digitized for use in computerized professional and domestic embroidery machines.