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QSM Authors
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Bonnie Holt Ambrose has been designing, cutting and maintaining costumes in her own theatrical supply company for over 25 years. Ambrose supplies costume shows to many light opera companies, Gilbert & Sullivan performance groups and educational theatre productions.
The patterns she designs are for theatrical use but are also popular with re-enactment groups.
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Janet Arnold was a historian of fashion, which combined her two greatest passions: the theatre and clothes. Her early books were conceived as aids for the fashion and theatre students she taught, but as her unique range and depth of knowledge became apparent, more and more museums and other institutions sought her advice and, today, her books are essential tools for the study of dress and have been used throughout the world. Jenny Tiramani was Janet's last pupil and during the first ten years of Shakespeare's Globe she worked with Janet's published patterns to realize accurate copies of the original garments and their accessories. Santina Levey is Janet Arnold's Literary Executor and a historian of fashion.
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William Ball founded the American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in 1965 and was its general director for many years. Beginning in the theatre as a designer, he turned to acting and appeared with regional companies and Shakespeare festivals across the country. He made his New York directorial debut with an Off Broadway production of Chekhov's Ivanov which won the Obie and Vernon Rice Drama Desk Awards for 1958. He subsequently directed at Houston's Alley Theatre; San Francisco's Actor's Workshop; Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage; San Diego's Old Globe Theatre; and staged several New York City Opera productions. His 1959 Off Broadway production of Under Milk Wood won both the Lola D'Annunzio and the Outer Circle Critics' Awards, and in 1962 his Six Characters in Search of an Author proved another multiple award winner and had an extended New York run. After directing at Canada's Stratford Festival, Mr. Ball returned to New York to write the libretto, with composer Lee Hoiby for an opera, Natalya Petrovna, based on A Month in the Country. In 1964 he directed Tartuffe and Homage to Shakespeare at Lincoln Center and then traveled to London to recreate his staging of Six Characters.
A native of New Rochelle and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Ball has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, a Ford Foundation directorial grant, and an NBC RCA director's fellowship. Of his many productions for A.C.T., three were also directed for PBS television, including The Taming of the Shrew, for which he was nominated by the Television Critics' Circle as best director of the year. In June 1979, Mr. Ball accepted the Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Award voted to A.C.T. for its outstanding work in repertory performance and advanced theatre training. In the same year, Carnegie Mellon University presented him with an honorary degree as Doctor of Fine Arts. He was active as a teacher and director in A.C.T.'s conservatory training program.
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Linda Baumgarten is the Curator of Textiles at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where she has worked since 1978. She is also the author of Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg now in its fourth printing.
Assisting Baumgarten with the pattern production are Florine Carr, textile specialist and docent with the Bayou Bend Museum in Houston, and John Watson, Instruments Conservator at Colonial Williamsburg and a specialist in computerized recording of antiques.
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Nancy Bradfield leading authority in her field is the author of Historical Costume of England: 1066-1968 and Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930
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Caldarone is a busy feelance director who has been involved in actor training in leading schools for the past twenty years.
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Textile specialist with the Bayou Bend Museum in Houston, she assisted Linda Baumgarten and John Watson with patter production for Costume Close-Up .
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Louis Colaianni is the author of The Joy of Phonetics and Accents (Drama Publishers, 1994)and Shakespeare’s Names: A New Pronouncing Dictionary (Drama Publishers, 1999.) He has given workshops and lectures internationally on Voice Production, Speech and Phonetics.
His commentary has been heard on Public Radio International and BBC Radio. His unique approach to phonetics and stage accents is used by dozens of theatre schools throughout the Nation.
Since 1990, he has taught graduate level Voice and Speech in the nationally ranked Professional Actor Training Program of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Theatre.
Colaianni is Voice and Dialect Coach at Missouri Repertory Theatre where he has worked on a wide variety of productions, including: Our Town, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Richard III, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Antigone, and Oedipus Rex. Additionally, Colaianni serves as Resident Voice and Speech Coach for National Public radio affiliate KCUR.
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David M. Conte is a theatre manager working on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. He is also an experienced manager of musicals on the road. Additional credits include work in regional theatre and touring international ballet and opera companies. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
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Costantino is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at Surry Institute of Art and Design in England. Her books include Fashion Files: Designers and Fashions of a Decade: The 1930s as well as other titles on art and design.
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Valerie Cumming is a lecturer and writer who has been Costume and Textile curator at the Museum of London and the Court Dress Collection, Kensington Palace. She has been visiting lecturer at the Courtaud Institute of Art. She is also the author of The Visual History of Costume Accessories, The Visual History of Costume (with Aileen Riberio), A Visual History of Costume in the 17th Century, Costume History 1500-1900, and Gloves in the Costume Accessories series.
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Elizabeth Ewing has written widely on fashion as well as on theatre and drama. He books include Everyday Dress, Dress and Undress, and History of Children’s Costume.
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Giuliano Folledore has worked in publicity, public relations, cinema and television advertising in the men's fashion sector. An expert on the 19th Century--especially 19th Century clothing--Folledore lives and works in Trieste.
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Avril Hart MBE, formerly Assistant Curator of the Department of Textiles and Dress at the V&A museum, lectures extensively. Her published work includes Englishmen’s Fashionable Dress 1600-1799 and the section on men’s dress in the bestselling Four Hundred Years of Fashion.
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Bob Hofmann is President of Broadway Inbound, a leader in sales of volume tickets for North American stage entertainment. He is a respected authority on Broadway sales and marketing, and on the interface between commercial stage entertainment and the world tourism industry.
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Katherine Strand Holkeboer is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Eastern Michigan University. A costume designer for over 20 years, she has designed more than 120 theatre productions.
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Santina M. Levey is Keeper of the Department of Textiles and Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This is the largest textiles department in the world and it houses an incomparable collection of lace.
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Co-author with Robin L. McGee. They are both professional costume artisans who live and work in New York City.
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Kristin Linklater is one of the best-known teachers of voice production for actors in the world of actor-training. Having trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art she has been based in the United States since 1963 and has spent most of her professional life teaching in theatre companies and actor-training programs throughout America and Europe.
In the 1960’s and 70’s she worked with the Festival Theatre Stratford in Canada, the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the Royal Shakespeare Company and with the leading experimental theatre groups of the time including Joseph Chaiken’s Open Theatre and Andre Gregory’s The Manhattan Project in New York and Peter Brook’s Centre de Recherche in Paris. She was Master Teacher of Voice from 1965 to 1978 at New York University’s Graduate Theatre program and then spent the next 12 years teaching and acting for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. From 1990 to 1996 she was Professor of Theatre at Emerson College in Boston and from 1997 to the present she has been Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University in New York where she is also Chair of the Theatre Division.
Since 1965 she has conducted teacher-training programs that rigorously train teachers how to teach her methods. Designated Linklater teachers now teach in all major actor-training programs in the U.S. including Yale School of Drama, the Tisch School of the Arts, CalArts, Boston University, the University of Washington, Syracuse University, Dartmouth, etc.
Since publishing Freeing the Natural Voice in 1976, it has become the leading textbook in its field and has sold approximately 120,000 copies in America to date. She is much in demand as a lecturer and workshop leader and has led workshops in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and Russia as well as regularly in New York and elsewhere in the U.S. Her work is at the center of voice study at the National Theatre Academy in Seoul, South Korea, and her book has been translated into German and Russian.
In 1983 she received a Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants and funding from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
As a respected actress in her own right Kristin Linklater is recognized as one of the rare breed of teachers who can both “do” and teach. She is inspirational, demanding and dedicated to the release and development of voices that tell the truth and reverberate with the necessary passion to bring the stage to life. Kristin Linklater has not only revolutionized the training of actors’ voices but has made a major contribution to the whole field of actor-training.
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Maggie Lloyd-Williams has acted on stage and for television most particulary at the Royal National Theatre and Sheakespeare's Globe.
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Dr. Mackrell is a costume and art historian specializing in the history of fashion plates. She is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the author of several other costume and fashion books including An Illustrated History of Fashion, Shawls, Stoles and Scarves, Paul Poiret, and Coco Chanel.
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Jane Malcolm-Davies is director of JMD&Co, a live interpretation consultancy. She managed costumed interpretation at Hampton Court Palace from 1992 to 2004 and was lecturer in leisure management at the University of Surrey, where she gained her doctorate in heritage interpretation, until 2005. Her current work includes training front-of-house staff for historic properties, including Buckingham Palace. Jane also undertakes interpretation, evaluation and other visitor studies for heritage organisations such as The National Trust and Historic Scotland.
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Co-author with Arnold S. Levine. They are both professional costume artisans who live and work in New York City
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Bella Merlin is also the author of "Beyond Stanislavsky" and another study of Stanislavsky as well as a successful actor and university theatre teacher.
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Ninya Mikhaila has been making reproduction historical costumes since 1988. She established her business in 1994 after gaining a Higher National Diploma in Costume Interpretation at the London College of Fashion. She has been the principal maker for JMD&Co since then. Her other clients include the Royal Armouries, Historic Royal Palaces, The National Trust, English Heritage and The National Archives.
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Sian-Kate Mooney ran a clothes-making and design company which took on commissions to make latex garments for Frederick’s of Hollywood, one of America’s biggest mail order catalogues. The success of the company won them the Small Business Export Award in 1997. She now teaches fashion and design at the University of East London and continues to design on a consultancy basis.
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Sylvia Moss has worked in costume for more than 35 years. Her costumes have been seen nationally in film, television and on stage. She was professor of costume design at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her research has taken her throughout Europe and Asia.
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Trevor O’Donnell is marketing consultant, writer, speaker, trainer, and one of North America’s foremost authorities on business-to-business ticket sales for live arts and entertainment. He has promoted stage entertainment on Broadway, in London, in Las Vegas and in cities across the U.S. for industry leaders such as Disney Theatrical Productions, Cameron Mackintosh, Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Productions, the Music Center of Los Angeles and many others.
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Richard Pilbrow occupies a truly unique position in the theatre. He is a West End and Broadway lighting designer. He also is a West End theatre producer and a world renowned theatre consultant as well as a film and theatre producer.
Pilbrow is a pioneer of modern stage lighting and was retained by Lord Olivier to be theatre consultant to the National Theatre of Great Britain. His lighting has been see in over 300 productions in London, New York, Paris, Vienna, and Moscow.
Nominated for many awards including the Tony, and winner of the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, and others in Toronto and Vancouver, Pilbrow is a leading figure in the world of lighting design.
He was the first British lighting designer to design the lighting for a Broadway musical, Zorba. On Broadway he was lighting designer for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Rothchilds, and at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun (1993 Tony Award nomination).
Published in 1970, his book, STAGE LIGHTING, with the forward by Lord Olivier, became a standard work in Great Britain and the United States. This new book, STAGE LIGHTING DESIGN, THE ART, THE CRAFT, THE LIFE, with forward by Hal Prince, was published in 1997 and revised in softcover in 2000. The book received a Theatre Crafts International "Lighting Product of the Year" Award for 1998.
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Ribeiro is head of the History of Dress Department at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Cumming is Deputy Director of the Museum of London.
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Jill Salen is a lecturer in costume, and has been producing patterns of corsets from private and museum collections for many years. She is widely employed in the theatrical costume industry and currently lives in Cardiff.
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Scanlon has designed for many theatre companies, worked on major television projects with Hasbro, Disney, and General Foods. He is also a long time faculty member at Brigham Young University.
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Margaret Swain has researched widely into the history of textiles, with a particulary interest in the social factors causing a certain type of needlework to be made at a given period, and published many articles on the historical background of textiles in Apollo, The Connoisseur, Country Life, The Times, Furniture History, Costume, and Embroidery.
Her books include The Flowerers (1955), Historical Needlework (1970), Figures on Fabric (1980), Ayrshire and other Whitework (1982), Scottish Embroidery: Medieval to Modern (1986), Embroidered Stuart Pictures (1990), and Embroidered Georgian Pictures (1994). Until her death in 2002, she advised and worked with institutions both in Britain and abroad,-- from Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to the Metropolitan Museum in New York—to organize exhibitions of needlework and costume, and was a popular lecturer. In 1981 she received an honorary MA from Edinburgh University, and in 1989 an MBE for her work on embroidery and tapestries.
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Emma Taylor is currently Assistant Museums Officer at the Museums and Galleries Commission, London. Formerly a curator in the Department of Textiles and Dress at the V&A Museum, she continues to lecture and research on historic dress and fans.
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Sarah Thursfield is an experienced cutter and dressmaker with a diploma in fashion and a special interest in medievl dress. She has made many garments for re-enactors and had other tailoring commissions including medieval and Tudor outfits for education and display at Leicester and Shrewsbury museums.
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Tynan, who went from Oxford to a stint as theatre critic, then chief critic, at the Evening Standard, soon moved on to an influential spell at The Observer. Tynan spent ten years as literary manager with Laurence Olivier's new National Theatre - during which time he devised and produced the notorious revue, Oh!, Calcutta!
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John Watson, Instruments Conservator at Colonial Williamsburg and a specialist in computerized recording of antiques. He is co-author with Linda Baumgarten of Costume Close-Up.
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