SAMANTHA GASHETTE
Samantha loves a good adventure, and what better job matches that attitude than the varying world of custom costumes? With every build comes new challenges, complex materials, and unique silhouettes. From draping in vinyl to creating monster puppets, no project is impossible. Graduating with her MFA in 2020 from the University of Austin, Samantha has worked on some incredible projects thus far in her career. From Fear the Walking Dead to Topo Chico and everything in between.
Her skills have seemingly no end, ranging from classic tailoring, to speciality patterning, sculpting, leather tooling, wardrobe management, to molding and mask creation.
EMMA CRAIG
Emma is a costume technician from Washington State, now based in Austin, Texas. She has worked across the country for regional theaters, opera companies, commercials, and broadway shops for the last decade. In 2022, Emma graduated with her masters in costume technology from the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded the USITT Barbara Matera Award for Costume Making.
Her specialty is larger than life projects that think outside of the usual methods or techniques, and result in breathtaking builds, puppet construction, and fine tailoring. Emma's expertise is in tailoring, draping, knitting, leather work, millinery, 3D modeling and printing, laser cutting, as well as dying and painting, distressing.
LINDSAY RAE
Lindsey Rae is a costume design MFA graduate from the University of Texas at Austin’s Live Design program. She has worked in theater costume shops across the west, including The Phoenix Theater Company, Arizona Broadway, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theater. Lindsey is also a veteran of dozens of film projects, both commercial and feature.
Her specialties include chain stitch embroidery, “bonnaz” machine operation and maintenance, industrial sewing machine use and maintenance, tailoring, pattern drafting, garment construction, leather working, shoe repair, ProCreate, Photoshop, and Lightroom.
SAM THOMAS
Sam hails from the natural state but now calls Austin home. She has worked across the south and then some. Sam earned her Masters in Costume Technology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021.
Her work has been featured in numerous theater performances at UT Austin, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, as well as the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. In television and film, you can see some of Sam’s work in Yellowstone: 1883, and the recently released Spy Kids: Armageddon.
Sam’s specialties range from 3D printing, closure techniques, hand stitching, fusion 360, cold foam prosthetics, laser cutting, domestic serger, industrial sewing, to crepe hair application and pattern manipulation.
