Clare Amos
Costume
About me
I work as a costume designer, supervisor and maker, and over the past five or so years have worked on a wide variety of productions including site specific, dance, opera, musicals and new writing.
As a designer, I am interested exploring the boundaries between costume, sculpture and performance art, looking how silhouettes, forms and textures can be exploited to transformative effect.
Costume Design
Lovesong of the Electric Bear Arts Theatre, November 2015, The Hope Theatre, February 2015
Romeo & Juliet and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Aquila Theatre US National Tour, 2015/16
Once Upon a Nightmare Courtyard Theatre & Edinburgh Festival Fringe, July & August 2014
Enduring Song Bear Trap Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, June 2014
Philistines Corbett Theatre, March 2014
The Day Shall Declare It Wilderness/Theatre Delicatessen, January 2014
The Shape of Things (Associate Costume Design), Arcade Productions, Arcola Theatre, November 2013
The Door 8Fold Theatre, Park Theatre, November 2013
Fahrenheit 451 & Twelfth Night Aquila Theatre, US National Tour 2013/14
Early Days Finborough Theatre, June 2013
Microwave & The Eighth Continent Tristan Bates Theatre, May 2013
Top Girls & Victory Waterloo East Theatre, March 2013
Celebrity Night at Cafe Red (Revival) Trafalgar Studios, September 2012
The Taming of the Shrew & Cyrano de Bergerac Aquila Theatre US National Tour, 2012/13
The Hit (Set and Costume), Two Shoes and Cake, for Hotel Indigo, May 2012
Translunar Paradise Theatre Ad Infinitum, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Tour 2011
24 Lines A Film by the Astburys, April 2011
The Big Smoke Theatre Ad Infinitum, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Tour 2010
The Emperor Self Enkephale Theatre, Arcola Theatre, August 2010
Story of London Festival, November 2010
Odyssey Theatre Ad Infinitum, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Tour 2009
Women of Manhattan (Set and Costume), Old Red Lion Theatre, November 2009
Breathing Broadsheets St Bride Foundation, Story of London Festival, April 2009
'Dentity Crisis Occam's Razor Theatre Company, Kings Head Theatre July 2007
2+2+2 Axis of Evil Theatre Company, Kings Head Theatre, July 2007
Costume Supervision
Oliver! Leicester Curve, December 2015
Mephisto Milton Court Theatre, October 2015
East is East UK Tour, June 2015
Three Birds Alighting on a Field Tristan Bates Theatre, May 2015
Between Empires, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2013
One Hour Eighteen Minutes, Sputnik Theatre, New Diorama, November 2012
Twelfth Night & Masters Are You Mad? Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Season 2012
As You Like It & Merlin and the Woods of Time Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Season 2011
Dusk Ring A Bell, Incoming, Midnight Your Time & Nicked Hightide Festival,Halesworth, April - May 2011
Silent Opera: Dido & Aeneas Old Vic New Voices/Coming Up Festival, March 2011
Hercules & Much Ado about Nothing Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Season 2010
Lidless Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Trafalgar Studios, Aug, 2010, March 2011
Ditch Hightide, Old Vic Tunnels, May 2010
Ditch, Lidless & Moscow Live Hightide Festival, Halesworth, April – May 2010
A Christmas Carol Mokitagrit Productions, Kings Head Theatre, Christmas 2009
Costume Construction
Lady Magician Act 1950s Burlesque Costume, Madame JoJos, November 2013
TaroqComic Eden costume for Comic Con 2012
Ludd & Isis, Royal Opera, Purfleet, October – November 2010
Wet Weather Cover Kings Head Theatre, January 2010
Annie Get Your Gun Young Vic Theatre, September – October 2009
Once More With Feeling Oriana Fox live art performance, Tate Modern, July 2009
Royal Opera House Freelance Costume Assistant, Production Support Department, April – May 2009
Kellerman Imitating the Dog, Cochrane Theatre and Tour, Spring 2008
Peter Pan Mokitagrit Productions, The Kings Head Theatre, December 2006 – January 2007
Education and Training
London College of Fashion
MA Costume Design for Performance
2007 - 2009
University of Leeds
BA English Literature
1999 - 2002
Short Courses
Draping on the Stand, London College of Fashion, Oct – Nov 2006
Intensive Pattern Cutting Workshop, London College of Fashion, Jan – Mar 2006
Evening and Partywear Advanced Pattern Cutting Workshop, London College of Fashion, Jan – Mar 2007
Practical Skills
Historical and modern pattern cutting
Men’s and women’s costume construction techniques
Draping on the stand
Buying and fabric sourcing
Fittings, alterations and repairs
Budget management
Costume distressing
Breaking Down
Dyeing and dye effects
Equipment
Domestic sewing machine
Domestic overlocker
2010 - present
2010 - present