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For three years, Katharine Tate has been involved with the costume crews for the theater department, helping design costumes for the different productions. However, Tate has been able to showcase her creativity by designing and creating the costumes herself for an upcoming show.

“This is my first realized design production for God of Carnage, which goes up next week,” Tate said.

For three and a half weeks, she has been in the process of creating the costumes.

“The process starts by just basic reading the script, most designers read the script at least three times before they even put pen to paper, and then you can start collecting ideas and images and inspiration. And there’s a ton of different methods for doing designs, but for this one, we did collages, so I pulled images and inspiration and made collages for each character for the show,” Tate said.

Tate says the theater department has helped her gain an understanding for the real world experiences by having to bid her designs and pitch her ideas.

Tate already has a plan for when she graduates.

“I’d really like to get on probably with a touring show, as a dresser or designer and I’d really like to tour internationally,” she said.