A History of the Theatre Costume Business: Creators of Character

About Gregory DL MorrisRachel E. PollockTriffin I. Morris

Triffin I. Morris is head of the graduate costume production program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Milly S. Barranger Distinguished Professor of the Practice and costume director of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She has worked at Radio City Music Hall Tricorne Eric Winterling the Metropolitan Opera and many others making costumes for Broadway shows opera and dance over a 20-year career. She worked on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Margaritaville The Rockettes Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Wicked Cinderella Matilda and Shrek among many others. She has worked with such designers as William Ivey Long Paul Tazewell Ann Roth Jane Greenwood Gregg Barnes and Emelio Sosa.Gregory DL Morris has 35 years experience as a business journalist and historian having reported from all 50 states eight Canadian provinces and 17 countries on five continents. He earned a BS in Journalism and Education with a distinction in all subjects from Cornell University. He is a second-generation native New Yorker a member of the Overseas Press Club and sits on the Editorial Board of the Museum of American Financial History a Smithsonian Affiliate.Rachel E. Pollock is costume crafts artisan and lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was resident lead crafts artisan and dyer for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University then worked in Los Angeles on film television and opera. She has served as a crafts artisan dyer and milliner for such designers as Catherine Zuber Ann Hould-Ward Ilona Somogyi David Zinn Constance Hoffman and Julie Taymor. She has also worked as a dyer and first hand at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares Ltd. on shows such as Hamilton Lion King and Frozen.