AUGUST 2020
Matthew is the new Tailor/Wardrobe Assistant at THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW on CBS! The show premieres on September 14, 2020. Check your local listings for times!
My earliest memories of working with costumes are childhood Halloweens. My grandmother and mother taught me to sew as they made my costume every year. Each year I learned a bit more, eventually graduating from hand sewing to using my grandma's Singer sewing machine.
Throughout middle school and high school, as I began performing professionally and studying ballet, I spent hours in the costume shop helping out and eventually building costumes for Evansville Dance Theatre as part of a work study scholarship.
At Butler University I finally had the opportunity to study costume history, theatrical costume, and costuming for dance. I managed the Butler Ballet costume warehouse whose stock contained the collection of historical costumes from the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. Regularly handling and preserving costumes built by Karinska and worn by Maria Tallchief, Alexandra Danilova, and Frederick Franklin was the daily norm. I had the wonderful opportunity to work on brand new Party Mother gowns and Waltz of the Flowers and Snow Queen tutus for The Nutcracker, men's tunics for Giselle, and ten classical tutus for the corps de ballet in Swan Lake.
After moving to New York City to pursue a career as an actor, I
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