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  "basics": {
    "name": "Erika Van Horsten Krause",
    "label": "Cutter/Draper / Costume Technician / Instructor",
    "email": "krauseen@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://erikakrausecostumes.com",
    "summary": "I'm a Boston-based draper, costume technician and instructor. My passion is pattern creation and achieving the perfect fit.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Boston",
      "region": "MA",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Emerson College faculty page",
        "url": "https://emerson.edu/faculty/erika-krause/"
      },
      {
        "network": "YouTube (CLO3D tutorials)",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@erikakrause3044"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Emerson College",
      "position": "Cutter/Draper and Part-Time Faculty",
      "location": "Boston, MA",
      "description": "Department of Performing Arts",
      "startDate": "2025",
      "summary": "Pattern and build costumes for Emerson Stage productions, lead students through fitting notes, and teach Digital Draping (CLO3D) alongside traditional technique.",
      "highlights": [
        "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee",
        "Julius Caesar",
        "The Great God Pan",
        "Sweet Charity",
        "Barbecue",
        "Starting Here, Starting Now"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Arena Stage",
      "position": "Draper",
      "location": "Washington, D.C.",
      "startDate": "2022-11",
      "endDate": "2025",
      "summary": "Patterned every garment assigned to my team and led my first hand and stitchers through each build, working in fittings to keep actors comfortable while protecting the designer's vision.",
      "highlights": [
        "Ride the Cyclone",
        "The High Ground",
        "Exclusion",
        "POTUS",
        "Swept Away",
        "Mindplay",
        "Tempestuous Elements",
        "Unknown Soldier",
        "The Migration",
        "Jaja's African Hair Braiding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Olney Theatre Center",
      "position": "Cutter/Draper",
      "location": "Olney, MD",
      "startDate": "2021-09",
      "endDate": "2022-11",
      "summary": "Sole draper: patterned and cut every build and guided apprentices through construction, flexing plans to have garments ready for fittings and tech.",
      "highlights": [
        "Hedwig and the Angry Inch",
        "Beauty and the Beast"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Washington National Opera",
      "position": "First Hand",
      "location": "Washington, D.C.",
      "startDate": "2018-07",
      "endDate": "2020-08",
      "summary": "Cut the draper's patterns, stitched, relayed notes to stitchers and attended fittings and dress rehearsals across multiple operas on tight deadlines. Draper for Faust (2019), leading my own team.",
      "highlights": [
        "Faust (draper, 2019)",
        "Tosca",
        "Samson and Delilah"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "University of Maryland, Baltimore County",
      "position": "Assistant Costume Shop Manager",
      "location": "Catonsville, MD",
      "startDate": "2017-08",
      "endDate": "2018-07"
    },
    {
      "name": "Stonehill College",
      "position": "Draper",
      "location": "Easton, MA",
      "startDate": "2017-03",
      "endDate": "2017-04",
      "highlights": [
        "As You Like It"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Boston Ballet",
      "position": "Intern, then Junior Stitcher",
      "location": "Boston, MA",
      "startDate": "2016-09",
      "endDate": "2016-12",
      "highlights": [
        "The Nutcracker",
        "The Sleeping Beauty"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "American Shakespeare Center",
      "position": "Costume Design Assistant",
      "location": "Staunton, VA",
      "startDate": "2016-08",
      "endDate": "2016-09",
      "summary": "Two Gentlemen of Verona, designer Tricia Emlet.",
      "highlights": [
        "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Zeno Entertainment (Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire)",
      "position": "Draper, First Hand, Stitcher",
      "location": "Manheim, PA",
      "startDate": "2014",
      "endDate": "2016",
      "summary": "Three summer seasons of 16th-century menswear for the faire's acting company: stitcher (2014), first hand (2015), draper (2016)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Barter Theatre",
      "position": "First Hand",
      "location": "Abingdon, VA",
      "startDate": "2013-04",
      "endDate": "2014-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Kiss Me, Kate!",
        "Les Misérables",
        "A Streetcar Named Desire"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Northern Stage",
      "position": "Wardrobe Supervisor",
      "location": "White River Junction, VT",
      "startDate": "2012-09",
      "endDate": "2013-03",
      "highlights": [
        "Sleuth",
        "Peter Pan",
        "Born Yesterday"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "TriArts Sharon Playhouse",
      "position": "Stitcher, Dresser",
      "location": "Sharon, CT",
      "startDate": "2012-05",
      "endDate": "2012-08"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wolf Trap Opera",
      "position": "Costume Intern",
      "location": "Vienna, VA",
      "startDate": "2011-05",
      "endDate": "2011-08",
      "highlights": [
        "Le Donne Curiose",
        "The Tales of Hoffmann",
        "Sweeney Todd"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "James Madison University, School of Theatre and Dance",
      "position": "Costume Shop Assistant",
      "location": "Harrisonburg, VA",
      "startDate": "2009-09",
      "endDate": "2012-05"
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Boston University",
      "studyType": "MFA",
      "area": "Costume Production",
      "endDate": "2017"
    },
    {
      "institution": "James Madison University",
      "studyType": "BA",
      "area": "Theatre",
      "endDate": "2012"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Draping and flat patterning"
    },
    {
      "name": "Digital pattern drafting (CLO3D)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Historic and modern tailoring"
    },
    {
      "name": "16th-century menswear"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bridal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fabric manipulation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Millinery"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wig styling and maintenance"
    },
    {
      "name": "Prosthetic application"
    },
    {
      "name": "Casting and mold making"
    },
    {
      "name": "Body padding and modification"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shoe painting"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wardrobe and dressing"
    },
    {
      "name": "Industrial and domestic sewing and overlock machines"
    },
    {
      "name": "Papier-mache and props"
    },
    {
      "name": "Teaching"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Sloper",
      "description": "Drafting a bodice sloper in CLO3D's 2D pattern window, using Ingham and Covey's The Costume Technician's Handbook.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPLyz4O_-Pc",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sleeve Sloper",
      "description": "Drafting a sleeve sloper and converting it to a two-piece sleeve, from The Costume Technician's Handbook.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdHaBmFdT8",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Pants Sloper",
      "description": "A pants sloper in CLO3D, drafted from Helen Joseph-Armstrong's Patternmaking for Fashion Design.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Y9P_iy93c",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "3D Draping Tool",
      "description": "Customizing the avatar and draping directly on the body with CLO3D's 3D draping pen.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHkv-wRxtE",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Corsets",
      "description": "Patterning a Georgian corset and pannier in CLO3D from Norah Waugh's Corsets and Crinolines.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2OuchF46c",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Collars, Hoods and Hats",
      "description": "Creating collars, hoods and hats in CLO3D, using drafts from Ingham and Covey's The Costume Technician's Handbook, Joseph-Armstrong's Patternmaking for Fashion Design and Dreher's From the Neck Up.",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4LAhCyJIk",
      "keywords": [
        "CLO3D",
        "teaching"
      ]
    }
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