Costume Shop Manager Costume Shop Manager
Alexa Cassandra Duimstra (Cass) is a costume designer and technician working predominately in the DC Metro Area. She has been working professionally as a costume technician for fourteen years, most recently specializing in ager/dyer and craft work. She has worked for Signature Theatre, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Roundhouse Theatre, Synetic and others.
She has an MFA in Costume Design from University of Maryland College Park and a BA from Hope College in Theatre, Studio Art and French. She spent the Covid theatre shutdown as a floating intern in the Historic Trades department at Colonial Williamsburg and has an unusual amount of knowledge about 18th century American manufacturing as a result.