KRISTINA SCHIRM HANSSEN, MFA E-mail:  drm_kxh@shsu.edu Costume Designer Department of Theatre & Dance Box 2297 Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas 77341 Phone: 936/294-1350 Fax: 936/294-3898

Education | Work | Designs | Experience | Classes | Skills | References

Education

• MFA University of Missouri-Kansas City-1985
• MA University of Missouri-Kansas City- 1977
• BFA Stephens College-Columbia, MO-1975

Work Experience

8/85-Present Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

• Professor-Costume Designer/Costumer
• Associate Professor from 9/94-Costume Designer/Costumer
• Assistant Professor from 8/88-8/94-Costume Designer/Costumer
• Lecturer 8/85-8/88- Costume Designer/Costumer

8/80-5/84 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

• Lecturer-Costume Designer/Costumer

9/79-6/80 Auburn University, Auburn, AL

• Guest Artist, Assistant Professor-Costume Designer/Costumer

8/78-7/79 University of Missouri-Columbia

• Instructor-Costume Designer/Costumer

8/77-5/78 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

• Lecturer-Costume Shop Foreman

8/00-10/00 Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston, TX

• Costume Designer:" The Turn of the Screw'

3/00-5/00 Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston, TX

• Costume Designer: Douglas Mitchell Play Festival- 6 one-acts

12/99-1/00 Theatre Lab, Houston, TX

• Costume Designer: Die! Mommy! Die! Run-Jan.5-Feb.13,2000

Fall '96 Educational Video Network

• Make-up Designer/Head Artist for "First Aid and CPR"

Summer '89 Walt Disney World, Orlando FL

• Costume Specialist, Disney MGM Studios

Summer '88 Texas Renaissance Festival, Plantersville, TX

• Costume Designer, Jousters and Wood Fairy

Summer '87 Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TX

• Constructed seven period costumes from the period 1825-1856

Summer '87 Texas Renaissance Festival, Plantersville, TX

• Costume Designer, King Arthur troupe

Summer '85 Missouri Repertory Theatre, Accessories Specialist

Winter '85 Missouri Repertory Theatre, Wardrobe Mistress

Summer '79 Missouri Summer Theatre, Costume Designer

Summer'78 Missouri Repertory Theatre

• Costume Assistant (duties included cutter, tailor, buyer, stitcher)

Summer '76-Winter '77 Missouri Repertory Theatre

• Costume Assistant (duties included cutter, tailor, stitcher, buyer)

Selected Costume Designs

2001:

• Fiddler on the Roof
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  

2000:

• The Tempest
• The Turn of the Screw
• Douglas Mitchell Play Festival:
  Program A: All Wrapped Up, Old Friends
  Program B: Any Old Passion, Loss of Interest
  Program C: Shatter the Golden Vessel, How to Sacrifice a Child
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Die! Mommy! Die!

1999:

• The Nutcracker
• A Doll's House
• Brigadoon
• The Scarlet Letter

1998:

• Hamlet
• A Chorus Line
• Damn Yankees
• The Merchant of Venice

1997:

• The Nutcracker
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde
• Sweeney Todd

1996:

• You Can't Take it With You
• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley
• The Pirates of Penzance
• Picnic

1995:

• Cabaret
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Funny Girl
• Arsenic and Old Lace

1994:

• Julius Caesar
• A Little Night Music
• After the Fall

1993:

• The Boys Next Door
• Mame
• No Uncertain Honor

1992:

• Twelfth Night
• The Cherry Orchard
• West Side Story
• Rumors

1991:

• The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
• Into the Woods
• A Woman in Mind

1990:

• The Misanthrope
• Summer and Smoke
• The Little Shop of Horrors
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

1989:

• The Crucible
• Camelot
• Frankenstein

1988:

• Anything Goes
• Death of a Salesman

1987:

• Amadeus
• Hello, Dolly!

1986:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Man of LaMancha
• What the Butler Saw

1985:

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

1984:

• Hedda Gabler
• The Robber Bridegroom
• Charley's Aunt

1983:

• Kurt Weill: A Musical Review
• California Suite
• Dear Liar
• The Elephant Man
• Wings

1982:

• You Can't Take it With You
• Rogers and Hart
• Prisoner of Second Avenue
• Tally's Folly
• I Never Sang for My Father
• Oedipus Rex

1981:

• A Little Night Music
• Gin Game
• Carl Sandburg
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Wait Until Dark
• The House of Blue Leaves

1980:

• Marat/Sade
• The Shadow Box
• A Flea in Her Ear
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1979:

• A Doll's House
• Private lives
• The Amorous Flea
• Our Town
• The Real Inspector Hound

1978:

• The Mouse Trap
• I Am A Woman

Related Professional Experience

• 1999-2001 Sam Houston State University-Academic Calendar Committee
• 1998-1991 Sam Houston State University-Student Service Fee Advisory Board
• 1996-1999 Sam Houston State University-Student Retention Committee
• 1997-1998 Sam Houston State University-Athletic Advisory Board
• 1994-1995 Sam Houston State University-Academic Program Review Council
• 1994-1995 Sam Houston State University-Faculty Advisor-Students With Children
• 1989-1993 Sam Houston State University-Women's Advisory Council
• 1993 Sam Houston State University-Chair-Women's Advisory Council
• 1993 Sam Houston State University-Committee on Child Care
• 1985-2000 Sam Houston State University-Advisor for student costume designers
• 1985-2000 Sam Houston State University-Undergraduate Advisor
• 1990-1991 Sam Houston State University-Faculty Senate, Senator
• 1983 Colorado State University-College Curriculum Committee
• 1980 Colorado State University- Created the first costume and make-up curriculum for the Department of Theatre and Dance
• 1984 Colorado State University-Undergraduate advisor
• 1982 Colorado State University-Committee member, Textile and Clothing Department, graduate thesis
• August 1983 Seminar for Rocky Mountain Cosmetology Association on corrective make-up
• August 2000 Make-up artist for Walker Co. Disaster Drill- gun shot wounds.
• March 1999 USITT National/International Convention-Session presenter: "Sleeves-Fit, Look, and Ease of Movement"
• November 1999 Southwest Theatre and USITT Regional Theatre Conference- Judge for the annual design competition
• February 1999 Fiber Arts Guild-Guest speaker on the art of the costume designer
• January 1997 Texas Educational Theatre Conference-Presenter-"Movement by Design"
• January 1991 Texas Educational Theatre/USITT Regional Conference-Presenter-"Designing the Actor's Movement"
• February 1988 East Texas Folk Festival-Workshop presenter- Construction of 19th Century Period Garments
• October 1986 Southwest Theatre Conference-Panelist-"I'll Show You Mine..."
• 1985-88 Member of the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston
• 1982 Assistant Program Chair for the 1982 USITT National Convention in Denver
• 1982 National Membership Committee Member for USITT
• Summer 1981 Costume Designer-Foothills Civic Theatre
• Spring 1983 Producer- Theatrical Costume Show for Colorado State University Dept. Of Theatre and Dance

University Interscholastic League Workshops

• October 2000 Skinned Alive-Latex peel over makeup muscles
• November 1999 Ageing the Young Face
• October 1998 Frankenstein's Monster
• October 1996 Blood and Guts
• October 1995 A Length of Cloth...Sew What?
• October 1994 Realistic Ageing
• October 1993 Trauma, Blood and Gore Make-up
• October 1992 Thermo Plastics and Friendly Plastic
• October 1991 Use of Crepe hair
• October 1990 Age Make-up
• October 1989 Character Make-up
• October 1988 Armor Construction
• October 1987 Theatrical Make-up
• November 1886 Movement in Period Costume
• 1998-2000 Costume rental program Coordinator- Sam Houston State University
• 1981-84 Costume rental Program Coordinator-Colorado State University

Classes Taught

• Costume Design-Beginning and Advanced
• Costume Construction
• Introduction to Theatre
• Costume History
• Pattern Drafting
• Theatrical Make-up- Beginning and Advanced
• 3-D Make-up

Related Skills

• 2&4 Harness Weaving Knitting
• Drop Spindle and Wheel Spinning Embroidery
• Needle Point Fabric Painting and Distressing
• Fabric Dyeing Mask Construction
• Prosthetic Make-up Mass Casualty Simulation Make-up
• Patience

References

Dr. James Miller, Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance, SHSU, 936/294-1328

Prof. Maureen McIntyre, Department of Theatre and Dance, SHSU, 936/294-1337

PO Box 2297, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341