CV/Work Experience
Jackie Olivia
Custom • Wearable • Art
ByJackieOlivia@gmail.com • Boston, MA
Skills and capabilities:
• Costume Design & Rendering • Hand Stitching & Machine Sewing Skills
• Fabric cutting and layout
• Pattern Drafting & Draping
• Wardrobe duties: Laundering, Pressing, Set-Show, Dressing & Changing
• Wig Styling • Hair and Makeup Application • Photo/Shoot Styling
• Prop Making• Budgeting & Record Keeping • Crafts & Artisan skills •Custom Commissions • Private Lessons • Workshop Teaching
•Design Work Features•
O.P.C - Eve Ensler, World Premiere; American Repertory Theatre; Main Stage, Fall 2014
•Trashion Artist Dir. Pesha Rudnick Loeb Drama Center
•Costume Crafts
-Original designs and creations worn & used by lead character, a “freegan,dumpster diving, trash fashion artist”
-Additional designs appeared as props and set dressings •Costume Design by ESOSA
•Costume Designer; The Penny Jive - New Works Series
American Repertory Theatre; Aug & Sept 2013
Dir. M. Ripley CLUB OBERON
Harvard Square, Cambridge MA
Original Design and construction for a jazzed up, Electro-Swing re-telling of Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera”, which included custom built costumes for cast (6), live band (5), and extras.
Valencia - by Andre Obin, Music Video Dir. Theodore Cormey Released: 2012
•Prop Designer: Custom Nutcrackers featured in special effects scene (2min 15sec -2min 43sec)
•2013 Boston Music Award Nominee for Best Video•
•Professional Experience Highlights •
Staff Positions:
Costume Supervisor and Wardrobe Supervisor: Boston Early Music Festival
June 2023-Present
Costume Shop Production Assistant: The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College
Nov 2024- Present
Don Quichotte
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series 2024
•Costume Shop Supervisor •Wardrobe Supervisor
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston MA December 2024
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy NY December 2024
The Nutcracker
The Boston Ballet
•Hair, Wig, and Makeup Artist/Technician
Citizens Opera House, Boston MA December 2024
The Fall Experience
The Boston Ballet
•Hair and Makeup Artist/Technician
Citizens Opera House, Boston MA November 2024
Die Fledermaus
New England Conservatory
•Wardrobe Technician
New England Conservatory, Boston MA April 2024
Dragon of Wantley
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series 2023
•Costume Shop Supervisor •Wardrobe Supervisor
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston MA November 2023
Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami FL November 2023
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy NY December 2023
Heart of Brick
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA October 2023
•Wardrobe •Dresser
Anoushka Shankar
Global Arts Live Boston, MA October 2023
•Wardrobe
Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
Addams Family Wheelock Theater at Boston University
Boston, MA October 2023
•Costume Stitcher
Circé Boston Early Music Festival
Boston, MA June 2023
•Wardrobe Supervisor Majestic Theater, Boston MA
Evita American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, MA May 2023
•Costume Stitcher Loeb Theater, Cambridge MA
Iphigénie en Tauride Boston Baroque
Boston, MA April 2023
• Hair and Makeup Artist WGBH Boston
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Cirriculum II
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA March 2023
•Wardrobe • Dresser •Body Paint Artist
Make Way for Ducklings
Wheelock Theater at Boston University Feb/March 2023
•Costume Stitcher Boston, MA
Lully & Charpentier Boston Early Music Festival
Chamber Opera Series Nov/Dec 2022
•Costume Stitcher •Dresser
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, Morgan Library and Museum, NYC
A Christmas Carol North Shore Music Theater Nov/Dec 2021
•Costume Stitcher •Run crew Beverly, MA
Mamma Mia! North Shore Music Theater Fall 2021
•Costume Stitcher •Wardrobe crew Beverly, MA
Songs of a Convalescent Ayn Rand American Repertory Theatre Fall/October 2015
•Wardrobe Supervisor • Hair & Makeup Artist
Club OBERON, Cambridge MA
A Christmas Carol The Palace Theater Winter/Nov. 2015
•Stitcher •Costume Crafts Manchester, NH
Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 - Live Music Performance October 2016
•Wardrobe Cary Hall, Lexington, MA
Giulio Cesare - Boston Baroque Spring/April 2017
•Wardrobe •Stage Hand Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Galleries • Awards
•Trashion Wearable Art- Loeb Theater, A.R.T, Cambridge Gallery Artist in Residence
, Interactive Lobby Experience for World Premeire of O.P.C Nov. 2014 - Jan.2015
•The Card Dress; First Runner Up Somerville Trash Bash, a Recycled Arts Competition May 2013
•The Comic Book Dress; Voted #1 Audience Favorite, Second Runner Up
Somerville Trash Bash, a Recycled Arts Competition May 2014
•Academic Excellence Award University of New Hampshire, 2008
For outstanding writing and academic research in one’s major field of study- Constitutional America
•Student Research Award University of New Hampshire, 2008
“Entertaining the Cold War: An Exploration of the Cold War Era through Pop Culture and Media Entertainment”
Interactive booth with movies, music, comics, & magazines - First Runner Up
•Student Research Award University of New Hampshire, 2007
“Dressing for the Roles: Looking at Fashion as a Means of Social, Political, and Gender Expression on a Popular & Mass Scale From the 1920’s through Today”
Featured hand crafted, costume replicas to demonstrate period examples of fashion trends through decades - Top Round Finalist
•Christa McAuliffe Scholarship for Future Teachers The American Legion, Exclusive Winner 2003