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                                                         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 •

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

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