LAUREL
LAUREL
vocal artist/voice educator
Designer
My background in design comes from costume design, specializing in operatic productions. At Oregon State University, I studied both apparel design and vocal performance and would often design for shows that I was also singing in.
Lately, I have extended my design experience to creating educational handouts, web page design, and promotional materials for my website www.voicescienceworks.org.
costume design
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
OSU University Theatre Bard in the Quad, 2012
Job: Head Costume Designer
Tasks: Designing and rendering costumes, purchasing fabric and notions, communicating and editing designs with the pattern maker, managing the timetables of three seamstresses and overseeing the construction of all garments
Budget $1,500
Opera Scenes
OSU Opera Workshop
2008-2013
Job: Costume and Props Coordinator
Tasks: Working with the director to design a visual concept, pulling, purchasing secondhand, sewing and coordinating all costume pieces and props
Budget: $50-200
educational materials
I regularly design printed and web materials to help translate complex topics from the world of voice science into digestible, visually clarifying explanations. The intended audience is voice instructors, choral instructors and singers who wish to have more straight forward access to recent (and often confusing) research on the voice. These materials are used in workshops, college visits, and available with free access through my website www.voicescienceworks.org.
web design and publications
Through platforms like Weebly, Wix and MotoMS I have created and maintained several unique and inviting websites that attract upwards of 20,000 visitors a week, including
www.voicescienceworks.org
www.slashes.org
www.laurelirene.com (welcome!)
work experience
Content Creator
VoiceScienceWorks
Webpage design, printed materials, educational handouts
2015-present
Head Costume Designer
Oregon State University, University Theatre
March- May, 2011; Summer, 2012
Assistant to the Costume Designer
Oregon State University, University Theatre
2011-2012
Costume, props and set piece Coordinator
OSU Opera Workshop Scenes
2008-2013
courses
Technology
Costume design by production
Theatre & opera scenes