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Our guest is Kim Cross­ley, an accom­plished cut­ter for the Strat­ford Shake­speare The­atre and Fes­ti­val in Strat­ford Ontario and the upcom­ing Star Trek Dis­cov­ery film. In the cos­tume or wardrobe depart­ment of a theatre/​dance/​opera/​film com­pa­ny, the cut­ter is the per­son who begins the trans­la­tion of the designer’s vision to the actu­al gar­ment tak­ing it from the page to the stage.

Pho­tographs Cour­tesy of Kim Crossley 

Cos­tume 1: Red Dress, fea­ture piece in the 2014 Strat­ford Fes­ti­val pro­duc­tion of Christi­na, the Girl King. 

Design­er: Michael Gian­francesco and the chal­lenge of the piece was to cre­ate a beau­ti­ful peri­od gown that could be put on by an actress by her­self, onstage in the course of a con­ver­sa­tion in a scene. Nor­mal­ly, clothes like this have many lay­ers and clo­sures and require assis­tance to dress, but this one was rigged with sim­pli­fied front clo­sures so the actress could do it her­self quick­ly and eas­i­ly while still look­ing his­tor­i­cal­ly correct.

Cos­tume 2: Cal­iban cos­tume, body suit referred to in the inter­view, from the 2010 Strat­ford Fes­ti­val pro­duc­tion of The Tem­pest Design­er: Paul Tazewell 

Pro­duc­tion: Filmed for DVD, broad­cast and stream­ing on STRATFEST@HOME, sub­scrip­tion ser­vice avail­able from the Strat­ford Fes­ti­val web­site, link to view the cos­tume in the performance. 

Next is a selec­tion of music scored for the film series Star Trek Dis­cov­ery 2017/2018 albums by the Emmy award win­ning com­pos­er Jeff Russo. 

Song 1: Main Title Star Trek Discovery

Song 2: Burn­ham Take Over 

Song 3: First Offi­cer’s Log 

Song 4: The Lor­ca I Knew