Arts & Culture Magazine - March/April 2008 - (Page 35) By Diana Colson : : Profile Derek Lockwood b Costume Designer Extraordinaire orn in Santa Barbara, California, Derek Lockwood was the oldest in a large, blended family. His mother was a weaver who loomed her own cloth. From early childhood Derek was always drawing and making sculpture. As a young man, he discovered the magic of theater, and threw himself into acting. “Hmmmm…” he thought. “Theater plus drawing plus sculpture equals costumes. There’s a good balance!” Derek headed for a career as a costumer. Attending California Institute of Arts in Valencia, Derek took one year off to work at a costume shop in Santa Barbara called Bird Feathers & Fox Fur. In 1994, Derek graduated with a BFA in theater, with an emphasis in costume design. Derek headed for Atlanta for the next five years. Then it was off to New York City, where he lived in Hell’s Kitchen while working as assistant designer, designer, and wardrobe supervisor for a series of off-Broadway and Broadway theaters. His costume credentials are varied and impressive: clown liaison for Ringling Brothers, Barnum And Bailey Circus; assistant designer for Phantom at the Westchester Broadway Theater; stitcher for Disney‘s High School Musical On Ice; costume designer for A Doll’s House, Banyan Theater at the Asolo in Sarasota and costume designer for Sarasota Ballet of Florida. Recently, he was the costume designer for Best Seller, a new musical that opened in February at the Manatee Players Theater. Derek did Wardrobe for the Ballet Hispanico in New York, and traveled with the troupe to such exotic places as the Spoleto Festival in Italy and the VIII Festival in Antigua, Guatemala. He first came to Sarasota with the Ballet Hispanico when it played at the Van Wezel. He fell in love with the town, and now bases himself here. Derek was assistant designer on the very first shake-out production of Tale Of Two Cities at the Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack, NY— before the increasingly polished musical swept Sarasota theatergoers right off their Mephistos. Meanwhile, Derek is about to leave for 10 months doing wardrobe on an international tour with a Disney stage show. He looks forward to being in China for three of those months. Unquestionably, Derek Lockwood has created a splendid life with costumes, travel and adventure. www.artsandculturemag.com arts and culture magazine : : 35 http://www.artsandculturemag.com
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