Biography
kClare McKellaston is a Adjunct Faculty member and full time Costume Shop Manager with the School of Theatre and Dance. Her design work includes In Every Generation (Victory Gardens), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Music Theatre Works), Peyton Place, At Home At the Zoo, The Playboy of the Western World (City Lit), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Broken Glass, Scarcity, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Redtwist), Sycamore, The Old Friends (Raven Theatre), Spamalot, Young Frankenstein, The Last Five Years, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Metropolis).
She was previously an Adjunct Faculty member and the Costume Shop Manager at Dominican University, where she designed Waiting for Godot, Songs for A New World, and The Addams Family Musical. She has mentored and guided student designers, as well as serving as a member of portfolio review panels for senior students in the Fashion and Theatre Department.
In November 2019, kClare joined the team of artists and creators at Lookingglass Theatre Company as their Costume Shop Manager. This job was cut short by the Covid-19 Pandemic. This provided a pivot--in 2021, she joined the first season filming of The Shining Girls, and at the same time became a proud member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 769. She has worked as a Set Costumer and Background Costumer, Stylist, and Backstage Dresser for a number of productions, including The Lion King, The Prom, the Dancing with the Stars Tour, Justified: City Primeval, and We Grown Now (IMDb). kClare.comDegrees
M.A., Theatre Miami University 2007