Holly Poe Durbin Professor, Head of Costume Design & Management

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Holly began her first professional costume job at the age of 19. Her career spans theater, US national tours, world tours, television and independent film, opera, and themed entertainment.  Her work appeared on London’s West End, Broadway, Off Broadway, in Italy, China, Japan, the UK, Germany, Spain and Israel. Her film & tv career includes every level of work from set costumer, costume production management, wardrobe supervisor and costume designer.  Holly received her BA from Vanderbilt University, completing a post-baccalaureate Costume Management internship at the Royal Opera in London. She worked her way up through the apprentice program at the Santa Fe Opera eventually becoming the Costume Director for Opera Theater of St Louis, the St Louis Repertory Theater, Costume Director for the Center Theater Group (Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theater)  and she worked as a Assistant Designer in New York and Los Angeles.  She received her MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She is a past Western Region Board Member for the Costume Society of America, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for U/RTA.  Holly won USITT’s Herbert D. Greggs Award for innovative writing about theater design and technology in the journal TD & T for a three part series of articles titled Seeing With Three Eyes:  Designing for Different Media.  She has written two books: The Costume Designs of Ann Roth and The Costume Designer’s Toolkit. She is currently working on a new book about styling American Menswear for theater, film and TV costume designers.

Marcy Froehlich Associate Chair Donor Relations, Associate Professor Costume Design & Management

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Marcy has designed costumes for a wide variety of venues, both in the US and abroad. For theater in Los Angeles, she has garnered seven Ovation nominations for her work, the most recent one for Last Train to Nibroc at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura. For stage she has designed for various venues in the New York City and Los Angeles area, including Opera Francais, Long Beach Opera (Orpheus and Euridice at an Olympic swimming pool), Reprise, the CLO at South Bay, and a national tour for McCoy Rigby (Camelot starring Michael York, then Lou Diamond Philips). For 15 seasons she has immersed herself in musicals at Sacramento Music Circus: some favorite shows include Les Miserables, Big River, Pirates of Penzance, and Cats. Her design for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was seen in Sacramento as well as La Mirada. She also designed two seasons at Central City Opera with the renowned director Ken Cazan. Before moving to Los Angeles she was the Associate Costume Designer on touring productions of Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera, and internationally was the Assistant Designer in Rome, Tokyo, and Rotterdam for Robert Wilson’s multi-national opera The Civil Wars.

Her film and TV design includes Unbowed, Brake, the Unknown Cyclist, We Shall Remain (the PBS documentary on the Cherokee Trail of Tears), and the Miss America Pageant (19 years). She has been the Assistant Designer on such noteworthy film and TV projects as The Master, The Road to Perdition, American Beauty, For Your Consideration, and Geppetto, (for which she received an Emmy nomination). Other design work includes Warner Brothers theme park in Germany, various commercials, documentaries, and industrials.

Marcy has exhibited her artwork in LA at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, and has served on the Board of Directors, and Board of Trustees of the Costume Designers Guild. She was a contributing author of articles on costume history for their magazine for 6 years. She is a member of the Television Academy and has often served as a judge for their costume internship, as well as serving on the entrance committee for United Scenic Artists.

She is co-author of the comprehensive costume sourcebook Shopping LA: The Insiders’ Sourcebook for Film & Fashion. She has previously taught at SUNY, New Paltz, Santa Barbara City College and UCLA.

Jenn Dugan Costume Shop Manager, Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Jenn Dugan is delighted to have landed her dream job as Costume Shop Manager at UCI.  Jenn hails from Upstate NY.  She has previously been the Costume Director of Glimmerglass Festival, Costume Shop Manager of Weston Playhouse and the owner of The Makeup Curio providing educational workshops in hair and makeup. Her background includes shop management, wardrobe supervising, draping, stitching, crafts, and hair and makeup. She loves being a part of an education platform to mentor students into professional careers. Hobbies include painting, beach walks, seeing shows and trivia nights.