CCM - Costume Design & Technology

					Dean Mogle Professor/Head Costume Design & Technology BA, Moorhead State University MFA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln CCM faculty member since 1989 Has designed over 100 productions of drama, musical theatre, opera, and dance Former resident costume designer/professor at the University of South Dakota (30 productions) Resident and guest costume designer for the Black Hills Playhouse (more than 35 productions) Resident costume designer for the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre (30 productions) Guest designer for the F-M Civic Opera and Modern Dance companies, Nebraska and New Mexico Repertory Theatres, as well as the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Cincinnati Ballet Recent costume designs for CCM include: Pelleas et Melisande The Wild Party Dracula Rusalka Grand Hotel Il Viaggio a Reims The Secret Garden The Rake's Progress Lend Me a Tenor Babes in Arms Blithe Spirit Chicago The Cunning Little Vixen Flea in Her Ear Into the Woods Zaide (world premiere) Cendrillon A Midsummer Nights Dream Trojan Women Lady Be Good Don Giovanni Recent awards include: First place National Opera Association Awards for Rake's Progress, Seasons in Hell, Vixen, La Boheme, and Midsummer Nights Dream and more USITT-Ohio Peggy Ezekiel design awards for Vixen ,Chicago ,Flea , and Midsummer Nights Dream (for CCM), Othello (for the New Mexico Repertory), Macbeth and King Lear (Utah Shakespeare) and Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet) Local, regional and national lecturer, panelist, workshop presenter, and adjudicator Frequently exhibiting fiber artist and painter Member, United Scenic Artists-829








					Regina Truhart Assistant Professor of Costume Technology BA, (Drama) California State University, Sacramento BM, (Music) California State University, Sacramento MFA, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Her past teaching appointments have included three academic years at University of Florida’s School of Theater and Dance and one academic year at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Professional Theater Training Program, Her teaching style is supportive but with high standards, adapting pedagogical methods to each situation and inspiring students to achieve more than they had thought possible. Classes she teaches include: pattern drafting, draping, costume crafts, painting/dying and millinery. Ms. Truhart’s extensive professional experience includes two years as a draper at the Washington DC National Opera under artistic director Placido Domingo. During that time she was part of the draping team that premiered use of Luminex fiber-optic fabric in the US, in the production of Aida. She has also been draper for the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Tony Award-winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and the Cincinnati and Dayton Operas. She has been the costume director and shop manager for the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati, and for Opera Theater of Lucca (in Lucca, Italy), where she also designed the Italian premiere of Procedure Penale. In the course of her work she has collaborated with Tony Award-winning US and international designers and directors, and has soothed and flattered various divas from all over the world. Ms. Truhart’s design and technical work has been favorably reviewed in the major publications Opera and Opera News. Her awards include the United States Institute of Technical Theater Award of Distinction, the National Opera Association video competition first place, and from the American College Theater Festival, the Kate Drain Lawson Award and Scholarship.

					Rebecca Senske Rebecca Senske is associate costume designer at CCM. Recent credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Side Man and Alice in Wonderland for Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Dirt Songs and Air and Dreams for Shawn Womack Dance Projects, Judith Mikita and Friends' Forsooth for the Aronoff Center's grand opening celebration and costume consultant for Cheryl Wallace's Update at the Aronoff Center for the Contemporary Dance Theater's 25th Anniversary Season Concert in 1998. Her many CCM productions include Hot Summer Nights 1998-2001, Man of La Mancha, The Hot Mikado, Sweet Charity, Turn of the Screw, the opera video Iphigenia in Tauris, The Coronation of Poppea, Big River and Little Me. Ms. Senske also designed costumes for Traveler in the Dark for the York Theater in New York City, Crossing Delancy in Albany, N.Y., and the singers on the Bugs Bunny float in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She served as associate costume designer for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for ten years.


					David Arevalo Theater Costume Technician David is a graduate of the Univeristy of Texas, Austin.