By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (2024)

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, by Lynn Nottage

Directed by Angelisa Gillyard
Scenic Design: Josafath Reynoso
Lighting Design: John Alexander
Projection Design: Ethan Eldred
Sound Design: David Lamont Wilson

Eurydice (2024)

April, 2024

Written by Sarah Ruhl
Produced by Duke University Theater Studies
Directed by Dr. Jules Odendahl-James
Scenic Design by Sonya Drum
Costume Design by Hannah Haverkamp
Lighting Design by Jenni Becker
Sound Design by Brittany J. Green

CAST
Eurydice - Emi Hegarty, Jackie Park
Orpheus - Troy Ludwig
Lord of the Underworld/The Nasty Interesting Man - Sawyer Grovogel
Father - Leighton Brzeski
The Stones: Abigail Bergan, Kyerah Etheridge, Caroline Edmondson

Grandfathered In (2024)

A devised work-in-progress, exploring themes of ancestral belonging, grief, queer joy, and memory. A child of the near future summons a capricious, mysterious goddess to help them connect to their past, and discover whether the past remains static, or transforms within us.

Devising director: Johann Montozzi-Wood
Actor/Devisers:
Johann Montozzi-Wood, “Mo-Thu-Goddess”
Rob Beharry, “Fuel”
Jessica Fleming, “Daija”
Anthony Hudson, “Dunker”

Full credits and dramaturgy at https://diasporaqueered.com/grandfathered-in

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Thesis - Na Rusalchyn Velykden (2023)

Costume design, direction, and dramaturgy for a production of Mykola Dmitrovych Leontovych’s final, incomplete work, Na Rusalchyn Velykden (The Rusalka’s Rite).

Thesis committee and research support:

Olga Marknova Maslova, MFA (principal mentor, design and direction advisor, Ukrainian cultural and language consultant)
Dr. Valleri Robinson (dramaturgy advisor)
Dr. Julie Gunn (music advisor)
Dr. Donna Buchanan (musicology and research advisor)

Based on research started with Dr. Donna Buchanan as part of a musicology course, this piece grew to become a combination design, direction, musicology, and dramaturgy project. Over the course of the 22-23 academic year, I further developed my initial research on Leontovych, Ukrainian traditional design, and the specific cosmology of the Rusalka myth to create a “proof-of-concept” dramaturgy and design packet for a hypothetical fully-realized production. In the spring semester, I collaborated with Dr. Julie Gunn to realize a few, semi-staged scenes as part of Lyric @ Illinois’ graduate level Opera Scenes class.

I manufactured the crowns and shawl/wings, and created a lobby display triptych featuring a photoshoot and the completed costume designs, as well as information about the composer, the opera, and the design choices.

Concept sketch, first exploration of the use of shawls as wings

Defense display

First Rusalka - watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, silver leaf.

Rusalka chorus - watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, silver leaf.

New Rusalka - watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, silver leaf.

Dyeing the shawls in expanded, sometimes corrupted versions of motifs drawn from pysanky, rushnyky, and other Ukrainian folk art forms.

One of the words most frequently applied to rusalki is “transparent.” Dyed motifs overlap and blend with similar motifs created with silk chiffon reverse applique.

The most consistent motifs used in the shawls were those evoking femininity (the rose), water (meanders, ripples, zigzags), and birds (crow feet), as well as elements suggesting the wearer’s path to Heaven, and those designed to entrap unclean spirits.

Planning sketch for shawls

Photoshoot—since the opera scene wasn’t going to have any real scenic elements, I did a small photoshoot with some friends to evoke the spirit I was aiming for with this project. Sisterhood, grief, danger, comfort.
Models: Vivian Krishnan, Taylor Pfenning.
Photography and makeup assistance: Nicolas Dudit Pardo

A Little Night Music (2022)

Photographer: Darrell Hoemann

Music Director/Conductor: Julie Jordan Gunn

Stage Director: Dawn Harris

Assistant Director: Maurice Fields

Scenic Designer: Minghan Ma

Costume Designer: Hannah Haverkamp

Lighting Designer: Quinn Schuster

Sound Designer: Austin Fuoss

Associate Sound Designer: Aidan Gardner

Properties Manager: Charles Pascale

Stage Manager: Lou Williams

Costume Illustration and Unrealized Work

Commissioned costume illustrations, concept art as part of pitch packets, and unrealized production designs.

Toxic Rebirth

Signature runway piece for a conceptual collection centered around poisonous plants.

New Rusalka

Unrealized design for Na Rusalchyn Velykden, the unfinished opera by Mykola Leontovych.

Norfolk Suit

Illustration commissioned by Nicole Peckens for her tailoring MFA thesis.

The Tempest - Miranda

An unrealized production of the Tempest, exploring its colonial themes by setting it during the Hispanic colonial period in Puerto Rico. The costumes feature several native plants and animals, to differing degrees based on their relationship with the island.

The Tempest - Prospero

The Tempest - Ariel

The Tempest - Caliban

Fall 2019—Designs for Rachmaninoff’s Aleko. To circumvent the stereotypes embedded in the text, I chose to cast the troupe as beings from Celtic mythology (also known for their whimsy, freedom, and flexible romantic arrangements). Zemfira is a swan wife from Welsh folklore, the band and lover are other Sidhe representing different endemic species of the British Isles, and Zemfira’s father is the hill itself, and a giant puppet.

She Kills Monsters - Steve The Wizard

Romeo and Juliet - Juliet

An unrealized production of Romeo and Juliet, set in Belfast during 1974.

Romeo and Juliet - Romeo

Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio

Romeo and Juliet - Tybalt

Macbeth - The Witches

Unrealized production of Macbeth that used the violence and fear/admiration of technology during World War One as a backdrop to this story of revenge.

Macbeth - Lady Macbeth

Macbeth - The Messenger

Macbeth - The Nurse

Aesop's - The Lion

A hypothetical project that takes the themes of The Lion and the Mouse and maps them onto a 1980s British office building - exploring class, race, and gender, and asking its audience who the true predator is.

Aesop's - The Mouse

Aesop's - The Hunter, Disguised

Aesop's - The Hunter, Unmasked

Construction/Draping

17th-century inspired womenswear draping and construction for The Liar, Duke University Theater Studies

Directed by R. Darren Gobert
Costume Design by Anna-Alisa Belous
Scenic Design by Torry Bend
Lighting Design by Bill Webb
Menswear construction by Will Sturman
Cast in order of appearance here: Ondine Peck-Voll, Bri’Yon Watts, Sydney Maynor, Blaze Gambla, Madeleine Dean

Viola - Twelfth Night

19th century gown, draped and built for Duke Theater Studies production of Twelfth Night

Directed by Jonathan Cullen
Costume Design by Jessica Gaffney
Scenic Design by Sonya Drum
Lighting Design by Roz Fulton Dahlie
Viola: Emi Hegarty

1860s dinner dress half-drape

Spring 2021

1890s Red Striped Corset

Drafted from pattern in Jill Salen’s Corsets: Historic Patterns And Techniques, 2019. Cotton, coutil, spiral steel.

1890s Corset Front

1890s Corset - 3/4

189s Corset Back

1895 Walking Dress - Half Drape

Complete half-drape, spring 2021

Patterned off the 1895 half-drape - an Edwardian werewolf, made of wool and recycled jeans.

1805 Open Robe

Spring 2022

Pad-stitching

An attempt at self-taught tailoring, 2018

Renaissance Fairy costume, leather bodice, cotton jersey open-sided trousers, applique, handsewn eyelets.

Costume Crafts/Props

Butterfly Gorget

Built for Technology In Costume Crafts, this piece incorporates laser cut design, LED programming and installation, heat-shaping foam, and foam surface treatments. The goal was to make a piece packed full of technology that nevertheless gave the impression of an airy, organic garment.

Butterfly Gorget - Back

Back view of finished piece. The entire surface was treated with Plasti-Dip and coated with gold Rub-n-Buff. The cape is two layers of polyester chiffon, and the pauldrons are held in place with neodymium magnets. The circuit nestles in a carved recess along the spine.

Interior Butterfly Gorget

Programmed LEDs to alternate twinkling using an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

Butterfly Gorget Work In Progress

Draped in muslin, then pattern refined in Inkscape, and laser cut out of dense foam. Assembled and formed using heat gun and rubber cement.

The Moors (2022)

By Jen Silverman

Presented at the Urbana Independent Media Center, through Illinois Theatre

Director — Ethan Smith

Assistant Director — Sophia Urban

Dramaturg and Fight Choreographer — M. Landon

Assistant Dramaturg — Kashara Bennett

Costume Designer — Hannah Haverkamp

Props provided by — Charles Pascale and KCPA

Production Photos — Lyla Stern

Agatha — Chloé San-Horstman

Huldey — Elizabeth Ruiz-Goranson

Emilie — Jailene Torres

Marjory — Audrey Adji

Mastiff — David Sommer

Moor-hen — Mary Jane Oken

Reasons To Go To Space (2022)

The Armory Free Theatre
A devised clown show developed by Greer Nicole Durham.

Director/AB: Greer Nicole Durham

Scenic Designer: Blaine Fuson

Lighting Designer: Zachary Saunders

Costume Designer: Hannah Haverkamp

Varslaren (The Whistleblower) (2022)

A devised adaptation of Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. February 2022 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Directed by Genesee Spridco
Scenic Design by Kat Blakeslee
Costume Design by Hannah Haverkamp
Lighting Design by Adam Major

"Teeming with life, whirling figures busily go about their individual duties, vivid and resplendent in adapted Victorian costuming, complete with modern masks...Varslaren feels cuttingly relevant and cunningly designed." - Law Welle, Medium

"...captivating costumes that complement each character’s attitude and personality... Costume designer Hannah Haverkamp certainly lets her design prowess be known..." - JP Legarte, Smile Politely

Full credits available here: Varslaren Program PDF

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Great Scenes From American Kitchen Sink Theatre (2021)

Lisa Gaye Dixon, Artistic Director/Producer

Nisi Sturgis, Director

Leojae Payton, Director of Photography

Blaine Fuson, Scenic Designer

Hannah Haverkamp, Costume Designer

Gillian Frame, Lighting Designer

Dakota Erickson, Sound Designer

M Ospina-Lopez, Media Designer

Darrell Hoemann, Photographer

The Piano Lesson - August Wilson

Nathan Ramsey as Boy Willie, Antwaun Allen as Lymon, Haven Crawley as Doaker, and Latrel Crawford as Wining Boy.

Curse of the Starving Class - Sam Shepard

Destiny Jording as Emma, Rachael Fox as Ella, Destin Sorin as Wesley.

'Night, Mother - Marsha Norman

Charlee Amacher as Mama/Thelma, Alex George as Jessie.

References To Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot - Jose Rivera

Daniel Rivera as Benito, Amy Toruño as Gabriela

Deliver Me (2019)

Directed by Yasmin Aasif
Produced by Eva Herndon
Premiered 2020 at Tallgrass Film Festival: Historical Shorts Program.

A short snapshot into the lives of two young people in 1968 California, and their short, very urgent road trip to Tijuana.

Deliver Me - Pitch Art, Cal

The initial moodboard designs for the short film Deliver Me, which premiered in 2020 at Tallgrass Film Festival. These were commissioned along with a storyboard for a grant, and then I was hired on to do the actual production, with small modifications.

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Pride and Prejudice and Gays (2019)

Directed by DiDi Rizzo
Produced by Felicia Ferrara
Premiered 2020 at Seattle Queer Film Festival, as part of their Queering The Narrative shorts program.

It’s your favorite classic romance - with a rainbow twist.

Pride and Prejudice and Gays - Lady Catherine

Costume designs and initial illustration for Pride and Prejudice and Gays, directed by DiDi Rizzo, which premiered at the Seattle Queer Film Festival as part of their shorts program.