Kathleen Laundy     Costume Designer
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    • DRAM 1342 Costuming
    • DRAM 1341 Makeup
    • DRAM 2331 Intro to Design
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    • Tristan and Isolde
    • Puffs
    • Clue the Musical
    • The Old Maid and the Thief
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
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  Kathleen Laundy     Costume Designer

About Me

Yes that's me! And Yes, I am that excited!​
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McLennan alum Michele Cervantes drew this of me MANY YEARS AGO.  Michele's work is for sale.  There is a link to her FB page The Art of Michele Cervantes on the Everything Else Links page.
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Jessica Phelps is wearing the UT Longhorn cheer uniform she made in class.
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Me and Matt Smith as Buckingham.  This costume won him the TETA Founder's Scholarship and got him into Santa Fe School of Art and Design.  He is now an intern at Center Stage Theatre in Baltimore.

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Me and the McLennan Theatre majors 2015-16.

A Short Bio

Kathleen Laundy (costume/makeup design) joined the McLennan Theatre Department in 1997. She holds a BA in Theatre from Texas A&M University and MFA in Costume Design from California State University-Long Beach. Her professional credits include such diverse California venues as Universal Studios (Friends, Waterworld Stunt Show) McCoy/Rigby Entertainment (Cathy Rigby's The Wizard of Oz), West Coast Ensemble (Blithe Spirit), Renaissance Entertainment (Batman Stunt Show and Seaworld's Sea Lion and Otter shows), The Colony (King of Hearts), East/West Players (Sweeney Todd), and Long Beach Playhouse (Angry Housewives). Before leaving Texas for California, she was resident costume designer for El Paso's first Magnet School for Theatre. She is a member of United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Her designs continue to win certificates of excellence in Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival competitions, including An Ideal Husband (1998), Royal Hunt of the Sun (2001), Quake (2002), and A Lion in Winter (2010). In addition to designing costumes for McLennan theatre and opera productions, Professor Laundy teaches the online section of Intro to Theatre, Costuming, Makeup, and Introduction to Design. In 2005, she was included in the 8th edition of Who's Who Among American Teachers. She is married to a drummer/teacher, and together they have 3 children.

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching Philosophy

My favorite web comic, written by Dr. Dante Shepard, says it the best!
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Or here's the formal version, should you prefer that.
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