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    • DRAM 1341 Makeup
    • DRAM 2331 Intro to Design
    • DRAM 1310 Theatre Appreciation (Online)
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    • She Kills Monsters
    • Passage
    • Little Shop of Horrors
    • Tinker of Tivoli
    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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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 (she/her) joined the McLennan Theatre department in 1997. She holds a B.A. in theatre from Texas A&M University (1993) and M.F.A. in costume design from California State University-Long Beach (1997). Her professional credits include such diverse California venues as Universal Studios, McCoy/Rigby Entertainment, West Coast Ensemble, Renaissance Entertainment, The Colony, East/West Players, and Long Beach Playhouse. Before leaving Texas for California, Professor Laundy was the resident costume designer for El Paso's first Magnet School for Theatre. Professor Laundy teaches Costume Technology, Makeup, Introduction to Design, and Theatre Appreciation. She designs costumes for McLennan theatre and opera productions She is a member of several professional groups including the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology--Southwest, American Theatre in Higher Education, and Waco Theatre Alliance. Professor Laundy's 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 The Lion in Winter (2010). She is also an award-winning professional cosplayer, and serves on the Costume Committee of Epically Geeky Expo, our local comic convention. She is also the founder of MCC Alumni Cosplayers group (MAC) . In addition to her collegiate service, she recently earned her certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Cornell University and is the faculty advisor for the Genders and Sexualities Alliance organization on campus. Her beloved community is Neurodivergent/LGBTQIA. At home she is married to a professional musician and together they have three 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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