A History of the Theatre Costume Business: Creators of Character (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138484290)

Triffin I. Morris is head of the graduate costume production program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Milly S. Barranger Distinguished Professor of the Practice, and costume director of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She has worked at Radio City Music Hall, Tricorne, Eric Winterling, the Metropolitan Opera, and many others, making costumes for Broadway shows, opera, and dance over a 20-year career. She worked on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Margaritaville, The Rockettes, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Wicked, Cinderella, Matilda, and Shrek among many others. She has worked with such designers as William Ivey Long, Paul Tazewell, Ann Roth, Jane Greenwood, Gregg Barnes, and Emelio Sosa.

Gregory DL Morris has 35 years' experience as a business journalist and historian, having reported from all 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and 17 countries on five continents. He earned a BS in Journalism and Education, with a distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University. He is a second-generation native New Yorker, a member of the Overseas Press Club, and sits on the Editorial Board of the Museum of American Financial History, a Smithsonian Affiliate.

Rachel E. Pollock is costume crafts artisan and lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was resident lead crafts artisan and dyer for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, then worked in Los Angeles on film, television, and opera. She has served as a crafts artisan, dyer, and milliner for such designers as Catherine Zuber, Ann Hould-Ward, Ilona Somogyi, David Zinn, Constance Hoffman, and Julie Taymor. She has also worked as a dyer and first hand at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on shows such as Hamilton, Lion King, and Frozen.