Sherry Wu is a MFA Costume Production candidate at UNC Chapel Hill. She will be graduating this May. In her time at UNC, she has worked at PlayMakers Repertory Company as a draper, first hand, and stitcher. Sherry has also worked as a costume technician at various theaters such as McCarter Theatre Center, Utah Festival Opera, and Hangar Theatre. She has also worked for Norwegian Cruse Line and RWS Group as a theatrical stitcher. She is excited for what is to come after graduation!

Rachel E. Pollock has worked as a costume craftsperson for theatre, opera, ballet, television, and film since 1994. After freelancing in Knoxville (TN), Chicago, and Boston, she served as resident lead crafts artisan and dyer for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, where she served for four seasons. She relocated to Los Angeles to work in film and television costuming, as well as a stint on the crafts team of the LA Opera, before coming to Chapel Hill. She has served as crafts artisan, dyer, and milliner for such designers as Catherine Zuber, Ann Hould-Ward, David Zinn, Constance Hoffman, and Julie Taymor. She also worked as a dyer and first hand at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on shows such as Lion King, Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes, and Hamilton. Mx. Pollock is the author of Sticks in Petticoats: Parasol Manufacture for the Modern Costumer. She is co-author with Triffin and Gregory Morris of the book, A History of the Costume Making Business: Creators of Character (Focal Press, 2021). At UNC, she conducts a series of graduate seminars on costume craftwork—millinery, dyeing/distressing, masks, armor, and related topics.