Akins, Rebecca R. Papers

Content description

Biographical: List of Childsplay show designs; Costume design credits by theatre;Three ring binder with: newspaper articles about Akins; newspaper reviews, articles and photographs about shows that Akins designed; production brochures and postcards; AriZoni award nomination, production photographs and slides. Arizona State University Theatre costume renderings: Dracula, ink with fabric swatches; Bullshot Crummond, Act 1, mounted, monochrome (B/W), with fabric swatches. University of Denver costume renderings: The Devils, mounted, watercolor (13 small, 1 large Adam); Romeo and Juliet, Nurse, color, with fabric swatches; The Mask of the Gold Dragon, Emperor Matsubara, mounted, watercolor, with fabric swatches; Volpone, Celia and Lady Would-Be, color, with fabric swatches (2); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lysander and Helena, mounted, color, with fabric swatches (2); Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, color, with fabric swatches (2); Cabaret, the Kit Kat Line, mounted, color, with fabric swatches. Guys and Dolls, Street dancer number 3 and Carmen Miranda, color, with fabric swatches (2). Childsplay costume renderings: Busytown, magic marker, color, with fabric swatches, and handwritten notes (23); Bunnicula, photocopy and originals, with handwritten notes, and some fabric swatches (10); King of Ireland’s Son, ink, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (5). Two Donuts, ink and crayon, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (3);Pied Piper, ink and crayon, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (3);Tomato Plant Girl, ink, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (4); Petite Rouge, color, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (9); The Big Friendly Giant: color, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (9); puppet construction (1); photograph of puppets and masks (1); Goodnight Moon, pencil and color, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (8); The Reluctant Dragon: mask renderings (4); costumes, color, with fabric swatches (5); The Borrowers: color, with fabric swatches (11); color, set rendering (1); A Wrinkle in Time, color, with handwritten notes, fabric swatches, and magazine pictures (8); Island of the Blue Dolphins, Rontu, color, handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (1); Velveteen Rabbit, pencil, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (4); Pero, color, the Woman and the Man, with handwritten notes, and fabric swatches (2); Pied Piper, Woman, color, with fabric swatches, handwritten notes, and production photo (1). David Barker, Mime costume rendering: I Am an Art Machine, the Machine, color, with handwritten notes.Phoenix Little Theatre costume renderings: My Fair Lady, Eliza, mounted, color, with fabric samples; Androcles and the Lion, Androcles and the Captain, mounted, color, with fabric swatches (2). Costume renderings Disco Alice in Wonderland, San Francisco, 1977, ink, with handwritten notes and fabric swatches (11). Exhibits: Scottsdale Public Library: “Mother Goose Time: The Art of the Rhyme”, Old Mother Goose, the Grand Old Duke of York, Dickey birds: mounted, color, with fabric swatches and handwritten notes (4). Phoenix Airport Museum, “Creating Illusion: The Art of Props”, brochure Costume: Coat made á la Beauty and the Beast, Childsplay and worn by designer to opening.

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Gift

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No