McDaniel College 

Dressing the Part
Carolyn Ricks ’05
Theatre Major, Award-Winning Costume Designer
Carolyn Ricks
  • Personally I like to think that the costume designer is one of the most important people [in theatre]—without us they’d all be naked.
  • I’ve really worked hard. I’m one of the few people who’s been in Alpha Psi Omega, the theatre honors fraternity, for four years.
  • The nice thing about that is that if I were just in a sorority I would get sisters, but here I get sisters and brothers.
  • When you’re working on something, especially when you’re frustrated and then the actors are about to go on stage and they’re like ... ‘this looks awesome, thank you so much,’ that means so much.
  • Plus, nobody’s naked.
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