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Andrea Napier is a Women's Finished Key Costumer with 35-plus years of experience in costuming. She studied fashion design at the American College for the Applied Arts in London, where she discovered a love of costuming, eventually earning a bachelor's (Cal State Los Angeles) and then a master's (University of Arizona, Tucson) in Costume Design. She has worked on such productions as Marriage Story (2019), The Benchwarmers (2006), Spanglish (2004), Home Economics, Transparent, Rizzoli & Isles, Frasier, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Kathleen Qiu is a Women's Finished Costumer of Local 705. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from the Academy of Art University. She works primarily as a coordinator and a Background Costumer. In her non-costuming time, she gardens, builds things, and chases her chickens and cats around. She is a published author under the pseudonym Zella Faye Blanche. You can see some of her work at www.kathleenq.com. Shea Wolfe: Shea is a Key Set Costumer of Local 705. She is a descendant of Hawai'i and received a BA in fashion marketing. Shea has been an active Local 705 member since 2017. She has worked as a Set and Trailer Costumer on Air, The Mandalorian, and The Greatest Hits. Custom Made member Augusta Avallone is LA's "burl-expert": As Penny Starr, Jr., she is an award-winning burlesque dancer/vaudeville producer/burlesque Costume Designer with almost two decades in the art form under her shimmy belt. She has been featured at Burlesque Hall of Fame, Lucha Va Voom, Tease-O-Rama, the Windy City Burlesque Fest, the Toronto Burlesque Fest, the New York Burlesque Fest, and Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman. She was a regular contributor to Bachelor Pad magazine, as well as her own burlesque blog. As a Local 705 member, she has worked on such TV shows as Chuck, Jessie, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Trek: Picard. Christina Matthews is a Women's Finished Costumer of Local 705 and active member since 2016. She has a degree in fashion design and film studies, as well as a history working in the fashion industry in NYC before landing in LA. Christina currently works as a Set Costumer for film, television, and commercials with a love for sci-fi and fantasy projects. Erin Wenrick: Erin Wenrick is a Women's Finished Key Costumer of Local 705. She has a BA in theater production & design from Arizona State University and has been an active 705 member since 2017. She has worked primarily as a Set Costumer and Trailer Costumer. CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS