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day players and cast go to set with everything, they need to support the designer's vision, I go over medical notes to prep the next day's work, organize character lines that are done for the season, and log every single new costume piece that enters our trailer. Then Jessi and I "meet in the middle" to set and wrap rooms together. With upward of 39 actors on any given day, it can be quite a time management tetris, but Jessi and I have found a great rhythm. FB: My responsibilities are continuity, tracking the costumes. As the day gets longer, trying to figure out how to show passing of time, exhaustion, and stress. If something happens on camera, oftentimes we will have to track it and make sure we have multiples since the main cast is only in one costume. With patients and trauma scenes we will have to add blood, and it all depends on what the issue is as far as how much and how it should look. Splatter, soaking, etc. Sometimes we have to add sweat or vomit or who knows. It's always different and actually quite fun. CS: Most of our BG have closets with multiples since they wear the same change for up to seven months in a row. This translates to a tremendous amount of labeling and organizing to keep track of each piece of each costume, for hundreds and hundreds of background. It was therefore, key that I invest heavily in the organizational infrastructure of the trailer. That really impacts every task I'm responsible for throughout the season, including name labels in every garment, thoughtfully marked dividers and signs throughout the truck, making sure every costume change has a fully detailed tag-back written up, and doing a massive amount of laundry. I was able to really distill a lot of the lessons learned during the first season and apply them into more refined systems for Season 2. CF & TK: We dress the established background and fit any rush calls in the morning. Together, we manage the continuity on set (including upkeep of blood, dirt, sweat, vomit, etc.) And wrap out the background and organize laundry to send out or do in house. What does a typical episode look like for you? A typical day? A typical week? JE: Preparation for a new episode on the trailer begins usually about a week into filming the previous episode. Upon receiving the next episode's script Lauryn and I will go through and make notes of any details that will impact our set team whether it is the return of a character from a previous episode, on camera nudity, or a significant 28 FALL 2026 From top: Alexandra Metz and Dash Land; Thiago Ker; Lauryn Terceira and Courtney Franzese "The creativity of it all and free range to story tell has been what literally made me love joining costumes. That love and excitement of creating gets me excited everyday" —DASH LAND