Juli Valle ’26 (right) works with Robin Foster Cole, director of the costume shop, on correcting a pattern after a fitting, in preparation for cutting out a dress in the fashion fabric. Valle helped design and sew the costumes for the spring production of The Maids as her Theatre Department senior thesis.
Ella Charnizon ’26 works on a corset, paying particular attention to matching chevron patterns at the center front and back.
(Clockwise from left) Students Juli Valle ’26, Ella Charnizon ’26, and Sophie Liebman ’27 work with Robin Foster Cole, director of the costume shop, to create some of the clothing to be worn on stage in the College’s spring productions of The Maids and Our Town.
Robin Foster Cole, director of the costume shop, works with Sophie Liebman ’27 on gathering and finishing the waistband of a lace skirt.
Sophie Liebman ’27 works on a costume for one of the Middlebury College Theatre Department’s spring 2026 productions.
The costume shop provides myriad opportunities for students interested in the many aspects of costume design and construction—both through working in the shop and taking courses taught by the resident designer and visiting assistant professor of theatre, Summer Lee Jack.
