How I Became: A Wardrobe Technician

This week, we speak to Glyndebourne Wardrobe Technician Emma Donna about her journey from performance design student to working in wardrobe for Olivier award-winning productions.

More often than not, the road to your dream job is not a straight line. This week, BRICKS meets wardrobe technician Emma Donna (Opens in a new window) to hear about her unconventional career journey into wardrobe for film and theatre. Having graduated months before the pandemic shut theatre doors indefinitely, Emma was convinced she’d get to have the career in costume design she’d always dreamed of. But through utilising her multi-hyphenate creative skills on remote jobs, and working part-time in a cinema, Emma used her new connections to land a role as a dresser, a wardrobe assistant and now wardrobe technician at the prestigious Glyndebourne theatre in West Sussex.

Below, Emma shares her experiences entering and navigating the theatre and film industry mid-pandemic, developing her skills in costume and wardrobe, and falling in love with a job she never knew existed.