Curriculum Vitae
Email: ariel.pellman@gmail.com phone: 917-488-7190
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts - costume shop staff & student wardrobe crew supervisor - spring 2020
Abortion Access Front Summer internships supervisor - summers 2018 & 2019
New York University Graduate Design - alumni mentorship program - spring 2017
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Costume Design - York CUNY College - Fall 2015 - Fall 2016 (3 semesters)
COSTUME DESIGN
WARDROBE
DESIGNER
Playwrights for a Cause 2017 Planet Connections Atlantic Theater
Five Sessions Edward Torres St Joan’s
Off Track Tim Errickson NY Fringe + Fringe encores
Tartuffe Thomas Marion York CUNY College
La Cancion Edward Torres Repertorio Espanol
Playwrights for a Cause 2016 Planet Connections Atlantic Theater
Romeo and Juliet Thomas Marion York CUNY College
Intimate Apparel Janice Dickinson York CUNY College
Nine the Musical Laurie Castaldo College of New Rochelle
The Eggs by Adam Rapp Mark Wing Davey NYU Tisch Grad Acting
The Miracle Play Clare Hammoor The Dirty Blondes
Slaughterhouse 5 Jenny Beth Snyder Players Theater -NY Fringe+Fringe Encores Off Broadway
Odette John Grimmett New York Avant Garde Arts Festival
Cabaret Jeff DeVincent The Bay Street Theatre Savannah
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Bridget Tunstall The Bay Street Theatre Savannah
Urinetown Jeff DeVincent Little Theatre of Savannah
The Rocky Horror Show Jeff DeVincent, Cardinal Rep Savannah
ASSISTANT DESIGNER
The Piano Lesson Costume Design by Paul Tazewell Directed by Jade King Carroll McCarter Theatre
The Liquid Plain Costume Design by Paul Tazewell Directed by Kwame Kwei Armah Signature Theatre
VARIOUS ASSISTANCE
Paul Tazewell (Dirty Dancing, Shakespeare on Ice)
- Research, photoshop, fabric swatching
Constance Hoffmann (Bel Canto)
- costume illustration, technical drawings, research
Lux Haac (Rock and Roll Refugee)
-assistant design- costume collection, shopping, fabric swatching
Beth Goldenberg (various regional)
-assistant designer
Court Watson (La Boheme)
- assistant designer
TELEVISION
Bull season one CBS Network 2016-17
Costume PA
BROADWAY AND OFF BROADWAY
Beautiful Stephen Sondheim Theatre 2014-16
dresser, stitcher
Red Eye of Love DiCapo Opera Theatre 2014
Wardrobe Supervisor
Addams Family Lunt Fontanne 2011
Women’s ensemble swing dresser, Principal swing dresser, stitcher
La Cage Aux Folles Longacre Theatre 2010-11
Shopper for cast changeover/new builds, stitcher, men’s ensemble swing dresser
Promises, Promises Broadway Theatre 2010
Women’s ensemble swing dresser, men’s ensemble swing dresser, stitcher
Scottsboro Boys Vineyard Theatre 2010
stitcher, shopper, men’s ensemble and principal swing dresser
VIDEOS- PRODUCTION DESIGN, ART DIRECTION, COSTUMES, PROPS, SET DESIGN
Lady Parts Justice League’s Justice League
Mancestry.com
Donate, Actually
NYE donation Top 5 Countdown
Vans with Strangers
Title X Liquidators
March Sadness parts 1 and 2
Shame of Thrones
LIVE EVENTS
Golden Probes Awards - The Town Hall - hosted by Margaret Cho
- production coordinator & art direction
Life is a Living Nightmare: a Telethon to Fix It - Lizz Winstead UCB Hollywood Boulevard
-Set design, prop design, art directon
Human Fake Clinic
-clinic jumpsuit designer, panel design and scenic painting- action designer
OTHER WORK AND EDUCATION
Parsons Meares Costume Shop; Shopper August 2010-January 2011
Swatched and shopped fabrics for Aiko Ishioka’s designs on Spiderman; Turn off the Dark, also other major Broadway productions including The Lion King, Shrek the Musical, Phantom of the Opera, and Mary Poppins.
The Metropolitan Opera costume shop; intern Summer 2007
Worked under the assistant head of costumes at the Met Borhan Ahmed as an intern, primarily swatching, shopping and producing papework for Mara Blumenfeld’s design for Mary Zimmerman’s production of Lucia Di Lammermoor.
Education
Parsons the New School, New York, NY — courses in graphic design and related fields:
Graphic Design, Typography, History of Graphic design, Adobe Illustrator for Graphic Design
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY -- Master of Fine Arts for Costume Design; 2-year recipient of the Leigh Rand Scholarship; 2013-14
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA — Bachelor of Fine Arts; Production Design with costume concentration, Art History minor, Fashion minor; 5 years recipient of artistic and academic excellence scholarship, Magna Cum Laude 2009