Student Blogger: Maddy Goldberg

This March the University of Colorado Boulder staged a production of Stephen Sondheim's Company in the Charlotte York Irey Theatre in the University Theatre building. For this production I was asked to be Wardrobe Head. I was put in charge of a little crew of three other kickass wardrobe technicians and we were in charge of all things costumes.

Auditioning can be one of the most brutal parts of an actor’s career. You can go in so prepared and confident and still not book the show. I’d like to share some of my audition wins and losses from this spring audition season at my university, what I’ve learned, and how I’ve celebrated.

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of academic integrity? For me it tends to be not cheating on exams or plagiarizing essays. But academic integrity covers so much more than just that. A big component of academic integrity is being responsible and reliable when it comes to getting your work done. 

In the month of December I was part of a staged reading of a student written musical, Mary Shelley, through the Sandbox Student Series at the University of Colorado Boulder. The musical was written by a CU student and follows the life of Mary Shelley, mother of science fiction and author of Frankenstein.

Burnout hit me hard at the end of this semester. Having to go back to school for two weeks after Thanksgiving and before winter break felt impossible. I had just been at home doing nothing for a week and now I was expected to jump right back into final projects and studying for final exams, but I really wanted to end my semester strong.

This semester I was lucky enough to be Wardrobe Supervisor for the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance production of The Importance of Being Earnest which played November 11-20, 2022 in the Old Main Chapel, a cute little theatre space in the oldest building on campus.

As the end of the semester draws near, I am tired. It is so hard to jump back into school work for the two weeks in between Thanksgiving and Winter Break. As we are all trying to get back in the swing of things, here are some things I do to help stay focused for these last couple weeks of the semester.

I work in the costume shop for the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU Boulder, so I was lucky enough to work on many of the costumes for 'Shakespeare: An Autumn's Tale.' For the majority of the time we were working on the show I was given the project of creating these beautiful leg ruffles for the character Ariel from 'The Tempest.'

I only have one theatre class in my schedule this semester, but I'm also an employee in the costume shop in the theatre building. Though I'm not performing this semester I'm still working on lots of fun theatre related projects. Check it out!