TWHS senior Ivanna Stone is a Costume Designer and Seamstress for TWHS’s theater department. Currently, she is a Costume Co-Head for the theater’s upcoming musical, Big Fish, as well as participating in various events for Texas Thespian State Festival–TTSF for short. On top of all this, she also has previous experience doing costumes for the theater, having been a member of Little Women’s costume run crew as well as Yasmina Reza’s Art costume assistant.

     Ivanna started costumes her sophomore year of high school, discovering it through her friends Jaden Blackwell-Frank and Marissa Miller, both of whom also part of the costume department. They were in their Theater 1 class when “they were talking about Midsummer and Les Mis, and I was like, I want to get into all of those costumes,” inspiring her to join, and later a love of costuming. 

     This love is caused through everything that goes into costuming, “I love fashion, and I think costuming is a gateway to fashion. It’s really fun with all the people and the different styles and characters they have to create.” Overall, making costumes is something that Ivanna truly loves.

     Ivanna tells us that “Costumes are so much fun, and other tech positions are too, regardless of the role that you’re playing, it’s just the community that makes it so great and fun.”