Prior to joining the University of Idaho, Ginger Sorensen taught costume construction at the University of Wyoming for two years, was the costume director at Louisiana State University for six years and spent several years as a freelance costume draper in New York City and around the country. The companies she has draped for include The Guthrie Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, John Kristiansen New York and a variety of Shakespeare festivals in seven different states.

Sorensen received her Bachelor of Arts from Boise State University and her Master of Fine Arts from North Carolina School of the Arts.

• Costume technology
• Costume design and construction

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Sand Harbor Nevada State Park

Draper

• "Love's Labour's Lost," 2017
• "The Hound of the Baskervilles," 2017

The Muny, Saint Louis, MO

Draper

• "The Little Mermaid," 2017

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise, ID

• Draper
  • "My Fair Lady," 2016
  • "The Secret Garden," 2015
  • "King Lear," 2015
  • “Merry Wives of Windsor,” 2014
  • “Titus Andronicus,” 1999
  • “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” ”Romeo and Juliet, ” “Cymbeline, ”1998

Snowy Range Summer Theatre and Dance Festival, Laramie WY

• Costume Director/Designer/Coordinator
  • “Swingtime Canteen,” 2014
  • “Time Stands Still,” “Stones in His Pockets,” “Waiting For a Chinook,” Dance Concert, 2013

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

• Costume Director/ Draper
  • “Middletown,” “Movement Landscapes,” “Working,” 2014
  • “Boeing Boeing,” “Variegations,” “Twelfth Night,” “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,” “An Evening with Ayn Rand,” “Carmina Burana,” 2013
  • “Blithe Spirit,” “From the Ashes: A Cinderella Ballet,” 2012

Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA

• Draper
  • “King Lear,” “The Tempest,” 2012
  • “Richard the Third,” “A Winter’s Tale,” “The Taster,” 2010
  • “The Ladies’ Man,” “All’s Well That Ends Well,” “Othello,” 2008

Great Lakes Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio

• Draper
  • “Romeo and Juliet,” “Mousetrap,” 2012

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN

• Draper
  • “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Charlie’s Aunt,” “A Christmas Carol,” 2011

Great River Shakespeare Festival, Winona, MN

• Draper
  • “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Henry IV,” 2011

John Kristiansen New York, Inc

• Draper
  • Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus Red Train 2010
  • “Disney Live,” 2010
  • “Little Shop of Horrors” (Ford Theatre, Washington D.C.), 2010
  • Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus Blue Train 2009

Professional Affiliations

• Member of United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT), 1999-Present
• Member of Costume Society of America, 2008-2009

Participation in Conferences and Symposia

• Workshop Presenter, “Fun with Bra Foam,” Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Section 7, Boise, Idaho, February 2014
• Presenter, “Keeping Costumes Alive in a Time of Death: The Living,” Costume Society of America Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2008
• Program Panelist, “The Bayou to Beijing: The Heidi Chronicles in China,” ATHE Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 2007
• Program Panelist, “Cuban Carnival Costume Symposium,” USITT Conference, Toronto, March 2005
• Attended and translated for OISTAT Costume Symposium “Carnival in Cuba,” Santiago de Cuba and Havana, Cuba, July 2004