Sonja Harms( 
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Name: Sonja Harms
Contact Details
Address: 4 The Fieldings London SE23 3QA
Mobile: +44 7809460066
Email: sonjaverma@hotmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vermasonja
Professional Summery
Theatrical costume maker / designer with 25 years experience. Special interest in transvestites, opera, contemporary dance, performance art, circus, burlesque. Strong sense of colour and proportion. Keen on detail and finish of costumes.
Experience (a selection)
1995-current
- Designer/maker for transvestites (ie Grayson Perry CBE RA)
- The Royal Opera House Covent Garden – freelance costume making
1995-1999
- COSPROP, London
- Costume maker on various productions for stage, film and TV
1997
- Designer and maker of costumes for The Beggar’s Opera for Opera a la carte, Lincolns Inn Theatre
2001
- Designer and maker of costumes for Rigoletto for Opera a la carte,
- Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Billy Budd, Chicago Opera, Chicago, USA - costume maker
2002
- The Duckie Christmas Show (C’est Vauxhall),
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London - costume maker
2003
- Ursula Martinez, performance artist, London - costume maker
- Design concept for Human Resources, Camden People’s Theatre
Since 2004
- Costume maker for Julia Bardsley, performance artist, London
2004
- Assistant costume designer to Kandis Cook for The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, feature film by The Quay Brothers, London and Leipzig (Germany)
2005
- Costume making for Turandot, Madame Butterfly Royal Opera House
- Costume making for Theatre Cryptic Glasgow
Current
- Costume making for The Royal Opera House, Boston Early Music Festival and Grayson Perry CBE RA
2019
- Lunchtime lecture at The V&A
2020
- Costume making for Drones at Sadlers Wells
- Costume design for London Confidential a film for Zee5 India
Skills
- German, spoken and written (mother tongue)
- English, spoken and written (fluent)
- Dressing, fitting, taking measurements, pattern drafting, draping, costume drawing, designing, hand and machine sewing, embroidery, alteration of all types of costumes and clothing, dying, costume painting, breaking down costumes
- Piano playing
- Creative, attentive, polite, hard working, punctual