WINTERFEST at Kings Dominion
Winterfest is a park wide fantastical winter wonderland event, filled with shows, characters that spread merriment and cheer, and attractions run by santas very own elves. The costume department costumes 10 shows, around 30 merriment characters, and around 30 elves who staff our various attractions. Our shops are tasked with pulling, altering, building, and maintaining all of these costumes for the ~2 month long event. In preparation my duties are checking on the condition of the costumes, repairing them, building new costumes if needed, pulling costumes, creating look books and pieces lists for the dressers, creating laundry schedules, running the fittings, creating build lists and alteration time lines, delegating tasks, and supervising my team of 10+ dressers/stitchers. Like most of Kings Dominions entertainment a lot of our shows take place outside, therefore we have to keep performers warm and safe, developing safe measures in conjunction with our policies and saftey department is a priority and includes its own set of challenges. The finale for this amazing event is a winter wonderland parade, that includes most of our performers dancing their way through the park, many of these performers have entirely new costumes for the parade.
