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ShowbizU: Advice to Aspiring Costume Designers- Linda Cho

Name: ShowbizU: Advice to Aspiring Costume Designers- Linda Cho
Uploaded: 2014-08-12T18:24:36+00:00
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Channel: Tim Kashani
Description: In this segment, Linda Cho offers candid career advice to aspiring costume designers. She emphasizes the necessity of loving the work and recognizing…

12 Aug 2014 · 1 min

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In this segment, Linda Cho offers candid career advice to aspiring costume designers. She emphasizes the necessity of loving the work and recognizing when the stress outweighs enjoyment, suggesting that individuals should consider alternative paths that still utilize their skill set if they cannot find fulfillment. Cho stresses the importance of building and maintaining professional relationships with peers, mentors, actors, designers, and directors, noting that these connections become friends, collaborators, and sources of referrals and job opportunities. She outlines a growth model where designers start with small productions, progress to medium-sized shows, and continue advancing together with their network. Finally, she advocates for a balanced life outside of theatre, encouraging dating, family, and other activities to sustain personal well‑being.

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It's a tough business. I think you have to love it. If you find it very stressful and that you're not enjoying the work, I think you should look for— there's so many other sort of directions that you can take with that skill set that you'll probably find something that's going to be far more rewarding. So don't kill yourself. Enjoy. If you can't enjoy, do something else because I really feel like you should enjoy your life in general. I think that you should connect with the people that you're rising with, whether it be other actors, designers, directors. Learn from the people who've, who've been out in the business for a while, but it's those people that you started with who will be your friends and colleagues, who will refer you for jobs and who will hire you, and you'll take those little small shows together and then you'll take the medium-sized shows and then you'll just keep growing together. So I think that's another great piece of advice. I think you should have balance. I think you should do things other than theatre. I think you should date and have fun and have a family if you can. You know, just, yeah, do other things to have some balance.