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For over thirty years , Irene Corey , designer , author , and master teacher , has exerted a significant influence in the field of visual arts within the world of theatre . As a designer , she first made an impact with a spectacular mosaic makeup and costume design for The Book Of Job a world -renowned production originally commissioned by the Religious Drama Society of Great Britain . The international success of this production prompted the founding of The Everyman Players , a repertory company which toured the world for twenty years . She has authored two textbooks on makeup and costume design ; and , in addition , her designs are featured in nineteen other textbooks . Of equal value to the advancement of the theatrical profession , Irene Corey is a master teacher . Her standards of discipline and sound research methodology have been widely disseminated by her students and her contemporaries .
This dissertation is designed as an authorized , non -critical , chronological history of the life and works of Irene Corey , based on extensive interviews with the artist , her family , her former students and her colleagues . This study also includes color reproductions of her original artwork , working drawings , and photographs of production details . Due to the ephemeral nature of theatrical design , there is no extant body of critical scholarship of her work . It is hoped that this biography will serve as a record of a worthy and remarkable woman in the arts and as a basis for later critical study . |