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Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

[Box number, File number] MS-42 Cheryl Pierce Craddock Theater Design Collection, Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Richmond to the library in 2015.

Biographical / Historical

Unfortunately, our available information about Cheryl Pierce Craddock is sparse. Internet searches show Cheryl Pierce as a graduate assistant from the University of Texas at Austin in their 1969 yearbook, along with a faculty group photograph from the Department of Drama at the same school in the 1970 yearbook. The 1979 University of Richmond yearbook has a photograph including Craddock in the Speech and Theatre Faculty, and she is listed in two articles in The Collegian for 1979 relating to shows she was affiliated with on campus. No other information is currently available.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials relating to the work and career of Cheryl Pierce Craddock during her time as a faculty member at the University of Richmond in 1979. The collection contains two series.

Series I, Costume Sketches, is arranged chronologically by performance and contains costume sketches in pencil with material swatches for various plays, ballets, and operas, including: Tartuffe, A Funny Thing Happened, Madame Butterfly, Pygmalion, Twelfth Night, Camelot, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Firebugs, The Robber Bridegroom, The Miser, Jean Brodie, Die Fledermaus, The Devil & Daniel Webster, Everything in the Garden, Scapino, La Traviata, Trudi and the Minstrel, and Camino Real. Researchers should know that plays, ballets, and operas listed contain sketches for multiple characters.

Series II, Set Design, includes two paintings for a set design of A Man for all Seasons and Waiting for Godot. This series also contains two scale drawings of a set design in gray and color rendering done for a class at the University of Texas, Department of Drama, and two posters with 14 photographs of people wearing the costumes designed by Cheryl Pierce Craddock for the play, Twelfth Night. Two larger sketches are done in color with swatches attached, for the characters Flora for La Traviata and Adele for Die Fledermaus. There are also two promotional exhibit posters with Cheryl Pierce Craddock dated 1983.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into two series: Series 1: Costume Sketches, is arranged chronologically. Series 2: Set Designs, is arranged by size. All materials are identified by the title of the performance.

Related Material

MS-21 Jack Welsh Collection MS-29 Jack Welsh Scrapbooks

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Costume design
• Swatches (Dry-goods)
• Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery