In his blog John will tell us all about his life in theatre, costume design, TV, the movies, the west end and much, much more!
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“The star of today’s newsletter is my totally gorgeous and uber talented god son Luciano Cusack. I am totally biased, as my love for Luc knows no bounds, but on the 17th April 2020 he launches his very first single and I couldn't be more proud.”
One sunny day I got a call from a well respected costume designer at LWT, Linda Mattock. She said “I am not offering you a job as I am not a woman who poaches other people’s staff but if you did happen to be free and would like it then I would love for you to be my Costume Supervisor on the next series of Poirot.” End of conversation.
“During hard times I often find myself humming My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music musical so I thought, this week, I would put together a list of my favourite sewing things”
“Well, frankly, being at Stitches is a bit like being a kid in a sweet shop! We saw all sorts of things from all sorts of designers old and new including brands such as Liberty, Lewis & Irene, FreeSpirit, Moda, to name just a few.”
“I get called into a meeting at work. it seems I am being transferred out of London to our other office. ‘What other office?’ I ask. ‘Oh, the one we are opening in New York!’”
“The Director of York Theatre Royal was a complete tour de force, very demanding and very precise but boy oh boy, that's where I learned my love of doing the best I possibly can at whatever job I am doing.”
“I thought sewing costumes would be an easy cop out and I intended to do just to enough not to get chucked off the course but oh, how I loved it! “
“So, there I was about to start work on a huge Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams, written by Bill Forsyth and with a mega million dollar budget.”