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Dear Production Team,

For over twenty years "Topaz" Erin Lareau has been involved professionally in all aspects of costume design for various forms of entertainment media.

She won a 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design for Music or Variety Special.
Recent works include costume design on MICHAEL JACKSON'S "This Is It" Tour/Film, SCREAM AWARDS '07, '08 & '09, DIVAS LIVE, Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CONCERT TOUR & ICE TOUR. She has worked with renowned directors Kenny Ortega and Christopher Guest, and the directors of Little Miss Sunshine.

Topaz has styled more than four hundred commercials, with precise characterization, collaboration and versatility. For the last ten years Topaz has been designing for director Christopher Guest Commercially. Some of her work presently airing includes DirecTV, Healthy Choice, & Las Vegas Tourism "What Happens in Vegas..."

She spent three years at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and was the costume designer on "Blossom", "Grounded for Life", several pilots, series and reality shows... She designed "Chippendales" back in the day. She also designed the first Opera music video with Director Vincent Paterson, spectacular pre-Olympic shows for Nike and a special event in Las Vegas for Intel.

Thank you for your consideration.

"The best I've ever worked with”

Producer Shawn Wilt 818-694-4344

 

"Creative, artistic, resourceful”

Producer Arleen Sorkin 310-252-9933

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes,
Erin Lareau

323 851-9444

 


SELECTED CREDITS
Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”
VH1 Divas Live

Scream Awards
Yanni: Voices Live from Mundo Imperial
TV Land Awards/ Guys Choice
Benise Nights of Fire - Emmy
High School Musical Concert Tour    
Dinner & A Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Common Law
Prudy & Judy
Best Years
Blossom
2009
2009
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COMMERCIALS – (400+) - Selected Credit
Disney
Dockers (Superbowl)
Target
DirecTV
Brut
TLC Discovery Channel Promos
Playstation
NBC Fall Season Promos
McDonalds
AARP
PSA
Prudential
Juice
Resorts Casino
AT & T
Ocean Spray
Healthy Choice (17)
Sunny D
Honda (54)
Olympic Games
Toyota
Washington Mutual
ESPN
Beyond.com
Frosted Flakes
Sudafed
AirTouch Cellular
Good Guys
Lee Jeans
Duracell
Hefty
Ford
Citibank Card
Mazda
Microsoft
Quaker Oats
Taco Bell
Pringles
New England Telephone
Isuzu
Bank One
Progresso
Olympics
What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas
Intel
CBS Promo
SEGA
Home Fed
Lowenbrau
Wrigley’s
Six Flags
Gatorade
Principal Health Care
Fresh Step
AllTel
BRUT
RC Cola
Aliante
Cleveland Golf
Fox Sports

CELEBRITIES
Brad Pitt
John Mayer
Slash
Ben Affleck
Cindy Crawford
Tommy Lee
Liam Neeson
Ray Charles
Tony Shalhoub
Mickey Rooney

Vanessa Hudgens
Ryan Reynolds
Padma Lakshmi
Jay Leno
Christopher Guest
LeBron James
Wade Robson
Orlando Jones
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Nia Vardalos

Ashley Tisdale
Katy Perry
Bernadette Peters
Jamie Lee Curtis
Gwyneth Paltrow
Finola Hughes
Rachel Griffiths
Vanessa Williams
Terry Bradshaw
Holly Robinson Peete
 

REFERENCE LETTERS:


Erin,

I wanted to thank you for being such a team player and making us all look good. It is difficult to take a chance on someone you do not know, but this time it paid off amazingly well. Thank you for being so easy to take direction, adapt to changes and fulfill the vision.
I very much appreciate it. You definitely met and even exceeded my expectations.

Raj


Raj Kapoor
it Creative Services, Inc.
201 S. Lucerne Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90004

Office: 323.933.7339
Fax: 323.933.7338
Cell: 323.708.4777

 


Dear - :

I'm a friend and, by the way, a huge fan of Erin Lareau. I worked with her on the last season of "Grounded for Life," and I have to tell you she absolutely transformed our show. She's just a spectacular talent and couldn't be a nicer, more positive person. She has a way of making all of her actors look and feel like a million bucks. I could go on and on, but I'll just attach her resume and let you judge for yourself.

Best --

Megyn Price


Dear -

I am writing on behalf of Erin Lareau, who has worked for me twice now, as Costume Designer and Head of the Costume Department on a pilot shot this year for Fox Broadcasting, “ The Best Years,” and as Costume Designer and Head of the Costume Department on my series “Common Law” for ABC Television (also this year). On both productions I was Executive Producer, Creator and Writer.

Ms. Lareau did an outstanding job in both cases, illustrating character definition through a broad and innovative range of costume design and choices for our entire casts as well as guest casts. Between the two projects, ewe covered characters as diverse as Manhattan attorneys, Los Angeles Bartenders, young Hollywood nightclub denizens, New Jersey street thugs, and even strolling them park characters. She was tremendously helpful and collaborative in aiding the development of all these characters through costuming. Her attention to detail was remarkable—down to designing food-themed earrings for a coffee cart lady – and her intuitive understanding of what characters need to wear in various situations made my shows more successful visually. I vested complete responsibility for these decisions and she always gave us what we were looking for and far more.

Additionally she managed the Costume Department adeptly and always adhered to our sometimes draconian budgets. I look forward to working with Ms Lareau again; she is extremely talented and was an indispensable part of our productions.

Sincerely,

Robert La Zebnik

Executive Producer