Rachel E. Pollock is a costume crafts artisan and an instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has created online costume production content (blogging and video) as La Bricoleuse since 2006. She was resident lead crafts artisan and dyer for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, then worked in Los Angeles on film, television, and opera before relocating to NC. She has also worked as a dyer and first hand at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on shows such as Hamilton, Lion King, and Frozen She lives in Durham, NC, with her partner, Chris.