About
Tamara Langman is the owner of Tam Tam The Tailor, a one-person atelier specializing in bespoke costumes, formal wear, and custom embroidery in the Atlanta-area. Their current body of work has primarily been for television and film clients, but they also take a number of private clients each year.
With the Summer 2023 strikes of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, Tam Tam is once again out of work and turning to activism. Embroidered patches are for sale now, which benefit Entertainment Community Fund.
My Backstory…
2007 - Graduated with BFA in Theatre Arts from University of Oregon, and began stitching at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Travelled the country working for various regional theatres and summer stock festivals.
2011 - Moved to the Atlanta-area to pursue costume making for TV and Film, while working fulltime sewing at a drapery studio in Roswell, GA, then worked for 2 years supervising a cut & sew in Chamblee, GA that manufactured allergy-proof bedding.
2014 - Was offered an opportunity to return to Opera Theatre St. Louis as a First Hand, and returned to theatre for a few years, as the Film opportunities at the time, had not been plentiful enough to make a career out of. Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 9 month schedule plus OTSL’s summer festival season dovetailed perfectly to create full-time employment for several years.
2018 - Returned to Atlanta and joined IATSE Local 479. Now, with the backing of the Union, began working full-time on TV and film projects in the Atlanta-area, after 10 years in professional theatre as a tailor and draper. Began teaching private sewing lessons, as well as developing courses for the Union’s continuing Education program.
2020 - During Covid-19 lockdown, which halted all film and theatre production, Tamara put her manufacturing experience and an industrial rotary cutter to use fulltime, personally cutting thousands of masks to be distributed to a volunteer network of hundreds of local sewists. With the organization Sewing Masks for Area Hospitals, over 50,000 masks were donated to Children’s Hospital of Atlanta and other local hospitals. Working with the tailor shops at Atlanta Opera and the Alliance Theatre, hundreds of isolation gowns were cut and sewn for Grady Memorial Hospital.