About
Tamara Langman is the owner of Tam Tam The Tailor, a one-woman atelier, bringing costumes, formal wear, and custom embroidered designs to life in the Atlanta-area. Her current body of work has primarily been for TV and film, but she does take private commissions.
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 Atlanta-area to pursue a career in TV/film. Ended up spending a year sewing draperies in Roswell, GA, then 2 years supervising a cut & sew in Chamblee, GA that manufactured allergy-proof bedding.
2014 - Went back on the road again, chasing regional theatre gigs at Opera Theatre St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
2018 - Joined IATSE Local 479 and began working in TV and film projects in the Atlanta-area after 10 years in professional theatre as a tailor and draper.
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.