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The Curriculum
The Texture Ready Cohort delivers the full professional standard across three focused sessions — building knowledge, application, and relational competency in sequence. Every session includes working exercises drawn directly from real production scenarios.
This is not a lecture series. It's a working intensive. You leave each session with tools you can use immediately.
Delivered by Kira Troilo and Ari, Art & Soul Consulting.
Session One · 2 hours
What it means to be Texture Ready. The Hair Lead role and why it matters. Hair types 1–4, wash day realities, drying times, shrinkage, breakage risks. Protective styles — names, install times, costs, maintenance cadence. The production department framing.
Session Two · 2 hours
Performer intake and consent. Budget building before and after casting. Call sheet and timeline planning. Wig prep for all hair types. Dressing room standards. Vendor vetting and the vetted stylist network. The toolkit documents in practice.
Session Three · 2 hours
Collaborating with Black performers and performers of color. Design feasibility conversations. Humidity, heat, and production environment risks. Stop-the-line protocols and escalation. When things go wrong. The credential and what comes next.
The Credential
Every cohort graduate earns the Texture Ready Hair Lead credential — a verifiable professional credential recognized by AEA-affiliated productions. Put it in your bio. Put it in your invoice. Put it in your contract negotiations.
It signals to producers and directors that you can speak to the needs of all hair types — not as a specialty, but as a production standard you've been trained on.
Issued as a digital credential with unique verification ID. Future: listed in the Texture Ready Production Directory.
Texture Ready Hair Lead
Certified · Art & Soul Consulting · 2026
Who Attends
Primary
Costume Designers who also manage hair departments
Primary
Wardrobe Supervisors and Hair Department leads
Also Attends
Stage Managers building call sheet literacy for hair
Also Attends
Entertainment Attorneys building client advisory literacy
Sent By Institution
Theater staff sent by ADs or EDs ahead of a Diagnostic
Sent By Institution
Conservatory faculty embedding the standard in curriculum
Individual
Freelance production designers expanding their practice
Individual
Film/TV coordinators building production compliance literacy
Registration
Public Cohort
$797
Per seat · Quarterly schedule
Private Cohort
From $5,000
Up to 10 participants · Custom schedule
Casting professionals and talent representation: inquire about access partnerships.
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