Micah Davis-Wheeler
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Micah Davis-Wheeler is a Costumer based in Albuquerque, NM. He started as a seamster handling repairs and alterations, he also has a background in prop making and fine arts.
He grew up in Kansas City, spending his time either stumbling around in the creek behind his house or in the basement making model cars and airplanes. The crafting sensibility and love of nature combined as a preteen into enthusiasm for painting. The natural progression was to go to an Arts High School when his family moved to L.A. when he was a teen and subsequently the San Francisco Art Institute for college.
Once free of college he put his career objectives on hold to spend his 20's travelling internationally as much as possible, supplementing his income working as a musician in a true "Vagabondo" fashion. Various attempts at having a serious band did ensue which resulted in a feeble but interesting relationship with "Brown Interiour Music" and "PIAPTK Records."
Music eventually brought him to New Orleans where his love of art and craft re-emerged and found outlet in the general festival and specifically Mardi Gras industry. He worked primarily as a costumer, designing and fabricating for mainline Mardi Gras Krewe royalty as well as the general public. He was also called upon to design and fabricate props in conjunction with costume but also for use on Mardi Gras floats.
With the film industry present in New Orleans, his costume work soon found outlet there as well. He was employed with Southern Costume Company, a costume rental house, where he learned the key aspects of the industry. He eventually earned his IATSE union status working as a Costumer for film there in New Orleans.
After 11 years in New Orleans he decided on a change of scene- relocating to Albuquerque, NM where he could also be near family. Currently a member of IATSE 480 and enjoying getting to know the film community in New Mexico.