The disaster had just subsided when Denise Andres learned she’d been nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the HBO drama “The Gilded Age.” The miniseries was filming its third season on location in Troy, New York, in late July, when a leak in the ceiling threatened to soak the show’s costume shop. With a staff of more than 30, the costume shop is the size of a small mall with millinery and tailor shops and fitting rooms – and a stock of hundreds of costumes.
So it was all hands on deck. Andres, the show’s costume supervisor and a 1975 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, was in Brooklyn, New York, when she got the call. She jumped in her Subaru and sped north to deal with the looming disaster.
Nothing was damaged but it took a day and half to move the costume shop to a new location. “It was a lot of work. We were all exhausted, sweaty, hot, everything,” Andres recalled.
“And our assistant production manager said, ‘Oh, you guys got nominated for an Emmy.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And I started crying.” Andres, who has homes in Wakefield and Brooklyn, was nominated for "Outstanding Period Costumes for a Series" for the Season 2 episode “You Don’t Even Like Opera.
” She shares the nomination with designers Kasia Walicka Maimone and Patrick Wiley, assistant designer Isabelle Simone, and costume supervisor Rebecca Levin. It’s one of seven nominations for “The Gilded Age.” A veteran of nearly 50 years in theater, film and television, And.