northern today 6 spring 2014 Or, maybe you didn’t – and that’s just fine to Nicole and Joshua John Frachiseur. They would prefer the audience to focus on the production overall, not on their work. “If my job is done right, the show is what impacts the person, and they don’t even think about where it all came from,” Joshua said. “I kind of like it when people don’t think about it,” added Nicole. “Then it’s not distracting.” The Frachiseurs have been creating costumes (Nicole) and sets (Joshua) since their days as students at NSU. Their talents have turned into a suc- cessful career that took them around the U.S. and eventually brought them back to Northern. Natives of Idaho (Nicole is from Boise; Joshua is from nearby Mountain Home), the Frachiseurs met as teens. Together, they traveled to Aberdeen with a Reach Youth Ministries team, and together, they enrolled at Northern State University. Neither came to pursue theater; rather, both were seeking education degrees when they first arrived. But both were approached separately by the same professor, Michael Shiller, about getting involved in theater – though Shiller had no idea they even knew each other. When Nicole took a theater 100 class, she was required to see plays and write papers on them, but missed the opportunity to do so. So Shiller said she could work backstage for a production instead. “The next thing I knew, I was sewing and designing costumes as a student,” said Nicole, whose mom had taught her how to sew. Joshua, who had spent time working as a carpenter building homes to pay for college, was recruited by Shiller to build the set for a show. When Northern State University Theater brought “Les Misèrables” to life on the Johnson Fine Arts Center stage this spring, you may have marveled at the spectacular set and incredible costumes. Couple creates costumes, set for NSU Theater’s production of ‘Les Misèrables’
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