pDennis Milam Bensie sees himself as way more Thelma Ritter in Mankiewicz's All About Eveem than Tom Courtney in Ronald Harwood's harrowing play and movie, The Dresserem.ppWatching emThe Tony Awardsem as a teenager in the early 1980s, Bensie knew he wanted to be in theater. He was his own dresser for plays in high school when he learned a career as an actor wasn't for him. Costumes became his calling, at first in summer stock and gradually with union houses, wherever he could find work.ppA theatrical dresser is expected to be a nurse, psychologist, tailor, personal shopper, magician, bodyguard, maid, scout, and confidant.ppemThirty Years a Dresserem is Bensie's third memoir, after emShorn Toys to Menem and emOne Gay Americanem. His stories involve behind-the-scenes dish and drama during a wide range of productions from emMetamorphosesem, emThe Light in the Piazzaem, emRomy and Michele's High School Reunion--The Musicalem to emThe Sound of Musicem three times. The author's backstage sto