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Kathryn Coombs specializes in historical recreations for film and television and is the founder and CEO of Heritage House Productions, a full-service company offering production services for history-focused projects. Their services include casting reenactor extras and look-alikes of historical figures, authenticity consulting, production design and props, location scouting, and wardrobe.
The company maintains an extensive casting database of film-ready reenactors and historical actors, both union and non-union, representing a broad range of historical periods.
Heritage House Productions also operates as an East Coast wardrobe house, boasting a large rental inventory of authentic historical reproduction clothing for film productions. Costume design accolades include Best Costume Design for the 18th-century narrative short "The Shot" (LA Reel Film Festival, 2010) and Best Costuming for "Dean Teaster's Ghost Town," set in the 1860s-1880s (Action on Film Festival, Pasadena 2008).
Coombs owns "Cleydael," an antebellum National Register farmhouse located on the John Wilkes Booth escape route bus tour. Furnished circa 1865, the house is occasionally used as a filming location and serves as the home for Heritage House’s props collection.
Her involvement in film production began during her 20+ year career in senior roles within PR, advertising, and lobbying/government relations in both the U.S. and England. She gained experience writing, producing, and directing mini-documentaries and video news releases for Fortune 500 companies, as well as creating television and radio advertisements for advocacy organizations.
A historical reenactor herself, Coombs focuses primarily on mid-18th to mid-20th-century periods as a recreations producer, production manager, and costume historian/designer. She is a member of the Costume Society of America and the USITT and maintains an extensive study collection of original American Civil War-era clothing. She frequently lectures on Civil War and 19th-century attire, as well as on period interiors, drawing from her study and collection of furnishings and material culture from that era. While living in England, she served as a consultant to the UK's Historic Houses Association.
