Lydia Shiferaw

Lydia Shiferaw is an actress and costumer who appeared as a command officer in several episodes of . She received no credit for her appearances and was identified by the call sheets of the episodes on which she was sometimes listed as Lydia Shifferaw or Lydia Shiferan. Shiferaw worked as stand-in for Galyn Görg on the third season episode . Shiferaw was present during filming of the first season episode which included actress Genevieve Bujold. This scene was later included into the special feature "The First Captain: Bujold" on the VOY Season 1 DVD.
Shiferaw was born in Ethiopia and grew up in the United States. She studied at the New York Institute of Technology and has been working as fashion and costume designer since the late 1980s.
One of her first experiences in the entertainment industry was working on in 1986, with with Percy Rodriguez, Cindy Sorensen, and June Jordan. Further credits as wardrobe assistant and costumer include (1986, with Robert Rusler and Julius LeFlore), (1988, with Kenneth Tobey, Jim Wilkey, Gene LeBell, and Clint Howard), (1988-1989, with costumer Philip Maldonado), (1989, starring Lisa Wilcox), (1990), (1994, with David Ogden Stiers, Jefrey Alan Chandler, and Richard Riehle), (1995, with Kim Cattrall, Ron Canada, Natalija Nogulich, Joanna Miles, Michelle C. Bonilla, and Joy Hooper), and (1999-2001).
Shiferaw worked as costume designer on Robert Bralver's (1989) and on the drama Gir-gir (1996) on which she also worked as makeup artist. As an actress, she worked on the 2007 short film Breathe.
Further credits as costumer include (2003-2004) and (2004, with James Cromwell, Joanna Cassidy, J.G. Hertzler, Matt Malloy, and Scott Burkholder), (2012, with Matt Winston), the drama Mr. Church (2016), and (2016, starring Bruce McGill). 
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