Elizabeth Cobbe's Favorite Theatre Sets for 2013, Austin Chronicle

Top 10 Theatrical Sets of 2013, to a Cat

The year's scenic designs proved especially appealing to the feline theatregoer

By Elizabeth Cobbe, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014

(uncredited photo via Austin Chronicle)

1) 'THE AMAZING ACRO-CATS' The performing cats wandered freely through the audience, making the whole theatre their set.


2) 'THE HEAD' (Connor Hopkins for Trouble Puppet Theater) The staging area provided levels upon levels, with intricate, handmade puppets for kitty to maul if she became bored.


3) '33 VARIATIONS' (Cliff Simon for Zach Theatre) How was there not a cat lurking in those cavernous archives?


4) 'NOISES OFF' (Patrick Crowley for Austin Playhouse) Disregard the slamming doors, if you can, and relish in the many hiding places for actors and felines alike.


5) 'FIXING KING JOHN' (Thomas Graves, Madge Darlington for Rude Mechanicals) Platforms rigged for actors and audience made ideal scratching posts.


6) 'INTIMATE APPAREL' (Jocelyn Pettway for UT Department of Theatre & Dance) Several detailed scenes existed together onstage, with beautiful fabrics waiting to be peed on and shredded.


7) 'RED' (David Utley for Penfold Theatre Company) A thoughtful, realistic treatment of Mark Rothko's art studio provided hiding spaces and paint cans in abundance.


8) 'FAT PIG' (Patrick and Holly Crowley for Theatre en Bloc) Shifting platforms are great entertainment, provided you don't catch your tail in the rails.


9) 'MAD BEAT HIP & GONE' (Michael Raiford for Zach Theatre) Dark lighting made the catwalks all the more appealing to a true cat.


10) 'DIAL "M" FOR MURDER' (Ian Loveall for UT Department of Theatre & Dance) Nothing like a fancy English parlor with fine furniture if you're looking to shed.

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, City Theatre, November 22 - December 22, 2013

by Dr. David Glen Robinson

Chinquapin Parish comes to the City. 

(citytheatreaustin.org)

To the City Theatre, that is, in the form of Robert Harling’s superbly written modern classic, Steel Magnolias. Theatre fans cannot see this masterpiece frequently enough; they must review it often to catch the fast-flying wicked barbs, double entendres, bon mots, and just plain corny jokes that fill its two hours and ten minutes. It feels like about one hour because laughter makes one lose all track of time. City Theatre’s holiday offering is highly recommended.

The story is about the small group of women who frequent Truvy’s Beauty Salon, get their hair done and share their lives. It is a high comedy with an underlying tragedy. The stories related by the customers in the styling chairs depict small town northern Louisiana culture, accurately in this reviewer’s experience. Further, it is a Christmas play, as part of the first act takes place at Christmastime, which at Truvy’s sees even keener and sharper humor related to the season, all without causing anyone to review their sense of the sacred and profane. Have I said this play is superbly written?

This strong material and the expectations of audiences for it set a high mark for any production, and the City Theatre production meets all the expectations for it. It's yet another glowing success for City Theatre.

The cast is well matched. Under the leadership of Samantha Brewer as Truvy, the cast shares the tidal shifts of intensity and emotion that sweep through their many stories. Director Berkovsky deserves credit for the exciting pace and its timing, that key element of comedy. The players did not miss a beat, as far as the audience could detect, quite a feat on any opening night, when butterflies and jitters are inevitable. If Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy is a category to be taken seriously, then the cast of Steel Magnolias certainly deserves a nomination for a B. Iden Payne award from the Austin theatre community.

The set was believable and authentic, and it conveyed a sense of warmth and familiarity from the first moment Berkovsky did the production design and Jennifer Cunningham did scenic painting.

A special credit goes to Val Frazee for hair design, super important in a play about beauticians and their customers. The wig work was especially spectacular.

The costume design by Rosalie Oliveri was most impressive, conveying both the idiosyncrasies and class-conscious wealth of northern Louisiana. Styling and prop design, usually credited on the program, were missing from the credits.

Steel Magnolias teaches us the age-old verity that friendship is a value that sustains us throughout our lives. On a deeper levelis the truth that friendship, simple friendship among neighbors and families, is perhaps the highest form of love. It gives much and demands everything and in the end provides strength beyond imagining. The play program carries a quote from Shakespeare that says it best: “I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”

Make Steel Magnolias your new holiday play. It runs at City Theatre at Airport Rd and 38 1/2 Street on the east side until December 22^nd.

Marble Falls High School Seeks Lighting Designer

Facebook announcement by M. Scott Tatum:

Lighting designer friends, Marble Falls HS is looking for someone for their spring production of Tarzan the Musical. You can contact Bryce Gage at BGage@mfisd.txed.net

2013 Globe Awards by Alamo Theatre Arts Council, San Antonio

Thanks to Deborah Martin's listing at Art Beat, San Antonio Express-News:







by Deborah Martin
October 14, 2013

Classic Theatre was the big winner at this year’s Alamo Theatre Arts Council’s Globe Awards, walking away with a total of 16 awards. Of those, nine went to the company’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

The Woodlawn Theatre and the Sheldon Vexler Theatre did pretty darn well, too, scoring 13 and 11 awards, respectively. The Woodlawn’s wins include People’s Choice Award, which was voted on by Globe attendees at Sunday’s (Oct. 13) awards ceremony; it went to “In the Heights.”

The Jasmina Wellinghoff Award for contributions to the city’s theater scene went to husband-and-wife team William McCrary and Michelle Pietri.

Without further ado, the other awards went to:

Comedy

Production: “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “Painting Churches” and “Scapin,” all produced by Classic Theatre of San Antonio.

Direction: Allan S. Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Matthew Byron Cassi, “Scapin,” Classic Theatre; and Roberto Prestigiacomo, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Lead actor: Bradley Tejeda, “Italian American Reconciliation,” The University of the Incarnate Word; Scott Leibowitz, “The 39 Steps,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; and Dru Barcus , “Scapin,” Classic Theatre.

Lead actress: Catherine Babbitt, “Chapter 2,” Woodlawn Theatre Black Box; Alyx Gonzales, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University; Terri Peña Ross, “Painting Churches,” Classic Theatre.

Supporting actor: John O’Neill, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Eric Montoya, “Italian American Reconciliation,” University of the Incarnate Word.

Supporting actress: Jo Grabow and Terri Peña Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre.

Drama

Production: “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre; “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Direction: Tim Hedgepeth, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theater; Paul Fillingim, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; and Seth Larson, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Lead actor: Andrew Thornton, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre; Jim Mammarella and Roger Alvarez, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Lead actress: Christy Huffman and Anna Gangai, “August: Osage County” and Belinda Harolds, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” both shows produced by the Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Supporting actor: Stephan Gaeth, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; and Rodman Bolek, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre.

Supporting actress: Jennifer Colacino, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Musicals

Production: “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; and “Ragtime,” Playhouse.

Direction: Vivienne Elborne, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; Ronald Watson, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; Christopher Rodriguez, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre.

Musical direction: Mary Lou Russell, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College.

Choreography: “In the Heights,” Woodlawn Theatre.

Lead actor: Gerardo Solis, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; Isidro Medina, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Theatre Black Box Theatre; and Walter Songer, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre.

Lead actress: Mariela Flor Olivo, “Spring Awakening,” Playhouse.

Supporting actor: Chris Berry and Michael J. Gonzalez, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; Rick Sanchez, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre .

Supporting actress: Seeley Stephens, “Let’s Go to the Movies,” Harlequin Dinner Theatre.

Design

Scene design: Ben Grabbill and Kurt Wehner, “In the Heights,” Woodlawn Theatre; Abigail Entsminger, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Ken Frazier, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; Allan S. Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre.

Costume design: Katherine Johnson and Greg Hinojosa, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre; Sophia Bolles, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Margaret Mitchell and Jodi Karjala, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Jodi Karjala and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Lighting design: Dylan Brainard, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; Felice Garcia, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Tim Francis and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Sound design: Rick Malone, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Alex Coy, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Rick Malone, “Painting Churches,” Classic Theatre; and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Adapted script: Sophia Bolles, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Original musical arrangements: Darrin Newhardt, “Scapin,” Classic Theatre.

Original musical score: Thomas Nyman and Kevin Parman, “Roads Courageous.”

Opening This Week in Central Texas, August 19 - 25, 2013 2013

Opening This Week

in Central Texas

August 19 - 25, 2013

Click images for additional information

Click HERE for a list of all productions CONTINUING on stage

Opening around Austin . . .

 

Sing, Muse! Vortex Repertory, August 23 - September 14

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Austin Print Journalists List Arts Favorites in 2012-2013 'Critics' Table' Nominations

Statesman and Chronicle arts writers announce their favorites for 2012-2013 with the annual 'Critics'Table' awards nominations:

The 2012-2013 Austin Critics' Table Awards nominations for theatre and design
(click to go to www.austin360.com for full list, including music and dance)
 

THEATER
Production, Drama
All My Sons, Palindrome Theatre
Colossal, UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
The Edge of Peace, UT Department of Theatre & Dance
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Poison Apple Initiative/Vestige Group
The Poison Squad, The Duplicates
Richard III, Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance
Rose Rage, The Hidden Room Theatre


Production, Comedy
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Palindrome Theatre
boom!, Capital T Theatre
Dividing the Estate, Zach Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Slip River, UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
Under Construction, Mary Moody Northen Theatre


Production, Musical
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Doctuh Mistuh Productions
Legally Blonde the Musical, Summer Stock Austin
Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price, The Dick Price Fan Club
Ragtime, Zach Theatre
The Sound of Music, Zilker Theatre Productions
Urinetown: The Musical, Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance


Theatrical Event
Austin Is a Place (You Are Here), Theatre En Bloc
The Girl With Time in Her Eyes, The Hidden Room Theatre
Hot Nights series, The Exchange Artists
Lord Wensleydale’s Last High Tea, Parallelogramophonograph
The Man Who Planted Trees, The Exchange Artists
Now Now Oh Now, Rude Mechanicals


Direction
Beth Burns, Rose Rage/Invisible, Inc.
Connor Hopkins, Toil and Trouble
David Long, Under Construction
Chuck Ney, Richard III
Austin Sheffield, All My Sons
Rachel Wiese, The Man Who Planted Trees


Acting in a Leading Role
Jill Blackwood, Xanadu/Ragtime/Goodnight Moon
Barbara Chisholm, The Importance of Being Earnest
Brock England, Rose Rage
Noel Gaulin, Accidental Death of an Anarchist/The Bear/Vodka, Fucking, and Television
Thomas Graves, Agnes and Alfred
Harvey Guion, All My Sons
Joey Hood, “I Am the Machine Gunner”
Hannah Kenah, Agnes and Alfred
Eugene Lee, Richard III
Mykal Monroe, Intimate Apparel
Cassadie Peterson, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Matt Radford, Rose Rage
Patty Rowell, Annie Get Your Gun
Kyle Scatliffe, Ragtime
Carrie Stephens, Betrayal


Acting in a Supporting Role
Joey Banks, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Nathan Brockett, All My Sons
Beth Broderick, Just Outside Redemption Fran Dorn, The Edge of Peace
Babs George, Mad Beat Hip & Gone
Ryan Hamilton, Just Outside Redemption
Jude Hickey, Vodka, Fucking, and Television
Robert Matney, Rose Rage
Nadine Mozon, Richard III
Laurence Pears, Rose Rage/Invisible, Inc.
Sydney Roberts, Urinetown: The Musical
Cara Spradley, The Scarlet Letter
Marijane Vandivier, Dividing the Estate


Ensemble Performance
The Importance of Being Earnest, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price, The Dick Price Fan Club
The Poison Squad, The Duplicates
Rose Rage, The Hidden Room
Under Construction, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
The Women of Juarez, UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival


Music Direction
Jordon Cunningham, Legally Blonde: The Musical
Jennifer Davis & Howard Burkitt, Rose Rage
Allen Robertson, Xanadu/Ragtime/Goodnight Moon
Lyova Rosanoff, Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price
John Vander Gheynst and Dustin Struhall, The Sound of Music


Movement
Cassie Abate, Urinetown: The Musical
Andrea Beckham and Jeff Simon, Colossal
Nick Demos, Ragtime/White Christmas
Danny Herman & Rocker Verastique, Under Construction
Jennifer Young Mahlstedt, Goodnight Moon
Courtney Wissinger, The Sound of Music


David Mark Cohen New Play Award
Adam Sultan, Steve Moore and Zeb L. West
Colossal, Andrew Hinderaker
The Edge of Peace, Suzan Zeder
Just Outside Redemption, Dennis Bailey
Now Now Oh Now, Kirk Lynn
The Poison Squad, The Duplicates
Slip River, Abe Koogler, Katie Bender, and Gabrielle Reisman
The Women of Juarez, Isaac Gomez and Bianca Sulaica


Touring Show, Theatre
Butt Kapinski: We Are the Dark, Deanna Fleysher/The Institution Theatre
Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore), Ant Hampton/Fusebox Festival Farfalle, Compagnia TPO/Scottish Rite Theatre
Heather Woodbury’s As the Globe Warms, Heather Woodbury/Vortex Repertory Company
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Zach Theatre
Watch Me Fall, Action Hero/Fusebox Festival
West Side Terri, Jay Fraley & Rude Guerilla Productions

DESIGN
 
Scenic Design
William Anderson, The Cataract
The Duplicates, The Poison Squad
Ia Ensterä, The 12th Labor/spacestation 1985/Bus Stop
Thomas Graves, Michelle Marchesseault, Leilah Stewart, et al. (?) Now Now Oh Now
Michelle Ney, Richard III
Cliff Simon, Dividing the Estate/33 Variations


Costume Design
Kaitlyn Aylward, The Cataract
Emily Cawood, “Wavemakers”
T’Cie Mancuso, Under Construction/The Importance of Being Earnest
Michelle Ney, Richard III
Susan Branch Towne, The Sound of Music/Xanadu/Ragtime
Chin-Hua Yeh, Intimate Apparel


Lighting Design
Jason Amato, Heaven-Earth-One/Ragtime/Pride and Prejudice/The Elementals: Earth
The Duplicates, The Poison Squad
Natalie George, spacestation 1985
Michelle Hebeck, Dividing the Estate/Xanadu/Mad Beat Hip & Gone
Stephen Pruitt, Solo Symphony
Theatre En Bloc, Austin Is a Place (You Are Here)


Sound Design
Craig Brock, Ragtime
The Duplicates, The Poison Squad
Robert Fisher, Now Now Oh Now
William Meadows, Heaven-Earth-One Buzz Moran, All My Sons/Under Construction/spacestation 1985
Miles Polaski, The Cataract


Video Design
Lowell Bartholomee, Vodka, Fucking, and Television
João Beira, Marta Ferraz, and Yago De Quay, “3D [Embodied]”
Colin Lowry, The Geometry of Proximity
Christopher Sousa-Wynn, Richard III
Lee Webster, “I Am the Machine Gunner”

Upcoming UT Exhibition: PORTFOLIO - The Future of Performance Design and Technology, April 28 - May 4, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents PORTFOLIO 2013, an exciting exhibition celebrating the work of emerging artists in costume design, lighting design, scenery, media, and technology. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Come see how imagination manifests itself on stage and film!

Opening Reception: April 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Exhibition Hours:
April 28, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
April 29 – May 2, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
May 4, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

Opinion: Elizabeth Cobbe Selects Top 10 Designer Contributions of 2012, Austin Chronicle

In today's weekly Austin Chronicle:

Top 10 Designer Contributions of 2012

Celebrating the year's most exquisite – and often surprising – stage designs

By Elizabeth Cobbe, Fri., Jan. 4, 2013


 

1) THE SEVEN DESIGNERS AND NINE ASSISTANTS FOR 'NOW NOW OH NOW' (Rude Mechanicals) The interactive set contained surprise after delightful surprise.

2) IA ENSTERÄ'S SET FOR 'THE TWELFTH LABOR' (Tutto Theatre Company) The roof of the family house seemed to disintegrate into the fly space.

3) ANN MARIE GORDON'S SET FOR 'WATER' (Vortex Repertory Company) The onstage waterfall introduced great potential for interaction with the dancers.

4) KATHRYN EADER'S LIGHTING FOR 'UNDER CONSTRUCTION' (Mary Moody Northen Theatre) The lighting tied together the work of a splendid design team.

5) DAVID UTLEY'S SET FOR 'THE PAVILION' (Penfold Theatre) Sometimes good, solid realism is just what you need.

6) K. ELIOT HAYNES' SOUND AND VIDEO FOR 'THE CRAPSTALL STREET BOYS' (Trouble Puppet Theater Company) One puppeteer carried a camera that projected onto a large screen, allowing for puppet close-ups.

7) GEORGE MARSOLEK'S SET FOR 'THE ATTIC SPACE' (Palindrome Theatre) The set showed literal layers, and Tara Cooper's puppets were also lovely in their detail.

8) HAYDEE ANTUNANO'S COSTUMES FOR 'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' (Austin Shakespeare) I am a sucker for a good Empire waist dress.

9) PAM FLETCHER FRIDAY'S COSTUME FOR 'THE ALIEN BABY PLAY' (Tutto Theatre Company) By the end, the alien baby in utero glowed with colorful lights.

10) SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE'S COSTUMES FOR 'XANADU' (Zach Theatre) The centaur is what did it.

Tech and Staff Opportunities at The Playhouse, San Antonio

Just announced by The Playhouse, San Antonio:

 

 

Employment Opportunities

Join Our Team!

Marketing and Development Coordinator: Click here for full description and submission guidelines. Submissions accepted through January 3, 2013.

Designers: Set, Lighting and Costume Designers are needed for shows in the The Playhouse Russell Hill Rogers and Cellar Theaters for shows this season and next. Designers are contracted for each show. Please submit resume and photographic samples of your work or drawings to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

Music Directors: Music Directors are needed at The Playhouse for upcoming and future shows. Music directors are contracted for each individual show. Please submit a resume to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

Professor of Costume Design Susan Mickey Honored by University of Texas Regents

From the University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance:

 Professor Susan Mickey Honored by UT System Board of Regents for Outstanding Teaching

Prof. Susan Mickey (image: J. Elissa Marshall)

Department of Theatre and Dance Professor Susan Mickey is among the twenty-seven UT Austin faculty members honored with the 2012 Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award, the UT System Board of Regents’ highest teaching distinction.

The award includes $25,000, and is considered among the nation’s largest cash prizes for higher education faculty members who exhibit outstanding classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction.

 

Mickey is an accomplished costume designer with over 30 years of professional experience in the field. She joined the Department of Theatre and Dance in 2004, and now serves as the senior associate chair and head of the design and technology area. Mickey brings to the classroom a working knowledge of the discipline having designed at most major regional theatres in the country. She has designed costumes for 15 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has been an associate artist with the Virginia Stage Company. In addition, she has designed costumes for more than 50 productions over 30 years at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta working there with many of the great directors, designers and playwrights of the American Stage.

 

In 2010 she won the Joseph Jeff Award for Best Costume Design for her work on the Chicago Shakespeare production of The Madness of George III. She is the winner of the 2010 College of Fine Arts Teaching Award and the 2008 Department of Theatre and Dance Teaching Excellence Award.

 

“Winning the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award is just the latest in a remarkable string of accomplishments by Professor Mickey,” said Chair Brant Pope. “She combines her internationally recognized design career with a deep and ongoing commitment to the teaching and mentoring of her students.”

 

Established in 2008, the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards program recognizes educators who demonstrate a clear commitment to teaching and sustained ability to deliver excellence to the undergraduate learning experience. A panel of students, peer faculty members and external reviewers evaluates the award nominees’ teaching performance over three years. Faculty members are considered through a rigorous process based on a range of activities and criteria that include expertise, curricula quality, innovative course development and student learning outcomes.

 

Past Department of Theatre and Dance recipients of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award include Andrea Beckham, Charlotte Canning and Franchelle Dorn.

T-Shirts for The Mikado - Barb Jernigan's Variations on the Hat Design

Designer Barb Jernigan has provided some variations of the most-favored design to date, an abstract that incorporates the extravagant hat worn by the Mikado (Russell Gregory):

Click to view additional variants and an array of available t-shirt colors

The Pleasure of Working with Designer Barb Jernigan for The Mikado, June 9 - 19

Barb Jernigan, resident scenic designer for the Georgetown Palace, kindly agreed to work up designs for the T-shirts that are traditionally sold for each grand summer production by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin (GSSA). From her magic sketchpad, here's the portfolio for The Mikado, playing June 9 - 19 (click here for further information about the production). Click here to purchase tickets for The Mikado on-line.

GSSA will order light-weight t-shirts in a color or colors similar to those used here for the backgrounds. The shirts will be available in men's and women's styles at the merchandise table in the lobby at our venue, the Travis Performing Arts Center.

Click to view seven more designs by Barb Jernigan for the t-shirt for The Mikado at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Photos by Allison Lowry of UT Makeup Class Projects

Allison Lowry published a portfolio of class makeup designs at the blog for Texas Performing Arts, January 13.

Excerpts:

Character Makeup class projects

January 13th, 2011·

One of my favorite parts of working at Texas Performing Arts is all of the opportunities for mentoring students. As the Wig and Makeup Specialist, I am constantly getting the chance to teach students many techniques for creating wigs and makeup. For the fall semester, I mentored five Department of Theatre and Dance students in a class called Character Makeup. The focus of this class was to teach the students many different methods to bring a character to life through the use of hair and makeup.

View additional designs at the UT Performing Arts blog . . . .