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tormented by the consequences of his own making. Act 1 begins with a beauty make- up emphasizing his features and contouring and highlighting his face. However, Act 1 is very energetic for Victor as he expresses his excitement in bringing the creature to life. By the time Victor exits the stage, he is drenched and catching his breath, so on tour, I assigned an artist to take over my role and spend a few minutes to help dry him off, check his queue, Our home team crew for Frankenstein includes me and four make-up artists in addition to the two effects artists solely dedicated to the creature. When the hair team is added in, it makes for a very busy and crowded room. Since the creature is such an intensely demanding role, both emotionally and physically, we wanted to treat the make- up process much differently from our typical theater setup and create a quiet area for the dancer who performs the role instead of having them prepare in the same room in where everyone gets their wigs and make- up done. Additionally, the costume is quite sheer, and a lot of body painting happens, so the separate room offers some privacy, as well as space for working. We had a good solution for this in the Opera House by using another men's dressing room down the hall from our make-up room. However, when we went on the road, we found that there was not an available space solely for the creature make-up and we all ended up with my road crate, our barber's chair, and a table set up in a men's bathroom which created a special environment when our artistic director came to observe us and the motion detector urinals kept flushing during the process! While there are many steps to achieving the final look, the two artists assigned to the creature must work in tandem to complete everything on time. The make-up takes an hour and a half—an incredibly long process in the theater world! Once any tattoos are covered, the bald cap application begins. We use two types of skin protectant (Marly Skin and reapply the make-up that had melted off. In Act 2, Victor sees the death of his little brother and starts to realize that his creation is not all well and good and that perhaps there were boundaries that shouldn't have been breached. Between Acts 2 and 3, we try to show the darkened, hollowed eyes and face of a man descending into madness by applying a dark gray shadow in his eye sockets and heavily deepening his cheek contouring. Joshua Price. Makeup Artists: Lisa Zomer and Bruna Nogueira 706 Crew, L-R: Amy Sparks, Tania Vega, Flo Witherspoon, Teresa Mariscal, Donna Levy, Lisa Zomer, Kimberly Robinson, Thomas Richards-Keyes, Victoria Lee, Carol Mitchell, Joyce Cantrell, Marylou Hernandez, Tasha Calderon, Karen Zanki Photo by Victor Del Castillo