Hair and Makeup/ SFX Design

Radium Girls

Early iteration of Irene Rudolph, the first to die in the show. Makeup later changed to be a lot more faded out. A skull was painted on her face with glow in the dark paint to show under the blacklight used in the show.
Actor pictured: Olivia Lam

First Hair and Makeup and SFX Design

Radium Girls was my first full designer position. It was Co-Designed with Chloe Ward. Radium girls gave me the chance to explore the looks of the 1920s and also get into the gruesome side of the horrors of the time. The Radium Girls suffered radium poisoning, causing deterioration, deformities, and growths to grow among their bodies. Making them look skinnier as the show went on, sinking in their features, and adding decay and bandages to the actors jaws was imperative for the audience to understand the stakes of the show.

Close-ups of Radium Girls

San Juan Hills High School
The Last Of Us
Haunted Maze

The Haunted Maze

Every year, my school puts on a Haunted Maze to raise money for the department. This year, our theme was The Last Of Us. The Last Of Us is a game about an fungal apocalypse that ravages the world and forces the world into survival mode when this fungal infection takes over the human population. As a big fan of the game/show, I took great pride in the work I did for this, spending 2 month prior to the maze building clicker heads, wigs with fungus growing out of them, and other prosthetic pieces.

Haunted Maze Progress Photos

Clue: On Stage - Weapons Injuries

Props to Special Effects

I built the prop weapons for Clue: On Stage. During the show characters are killed with these weapons so lots of the weapons needed SFX Doubles that could be applied for the actors hair and makeup/costumes. Each wound was meant to be a little out of reality to make sense with the comedic, board game aspect of the show and keep the show light, instead of heavy. Each piece had to be made a specific way to work with the blocking of the show. Perry's role was blocked to fall a lot and roll, so the pipe needed to be very stationary, so I took a double of the wig used by Hair and Makeup and attached the pipe directly to the wig. The dagger in Pivonka's bag needed to be able to be rolled and dropped on, so I made it completely out of foam besides the Velcro base that attached to their costume. Roche's real hair was used, so I couldn't just hot glue the candlestick to his head, so I attached the candlestick to a headband that hair and makeup could pin into his head with bobby pins for the short scene he is in.