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Makeup techniques for senior actors to define characters effectively.

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Makeup for Older Actors: Defining Your Character

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When Senior Theatre performers use makeup, they bring characters to life! Learn new techniques, products, and tools for a flawless application from a professional film/television/stage makeup artist.

 

SKU: 9064495 Categories: HOW TO RESOURCES, TipSheets Tags: Acting and Directing, makeup, Marketing, Starting a Senior Theatre, Teaching Tool
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By Patti Schulte

When Senior Theatre performers use makeup well, they can bring their characters to life! Learn new techniques, products, and tools for a flawless application. Discover how to adapt your makeup to accommodate older skin, wrinkles, balding heads, and other ‘joys’ of aging! You’ll discover how makeup can give your acting a whole new sense of strength and clarity. It makes a huge difference!

Learn techniques and adaptations to help older actors apply and use makeup. Topics include:

  • Everyday makeup vs. stage makeup
  • Skin care
  • Your makeup kit
  • Makeup products for the stage
  • Makeup tools
  • Makeup application and removal
  • and more!

About Patti Schulte

A Chicago native, Patti Schulte attended Columbia College of Chicago in Theatre Design, and Vancouver Film School’s Makeup, Design, Film, and Television program. While working backstage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a makeup artist for Madame Butterfly, the elaborate wigs were so exciting that she began studying the craft of wigs in a wig-making apprenticeship. Later she worked on hair in numerous feature film and TV productions.

Patti’s theatre projects include Vancouver Opera, the Moscow Classical Ballet’s Nutcracker, Broadway Disney’s The Lion King, and the national tour of The Wizard of Oz. Patti has worked on films such as Stargate: Atlantis, the L Word, Harper’s Island, Psych, Eureka, Fringe, and The Rise of the Apes.

Patti writes to encourage others to experience the joy of hair and makeup on stage!

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