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RESUME

This resume is limited to my career as a makeup artist.  Please visit this link for my art education resume.

Education

Cinema Makeup School

January 2020 - March 2022

Los Angeles, CA, Complete Track: Beauty, Airbrush, Hair, Creature Maquette, Paint & Sketch, Character Makeup, Prosthetic Makeup, Special Effects Makeup, Advanced Beauty Theory, Advanced Lab Techniques, Zbrush, & Photoshop.

California State University Northridge

Fall 2014 - May 2019

Northridge, CA

Master’s of Art,  Art Education

Single Subject Teaching Credential, Art

Magna Cum Laude

Maryland Institute College of Art

Fall 2006 - Spring 2010

Baltimore, MD, BFA in Photography, Cum Laude

Makeup & Hairstyling Experience

 

Events

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Monsterpalooza - Demo: original design & creation, silicone & latex prosthetics - JUNE 2024

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Music Videos

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DragonForce x Brawl Stars “A Draco Tale” (Dir. Jake Johnston) - Key makeup & hair: beauty & natural - APRIL 2024

 

DragonForce “Burning Heart” (Dir. Jake Johnston) - Key makeup & hair: beauty & natural - NOVEMBER  2023

 

Nox Sinister “Crimson Mirror” (Dir. Dan Masso) - Key makeup & hair: beauty, SFX, blood FX -  SEPTEMBER  2023

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Film

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M83 (short, Dir. Erica Johnson) - Key makeup & hair: character, beauty, sfx (brain surgery) - FEBRUARY 2024

Synopsis: A professor of physics and his wife confront the reality of his advancing brain tumor.

 

Tale of the Red Knight’s Castle (short, Dir. Cooper Andrews) - Blood FX, slit throat & severed hand - JANUARY 2024

Synopsis: A knight and his loyal cook encounter danger on the eve of a blizzard.

 

Collision Film Initiative (4 shorts) - Key makeup & hair: beauty makeup & hair styling  OCTOBER - 2023 - Support (Dir. Amy Geist), Henry & Emma (Dir. Morgan Lester), Standards (Dir. Megan Gill), Through (Dir. Abby Tozer)

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Overtime (short, Dir. Martin Molpeceres) -  Key makeup & hair: injury, prosthetics, character, blood FX - JUNE 2023

Synopsis: A disgruntled exterminator of otherworldly creatures does his best to reject a runaway teen.

 

Too Slow (short, Dir. Stephen Vanderpool) - Key makeup & hair: character makeup (hair plugs)- JUNE 2023

Synopsis: A humiliated man tries to win his wife’s attention by getting a new car, suit, hair plugs, and revenge.

 

Sketch (3 pilot episodes) - Key makeup & hair: beauty, corrective, character, SFX, & hair - APRIL  2023 - Dirs. Vincent Walker, Miranda Montenegro, Daeil Kim

Synopsis: a cop-hating graffiti artist works with a police department as a sketch artist in order to find out who murdered his brother.

 

The Lights Above (short, Dir. Luke Salewski) - Key makeup & hair: historical makeup & hairstyling - MARCH  2023

Synopsis: a reporter teams up with a Japanese American at the start of WWII to investigate mysterious lights over Los Angeles.

 

Danny Boy (short, Dir. Cory Gorman) - Character makeup & hairstyling - DECEMBER  2022

Synopsis: Danny is haunted by an accident from his past as he comes to terms with his addiction.

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Bro (webisode, Dir. Pete Carboni) - Key makeup & hair: beauty & corrective - DECEMBER  2022

Synopsis: three friends are forced to confront unconscious racial bias at a birthday party.


Metamorphosis (short, Dir. Jui-Ting Tsao) - Key makeup & hair: beauty, character, hair, & blood FX - NOVEMBER  2022

Synopsis: A strained mother/daughter relationship becomes more volatile after the father’s death.

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Fumigation (short, Dir. Luis Cuevas) - Custom Prosthetic & SFX,  Blood FX - May  2022

Synopsis: A repressed fumigator has a destructive break with reality.

 

SWEAT (short, Dir. Ariel Mahler) - Character makeup - May  2022

Synopsis: A family with a ritualistic obsession for manual labor finds it difficult to open up to each other.

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Vivere (short, Dir. Daniel Sheahan) - Key makeup & hair: custom prosthetic creation & application, beauty, character, and injury makeup, creature application, & slit throat blood FX - MARCH  2022 - nominated for best SFX by Independent Horror Movie Awards -

Synopsis: Vivian is plagued by night terrors and can’t differentiate dreams from reality.

 

Jone (short, Dir. Jesse Pinho) - Key makeup & hair: character & beauty makeup  - JANUARY  2022

Synopsis: Jone, an android working in customer service, learns about human nature.

 

Molly (short, Dir. Gülnigar Nurhikim) - Character Makeup, Injuries, SFX,  & Blood FX - NOVEMBER  2021

Synopsis: WWI leaves a soldier wounded and left to make difficult decisions.

 

Truck n Bud (short, Dir. Alex Montilla) - Key makeup & hair:  character Makeup, Injuries, & Blood FX - OCTOBER  2021

Synopsis: Bud the handyman is called to do a simple junk removal job for a strange man. 

 

Lockdown Contours (feature, Dir. Marios Stilianakis) - Character & Corrective Makeup, Tattoo Cover - OCTOBER  2021

Synopsis: A man on a journey of self discovery, set during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.

 

Snickers (short, Dir. Grace Presse) - Character Makeup, Injuries & SFX - link - SEPTEMBER 2021

Synopsis: “You’re not you when you’re hungry” goes horribly wrong when a grotesque killer shows up to crash a Halloween party.

 

The Loneliest Whale in the World (short, Dir. Yi Zhang) - Beauty & Corrective Makeup, Hair - APRIL 2021

Synopsis: Under the influence of her troubled neighbor, Mino, a female programmer who stutters, finds an alternative way to communicate with the world.

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Commercials

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Rise of Kingdoms (Dir. David Murdico) Key makeup & hair: fantasy makeup & hairstyling - AUGUST & JUNE  2023


All City Plumbing (Dir. David Murdico) - Key makeup & hair: beauty & natural - APRIL  2023

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Learn4Life (Dir. Grace Presse) - Makeup and Hair - July  2022

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State of Survival - Makeup and Hair - May  2022

 

Fila 22 Q4 Golf (Dir. Juan Sierra) - Hair and Makeup Assistant - May  2022

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Skills

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Beauty makeup, character makeup, special effects makeup, mold making, clay sculpting, silicone & foam casting, silicone & foam seaming & patching, silicone & foam appliance painting, drawing, illustration, 3D printing, Adobe Creative Suite, Pinnacle Studio, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Microsoft Office, Google Classroom, G Suite, Mac and PC literate, digital & film photography, dark room operation, digital video, painting,  drawing, sculpture, basic French & Spanish

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