Costumes & Makeup - Performing Arts - Production Role Resources

Theatre Makeup

American Theatre Wing 2013. In the Wings: Angelina Avallone Make Up Designer. Online video, 30 October 2013. Duration: 7 minutes.

Provides a very good overview of a makeup designers role - the researcher they undertake to create a design, and how they collaborate with the actors and other theatre roles.

American Theatre Wing 2016. Working in the theatre: Makeup. Online video, 4 August 2016. Duration: 20 min.

Documentary of two Broadway make-up artists who discuss their makeup career, how they make up is used to develop a character, and how makeup is maintained during a performance - particularly when a character requires multiple makeup changes.

Makeup FX Tutorials - Smooth-On
Video tutorials on using different silicone products and techniques to create a rage of gory effects including zombie prosthetics, burns, wounds (with or without debris), bullet holes and even a slit throat!
Building your first makeup kit - Dramatics
The difference between everyday and stage makeup, and how to build your own essential kit to build on as you develop new characters.
Hair and makeup artist handbook
Use the Vintage Hair and Makeup menu for inspiration and instructions (e.g. style and colour palette for the different makeup elements) for recreating looks from a particular decade.

Playbill 2018. Watch this Broadway makeup designer recreate the faces of 6 iconic characters. Online video, 3 October 2018. Duration: 14 min.

The characters are probably not that iconic as the title suggests, but they can serve as a tutorial on how to achieve a number of different makeup looks, with valuable professional tips and techniques.

Loreto College Make-up and Costume Resources

Costume Resources folder on Google Drive
Documents include male and female figure templates and examples, and costume plot templates and examples.
Make-up Resources folder on Google Drive
Documents include a make-up face template, sample roster and process document for planning, design and presentation of make-up.
Audit Checklist - Costume
Audit Checklist - Make Up
Past Production Workbook Folder for Jane Eyre

Books from the Library - Make-up

Stage Make-up Step-by-Step by Rosemarie Swinfield
Call Number: NF 792.027 SWI
ISBN: 155870390X
Publication Date: 1995
Makeup Is Art by Academy of Freelance Makeup Staff
Call Number: NF 646.726 MAK
ISBN: 9781847326201
Publication Date: 2011
Theatrical Makeup by Bert Broe
Call Number: NF 792.027 BRO
ISBN: 0720715261
Publication Date: 1984
Stage Makeup by Richard Corson
Call Number: NF 792.027 COR
ISBN: 0138405395
Publication Date: 1990

Costume design - teacher resources

Characteristic Costume Design - BYU Theatre Education
Series of lessons illustrating how to communicate traits of a character though a Shakespeare costume design project.
Costume design lesson plan and rubric - STEM Read (Northern Illinois University)
Costume design: Defining character - Oscars
A teacher's guide for costume design - how costumes tell a story and create a character, work within the composition of a scene, define a period in history and express culture and identity. Includes student activities. Uses film as example, but equally applicable to the stage.

Costumes

The art of costuming: Interpreting the character through the costume designer's eyes (essay)
Detailed (honors) essay on costuming, including the research process, concept, time period and character traits, sketches and construction, working with cast and crew and how costume communicates with the audience.
Elizabethan Costume Page
Everything about and to do with Elizabethan costume for all members of society - clothing items, hats and headwear, accessories, colours and fabrics, patterns and more.
Costume quick change - How to make a seamless costume quick change - Dramatics
Article which focuses on the logistics of backstage costume changes, thoughtful costume design to facilitate costume layering and changes, and the need to consider costume requirements from the very start of the production process.

Costume designer's checklist - SACE
Checklist for costume designer actions for each week through a sample 12 week production cycle. This highlights the process of costume design and how the role fits in with others in the production.

Costume Design - Melanie Blood, SUNY Geneseo
Objectives, tools and process of costume design. Some aspects of makeup are also covered.

Working in Costume and Wardrobe

Center Theatre Group 2016. Working in theatre: costume designer. Online video, 3 November 2016. Duration: 3 mins.

A day in the life of a costume designer - what they do and the skills they need.

American Theatre Wing 2018. Working in the theatre: wardrobe. Online video, 25 October 2018. Duration: 28 min.

A fascinating look at the behind the scenes roles and activities involved in ensuring the flawless presentation of characters night after night.

American Theatre Wing 2014. Classic clips: "Mary Poppins" costume quick change. Online video, 20 March 2014. Duration: 2 mins.

Books from the Library - Costume

The Library has many costume and fashion sourcebooks for different decades, eras and centuries to help you define the "look" for a play's time setting. If you are browsing the non-fiction shelves for inspiration, outside the staging theatre area (792) have a look at the following call numbers:

391 - Costume & accessories for different time periods, groups of people, occasions

746.9 - Fashion design

646 - Construction of clothing and accessories