Costumes and Makeup at Montevallo!

Welcome! 
If you are here, then chances are you've picked up an info sheet at Trumbauer or another recruiting event!

Here are some fun facts and photos about Costume and Makeup options at UM in Theatre, please contact me at gille@montevallo.edu if you want to schedule a visit or have any questions!

First: A video made by former Costume student turned Journalism major, Clarke Stackhouse:
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The students you see in the video above are in various levels of Costume and Makeup Applied. In addition to listed 3 credit hour courses in design, technology and application of skills in the Theatre catalog, there are options for expanded study in topics and techniques of your choosing, like Jae talks about Undergraduate Research in the video above.

Previous and current topics include: Advanced Makeup techniques (prosthetics, expanded glamour design, wig styling and construction), Historical tailoring techniques, advanced pattern making, as well as special courses intended as senior capstone experiences in portfolio development and pre-professional career planning. Directed Studies are housed in the Theatre department and proposals can be made at any time. Undergraduate Research is a campus-wide initiative that is also available for proposals each semester; they LOOOOOOOVE Theatre majors! We do cool stuff...

For students with varied interests and career goals not completely addressed by any single major, there is a selective process for designing and completing an Interdisciplinary Studies major. Costume and Makeup topics to date in this area include: Conceptual Fashion Design (Costume Design, Retail Merchandising, Art and Business) and Theatre as Anthropology (Costume/Dramaturgy, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Photography). This option is available after the sophomore year and results from a careful mentorship with a Faculty Advisor and approval by the IDS Faculty Committee. It is a lot of work, but for the committed true "liberal arts" student, an exceptional opportunity.

Students have opportunities for design assistant/assistant designer and solo design assignments based on an application and qualifying process. Student designs you can see on my website here include:

SCAPIN Makeup by Stephanie (Farris) Welch '10

​THE BACCHAE Makeup by Sara Larson '12

​CABARET Kit Kat Girl Makeup by Katy Beddingfield '16

Plus many more crew chief (SPRING AWAKENING), assistant roles with significant creative responsibility, student produced designs, and recent productions for which photos aren't in yet!

​Feel free to browse my site as well as the University page for more photos and information! I hope to see you soon in the shop!

"EmG"