Return of the Faces, The Final Chapter: Scanlon

Well, I'll be god damned. Part Three opens tomorrow. To. Mor. Row. But, before we do, I've got one more face to introduce and it ain't a face to be taken lightly. Sarah Scanlon is responsible for all of the makeup design you're about to see in Ping-Pong. You'll know this beyond a shadow of a doubt when you see her applying it. During the show. On stage. As the action is happening. You see, Part Three is taking a look at how we witness characters develop, how they change throughout the course of a life or the course of a show (six of one, half dozen of the other...). And in Ping-Pong, at least as it plays with The Nine, we watch them develop very directly and very visibly at the hands of one Sarah Scanlon. Young people gettin' old. Passionate people gettin' tired. Everything winding down. Eventually.

But TOO MUCH serious talk -- we'll save that for later. Here, meet Sarah, she's on the funtimes crew!

Sarah Scanlon is an artistic associate with the Strange Tree Group and has been acting, hanging from ceilings as an aerialist, and playing music in Chicago (with her band "Left Turn at Albuquerque") for the past few years. While she has experience in theatrical make-up (beauty, blood & gore, zombie/monster, and old age) this is the first time she's been asked to create make-up on stage while an actor is acting, and she thanks Bries for the fun and awesome challenge and chance to collaborate on something totally new! Past collaborations in Chicago include shows with the Strange Tree Group, The Factory Theater, The Building Stage, The Chicago Mammals, Babes with Blades, Redmoon, Metropolis Performing Arts Center; and readings with Chicago Dramatists and Dream Theatre. She has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School, the American Repertory Theatre, LAMDA, The Dell'arte School of Physical Theatre, and Western Michigan University.