Jonathan Becker offers custom-made theatre masks to clients who need them for specific productions, classoom use or just to own. Jonathan works very hard to make sure each client gets exactly the masks that are needed.
Special attention is paid to the style in which they are going to be used, the aesthetic of the overall design of a production and the character traits needed for a particular script. He also guarantees that all of the masks he makes for theatrical use will play.
Custom work is priced according to each individual project. Very detailed estimates are provided to each client.
"There is no problem to which there is no solution."
Therefore when you ask: "Can we do…?" the answer will always be: "Yes!"
 Please scroll down for examples of Jonathan's Custom Masks!
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Custom Masks (The Collaborative Process):
Jonathan works with many of his clients to develop custom masks for new works, existing plays and individual use. The process of having custom masks made involves:
- Jonathan and the client (you) reach an understanding of the overall project.
- Jonathan and the client (you again) reach an understanding of the characters that the masks will become.
- The client (still you) reviews the initial sculptures proposed by Jonathan (this is often done via email through a review of digital photographs of the actual sculptures from which the masks will be made).
- The client (always you) suggests any changes or modifications.
- The client (you, you, you) reviews the changes made to the sculptures.
- You approve the sculptures, unless you want more changes.
- The approved sculptures are cast.
- The masks are made.
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Clients who have used Jonathan's Mask-making skills include:
  
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Jonathan worked directly with his clients to create the masks pictured below.
All of the masks pictured here were designed for specific productions.
Shpongled
Individual Artist Request
Burial At Thebes
Handcart Ensemble, NYC
Jack or the Submission
Platypus Theatre, San Francisco
James
and the Giant Peach
Atlantic International School
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
And Other Stories
Enchantment Theatre
New World Expedition
Educational Outreach
Medea
Clear Brook Winter Drumline
Pinnoccio
Enchantment Theatre
Beast Mask
Beauty and The Beast
Thiasos Kyttaro, Athens, Greece
Custom Project
Erik Rosenblum
Aesop's Fables
Opera Memphis
The
Fire Bird
Baltimore Symphony
Big
Nazo
Puppet for First Night
Crow
& Weasel
National High School Institute
Custom
Individual Masks
The
Furies
University of Richmond
The
Snow Queen
Enchantment Theatre
The Monkey King
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Old Chinese Man
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The
Merry Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel
Enchantment Theatre
Bravo:
"On With The Show!"
In
April 2001 Bravo, the arts and entertainment cable television
network, launched "Bravo, On With The Show," a major
grassroots initiative that in its first year will feature a 20-city
national touring theatre arts workshop conducted by Broadway teaching
artists. Jonathan Becker was hired as part of the teaching
team to make masks for the workshops, to help in the development
of curriculum and to teach three workshops for the tour. They
include, "Acting with Masks," "Physical Comedy,"
and "Storytelling."
Beauty and the Beast
Enchantment Theatre
Cinderella
Enchantment Theatre
Some
of these theatre masks are available for sale.
Contact Jonathan and ask
about buying a copy of one of these masks!
