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Stage Makeup Class Pages 3: Meet Your Professor: Tara Maginnis

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC. If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need for your classes].

Tara in trick hat with ears that move

I am very pleased to have you in my class.  Really, I actually am. You student people are fun!  If you are in doubt check out 10 years of photos of how much fun my DVC makeup students are. Some facts about me: 

Tara on her 1st birthday with her mother Marion Maginnis
  • Born in Northern California.
  • Went to a California Community College (College of Marin).
  • Transferred to San Francisco State University and got a BA in History.
  • Got a MA in Theatrical Design at CSU Fresno.
  • Got a Ph.D. in Theatre History at the University of Georgia.
  • My dissertation was on Fashion Shows, Strip Shows and Beauty Pageants.
  • Tara in Russia 1994I once presented papers at two conferences on the same weekend in Los Angeles. One was a UCLA Conference on Burlesque, the other a Strippers Convention!
  • I worked as a Professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for 18 years.
  • You can vaporize hot water into a cloud instantly there in Winter.
  • I’ve been teaching stage makeup classes since the early 1990s.
  • I took a year off to live alone in St. Petersburg, Russia in the mid 1990s as a hippie theatre artist.
  • I don’t speak Russian. I can’t do times tables.  I will likely be unable to remember your name or connect it properly to your face. (This is part of why I take your “mug-shots”.)
  • As my mother was dying in 2007 and her vision was messed up, I read her all 7 Harry Potter books out loud, including doing all the funny voices.
  • I obsessively collect 1860s-1920s men’s detachable shirt collars.  
  • I watch MSNBC while I cut up my old soda bottles into flowers like this:
  • I have been working at DVC as Costume Designer for the Drama department since 2008.
  • You can see my costume designs here.
  • If you need to contact me you can always text or call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX 11am-11pm, but if you just want to visit at my office half “hour” this is when it happens: Tara Maginnis Office “Hour” Mondays & Wednesdays 1-2pm in PA 121 (cubicle off the Greenroom with giant wooden scissors in the window).