Newman's Commedia Mask Company

Web Links of Interest

Neoprene Performance Maskmakers

Neoprene is a medium used by many maskmakers. It is strong and inexpensive (often half the price of the leather masks on this page). Here are some good maskmakers in this medium:

• Bruce Marrs (the guy who played Godzilla in the Hollywood Movie): www.marzillamask.com
• Todd Espland: www.czuppa.com
• Johnathan Becker: www.theater-masks.com
• Craig Jacobrown makes neoprene and Latex commedia
  masks. He is based in Washington State: www.themaskery.com
• Jeff Semmerling makes neoprene and leather masks and teaches and facillitates mask making workshops in the Chicago area: www.maskartists.com

Maskmaker/Performers

The following maskmakers are also mask performers:

• Rob Faust: www.faustwork.com
• Larry Hunt: www.masque-hunt.org
• Todd Espland and Bruce Marrs (addresses above).

Outside the USA

• In Sweden: Torbjorn Alstrom makes exquisite commedia and performance masks from leather and wood: www.artmask.com.
• In the Netherlands: Joe Dieffenbacher makes great neoprene and Papier mache masks and also performs: www.nakupelle.demon.nl.
• Victor Reese is a Native Tsimsian Mask carver and story teller based in the Gulf Islands in BC, Canada, no web page but he can be emailed: sharon@cablelan.net.

Dell'Arte International

Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre teaches Mask Performance, Commedia Dell'Arte and Maskmaking as part of its Physical Theatre Studies and MFA program in Northern California: www.dellarte.com. Dell'Arte's Joan Schirle will also lead the Study Abroad Program Jan 30th thru March 2nd 2007 in Ubud Bali. The program (started in 1996) will include mask carving and mask performance.

If you are a mask maker, mask performer or teach in the realm of mask arts and would like to be linked on this website feel free to send your info to Newman: commediamask@yahoo.com.