If you’re having make-up problems, Elizabeth Reed '10 will probably notice. Anyone wearing a wig should watch out, too--Liz is a wig and make-up artist.

This past summer, thanks to experience she gained in the St. Lawrence costume shop, Liz was accepted for an internship with the Utah Festival Opera Company in Logan, Utah. With UFOC, she was a wigs and make-up intern under the supervision of the head of those areas for the New York City Opera.

“I built wigs, maintained them, rolled and styled them, put them on performers, and applied hats and hair pieces,” Liz explains. She worked with the ensemble players, doing make-up and as many as 75 wigs per show for productions that included Porgy and Bess, Showboat and The Most Happy Fella.

Liz has been just as busy on campus. Besides her involvement with the SLU costume shop, the Wanakena, N.Y., resident and Clifton-Fine High School graduate is a member of the Advocates Program, which raises awareness of sexual violence. She is also a member of the Environmental Action Organization.  She lives in the Artists’ Guild theme house, which gives her a great place to be creative and express herself.

Although Liz is very much involved in the St. Lawrence artistic community, the double major in performance and communication arts and sociology claims that her most intriguing courses have been in sociology. “My sociology professors are enthusiastic about their subject and engage their students in class discussions, trying to get students to tease out the answers for themselves,” she says.

Following what is shaping up to be a busy year, Liz plans work for the Utah Festival Opera Company next summer and then work toward her master's degree in wigs and make-up at North Carolina School of the Arts.