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- I'm here with Becky in the wig shop
at the American Players Theatre.
How you doing? - I'm good.
How are you? - I'm well. Thanks
- So what is your role here?
- I am the wig master.
- Wig master? What does that entail?
- I oversee everything
that goes on the actors' heads, faces, sometimes bodies.
Anything hair-wise.
The process is really basic.
It is tying one hair at a time in nets, various types of net,
until you get to the very front of a wig or a beard or whatever.
Over and over again
about what feels like about three million times.
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It's not a hard skill to pick up.
It's really once you figure out,
once you've tied your first knot of hair
and then you have to repeat it.
And then, it's just practice.
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- We've made our way to the paint shop.
I'm here with Tiffany so she can share
what she does at the American Players Theatre.
How are you doing?
- I'm doing great.
- Tell us what you do.
- I'm the scenic paint charge.
And I'm in charge of painting all the scenery along
with my assistant charge and other scenic artist.
We just use outdoor strength paint.
Mostly just the white and the black exterior grade paint.
And use this stuff called Aquaplastic,
which is kind of our magic juice you could say.
For lack of a better word, that we mix into our paint
and we seal all of our set pieces with.
But everything we use is water-based for safety purposes.
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- I'm here with Harlan in the carpentry shop
of the American Players Theatre.
How you doing?
- Just fine, thank you.
- Can tell us about what you do here?
- Well I am the props carpenter
which means mostly my responsibility
is making furniture that we can't buy or need.
A good example of that would be
what I call the preemie grand piano
that I made a couple years ago
because a baby grand was too big for the set.
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- What's the best thing that you enjoy about working here?
- The people I get to know and deal with on a daily basis
is really the special thing.
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