Zsófia Ötvös
Trap Door Credits
Make-up Design
- Nana (2024)
- Mother Courage and her Children
- Joan and the Fire
- The Ugly One
- Medea Material
- The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey
- Queen C
- Dinner with Marx
- And Away We Stared
- Discourse Without Grammar
- Decomposed Theatre
- Lipstick Lobotomy
- The White Plague
- Love and Information
- The Killer
- 25/25 Festival
- Tango
- The Old Woman Broods
- Naked
- Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman
- Letter of Love (The Fundamentals of Judo)
- The Locketeer
- THEY
- Occidental Express
- Into The Empty Sky
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Phèdre
- Fantasy Island for Dummies
- No Matter How Hard We Try
- How to Explain The History of Communism to Mental Patients
- The Duchess of Malfi
- The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
- The Universal Wolf
- The Woman Before
- La Bête
- Cookie Play
- John Doe
- Regarding the Just
- Vatzlav
- Judith: A Parting from the Body
- Blood on the Cat’s Neck
- The Balcony
- Core of the PUDEL: Gutting the Legend of Faust
- The Unveiling and Dozens of Cousins
- The Arsonists
- Smartphones
- Anger/Fly
- They Are Dying Out
- the word progress on my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true
- OVERWEIGHT, unimportant: MISSHAPE – A European Supper
- First Ladies
- Hamletmachine
- Me Too, I am Catherine Deneuve
- Chaste: An Awful Comedy
- Minna
- 12 Ophelias: A Play with Broken Songs
- A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
- Horses at the Window
- The Unconquered
- No Darkness Round My Stone
- The Beastly Bombing
- Eva Peron
- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
- The Fourth Sister
- The Crazy Locomotive
Resident Make-up Artist
Resident makeup artist Zsófia Ötvös (she/her/hers) joined Trap Door in 2015. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, she received a BA in art and theater from North Central College. About her style, she says, “I am an artist portraying characters that highlight their hearts and souls. My makeup design and my figurative paintings are both inspired from this sentiment with a strong favor to satire.” She has two websites, one for her makeup and one for fine art.
Gallery
Zsófia Ötvös’ makeup design is an essential part of the costuming because each character is masked with elaborate makeup designs.
Nancy Bishop, Third Coast Review (about Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman)
Costumes (Rachel Sypniewski) are spectacular, as are wigs (Igor Shashkin) and make-up (Zsofia Otvos).
Bill Esler, Buzz Center Stage (about Nana)
Costume designer Rachel Sypniewski and make-up designer Zsofia Otvos provide their own colorful take on the baroque…
Jacob Davis, Around the Town (about Queen C)
The makeup and costumes, done by Zsófia Ötvös and Rachel Sypniewski respectively, really enriched characters and took steps to further the symbolic themes of the show.
Clare Kosinski, Chicago Theatre Review (about The Balcony)
Rachel M. Sypniewski’s costumes are the visual highlight of the production, cleverly accessorized by Zsófia Ötvös’ makeup design.
Nancy Bishop, Third Coast Review (about Phèdre)