Kiara McLintock

Versatile actor and makeup artist with extensive background in theater. Multi-talented theatre student and team player. Flexible with meeting new challenges and tackling changing priorities in creative environments. Great communication and people skills. Happy to perform as any level of character and put in the necessary background work to bring the role to life.

Most to least recent:

Pressing (a new play written by a student in the MFA program) Agata: a Polish immigrant mother constantly worrying about her son - The University of New Mexico

Anastasia: Dunya/Ensemble - Washington Community High School

Shrek the Musical: Mama Bear/Ensemble - Washington Community High School

The Sound of Music: Nun/Ensemble - Washington Community High School

Choir: 4th grade - High School

Peter Pan: Princess Tiger Lily - Central Intermediate School

Dorothy in Wonderland: The Knave of Hearts - Central Intermediate School

The Big Bad Musical: Little Red Riding Hood - Central Intermediate School

Drama Club: High School - Washington Community High School

Speech/Drama Club: 5th Grade - 8th Grade - Central Intermediate School

Improv: 7th and 8th Grade - Central Intermediate School

- My freshman year of college, I auditioned for several new plays (written by MFA students)being performed for a festival. I got callbacks to all 3 plays. The one I was cast in was called Pressing, and I was cast as a Polish immigrant mother. It's practically unheard of for a freshman to be cast in this festival, and I made it happen my very first year.

- In grade school during a speech competition, my trio won Judge's Choice for the judges' overall favorite performance of the night.

I am currently a sophomore at the University of New Mexico and I'm majoring in Theatre. I've taken several classes within the theatre world and have learned a lot of valuable things. In one of my many acting classes, my instructor, Theresa Carson, taught us several acting methods. I have beginner experience in the methods of Chekhov and Stanislavski, as well as many others.

I completed a semester long Ballroom Dancing class, which I really enjoyed. This helped me gain some more general dancing skills as well as reinforce ones I already had.

One of my cast-mates from the play I was in freshman year asked me to be in a stage reading of the play she would later direct. I went to a couple of rehearsals and prepped for reading to a test audience.

As a hobby, I love doing makeup and SFX makeup. For years, I've been playing around with makeup looks, both for every day wear and creative experimentation. In high school, I began teaching myself how to do SFX makeup. I have created lots of hyper-realistic, bloody, gory wounds. I've created various types of fake wounds including bullet wounds, deep cuts, a gouged out eye, bruises, etc. 

I have been asked to do makeup for weddings, proms, school dances, and stage performances. For all the shows I was involved in with my high school, I was the unofficial designated makeup artist. Since so many people didn't know how to apply their own makeup, so many of the cast members always asked me to apply their stage makeup.