Jeff Semmerling has been working for the stage and performance since 1981

Currently ~ 12 MASKS ON BROADWAY!

Designer Jennifer Caprio included my masks in her production of "Falsettos," currently running in the Lincoln Center Theatre, ON BROADWAY!!! Photos coming....

5 Masks for THE SHINING by Stephan King
           Minnesota Opera May 2016

Service One

Our masks came right off the stage in this elaborate operatic staging of the King novel. My assistant Madeline O'Connor and I went to the opening met the costumers and designer who loved our masks. Below are a few photos of our contribution......

James and the Giant Peach Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Connecticut.

Puppets and Masks

We made insect puppets and two humanetta Aunts for this fabulous traveling production.

Check out the photos below.....

FLOWERING TREE an original opera by Chicago Opera Theatre

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We made this fabulous headdress for the production Worn by the KING.

HECUBA Columbia College, Chicago 2013 We made 35 masks for this ambitious Greek Tragedy. Many masks students helped prepare. Directed bu Andrea Diamond.

Other Production Photos

Since 1981 Jeff has been applying his training in theatre to bringing professional masks, puppets and props to the stage....

Among our famous clients.....



Broadway's Lincoln Center Theatre

Radio City Music Hall

Disney's MGM Studios Theme Park

NBC Productions

The Florida Grande Opera

The Minnesota Opera

Mill City Opera

Chicago Opera Theatre

Lyric Opera

The Alley Theatre. Houston

Goodman Theatre

New England Youth Theatre

New Canaan Summer Theatre

Filament Theatre

Famous Door Theatre

Ballet Arizona

Joel Hall Dancers

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

And Many more...

From your renderings or as your mask designer and maker ~ your actors will not believe how easy it is to work in a Semmerling mask.

Captions display on hover in the gallery below.....

Cardboard Masks Made for Florida Grand Opera production of "Romeo & Juliet" March 2012

Big masks, yet easy to wear.

Romeo I believe. This was the first show I did for the great designer Jennifer Caprio. I've done many since.

Click on this one and see the whole magnificent mask!

In 2017 Jennifer Caprio got 12 of my masks for Lincoln Center Theatre's "Falsettos," ON BROADWAY!

Leather crowns...

These were my designs for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The White Knight, some feel would be the Second Coming of Christ, he wears a Splendid Crown.

The Red Knight.

The Black Knight.

The Pale or Green knight

A photo by Tom Lane

Little hats... why not?

I'm sure they can be seen still in the Kiss Kiss Cabaret, Up Town Underground!

Jocaob Mills gave me the honor of making leather versions of his favorite noses....

June 2012 my second job for the prolific Jen Caprio was a "Pagliacci" she designed for the "Mill City Opera."

The masks worked out very well. The actor all became fans of my work.

Now in New Orleans I have some FANS!!!!

A Navi Mask made for a very important client's Halloween costume.

T. J. Corbett has a Commedia Dell'Arte Company in Michigan that uses some mighty fine masks.

We made a lot of masks for the Florida Grande Opera over the years.....

For my good friend and head of costuming Camilla Haith

I mean a lot of masks.....

....and not just for this production.

....of Rigoletto.

Another Tom Lane photo!

These horses were made for a production of "Gulliver's Travels." The Horse People.

By Chicago's "Little Buds Theatre" I believe.

Every once in a while I jump at a chance to work for Omen Sade.

Making this two sided god head for his production of "Orpheus?" I was on it.

One side Dionysus, god of transformation.

The other Hades, god of the Underworld.

The play started at a Bacchanal.

And with a turn of the head .... it moved to the Underworld.

Had we any budget at all fog would have poured from his mouth and his eyes would have lit up.

Instead they are still here in the corner of my studio.... Ready to rent.....?

There were also three Buffos in Omen Sade's "Orpheus." Presented and produced by Filament Theatre.

Sculpted and cast in plaster then made of neoprene rubber. These masks are in our catalog of masks. See my "MASK SHOP!" http://www.artsideoutstudio.com/mask-shop.html

Cardboard Pitch Forks.... See my instructional videos to see how to make them and cardboard torches.

Rabbits and Field Mouse made for a children's production of "Velveteen Rabbit" for the Kirk Players in Mundelein, IL... Now available for rent...

Or put together some things right out of our regular stock....

Frog... among 25 masks I made in 6 weeks for a production of "Ash Girl" for Action Theatre

Anger Bird, from "Ash Girl."

This Mask was designed for the film "Persephone," by the talented film maker Gwydhar Bratton of Blue Damen Films.

I think I sold one mask at this show.....

Go to my "MASK SHOP"