Claire Banta
- Make-Up Department
- Actress
- Special Effects
Claire Banta is a freelance special effects make-up artist that has
been active in film since 2012. Started experimenting with bruising at
the age of twelve and evolved into working as stage crew manager in
high school productions to the special effects makeup artist for high
school performances and musicals. Entered Walker High School's marching
band as the key make-up artist and became lead actress in both an
indoor percussion circuit and later in the field show adaptation of
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved half time show. Aside from marching band
and high school theatre productions, she also took the roles of actress
and make-up artist at Deadwing Manor Haunted House in Livingston, LA.
Later she co-produced and was doubled cast in a student led performance
of Alice in Wonderland before graduating high school. Summer of 2012
she started working with "Project Z", a web series directed by Savage
Light Studios and Cross the Bayou Productions, and has been working on
film ever since. She has also been employed as a make-up artist at the
13th Gate Haunted House in Baton Rouge, LA. 2012 she also began
attending college in pursuit of becoming a mortician and landed as a
shadow to an embalmer in 2013.