MJ is an educator, project manager, mentor, and team-focused crew member. She loves creating, working with a team, and merging art and technology for creative and interesting projects that make a difference. She's easygoing and loves working with goal-oriented crews with a sense of humor.-Experienced in public speaking, mentoring, event & crowd management, event design, photo editing and graphic design, social media marketing, video editing, lighting and stage management, prop creation, wardrobe distressing, DMX, sculpting, painting, and other skills.-Values working in teams that understand their unique roles and work together seamlessly for the good of the production.-Workshops include NonViolent Communication skills, intern training in professional skills, collaborative group discussions, special effects training, and prop/wardrobe distressing.-Comfortable in a wide range of disciplines: on and off stage, film sets, designing, teaching, marketing and post production work, and more. She's keen to learn any new skill. (She actually started at EFX as a soldering intern.)-Studied makeup and hair under the tutelage of the wonderful Janet Swenson and two-time Emmy winner Karl Wesson (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Grinch, Dumb & Dumber, etc).-Practical special effects skills include: prosthetics & transfers, contouring, old age, airbrush (both beauty and stylized), moulage & gore, glamour, bald caps, crepe hair & ventilated hair pieces, prepping pincurls & anchoring wigs, mold-making & casting, life masks, artificial teeth, putty, facepainting, body art, distressing and weathering (both for wardrobe and actors).