Katherine Larson - Ride The Cyclone Makeup Design

Mentored Makeup and Character Design 2025

Ride the Cyclone is a darkly comedic musical about six Canadian high school choir members who die in a roller coaster accident and find themselves in a limbo presided over by The Amazing Karnak, a defunct mechanical fortune teller. Karnak gives the teens a competition: the one who presents the most compelling case for their life gets to be resurrected. Katherine was responsible for designing specialty costumes and unique makeup for key characters. This included The Amazing Karnak and the dramatic costume for Ricky Potts' transformation into his wild, glam-rock fantasy alter ego. She also designed the unique makeup for Karnak and Jane Doe, the mysterious choir member whose body was unidentified after being decapitated. In the netherworld, Jane Doe’s design features an eerie porcelain doll's head and a small decapitated doll companion, underscoring the haunting themes of lost identity.

The Amazing Karnak Research and Character Inspiration Collage.