Cheryl Thomas Creative

Hair and Makeup Artist

Created to Create

About

Cheryl is award-winning makeup artist native of Atlanta, GA and a member of New York local hair and makeup Union 798 as well as the Los Angeles Hair/Makeup union 706. She currently lives in NYC and works on Disney’s Aladdin Broadway as well as being the Associate Hair/Makeup Supervisor for Disney’s Aladdin Worldwide. She has worked Tony award-winning Broadway shows “The Lion King,” Mary Poppins, “Aladdin”, “The Nance” starring Nathan Lane, “A Trip to Bountiful” starring Cecily Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat and Cuba Gooding Jr. She began her Broadway career working on “A Leap of Faith.”

Cheryl has been employed with the Disney touring productions of The Lion King (Hair/makeup supervisor) and “Mary Poppins” 1st National Tour (Makeup Supervisor). Along with “The Lion King” and Mary Poppins, Cheryl has also worked on Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and Deaf West/Theater of the Stars, “Big River” tour. She has designed and maintained wigs and makeup for The Atlanta Opera, Opera Carolina, True Colors Theater, The Alliance Theater, The Atlanta Ballet, and Theater of the Stars. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, North Carolina School of the Arts Design and Production Department, and NC School of the Arts School of Film in Winston Salem, NC. Cheryl has also been guest lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin theater department.

Cheryl’s skill and talent have not just limited her to the theater; her creative talent has also been seen in numerous fashion catalogs, Neiman Marcus “The Book,” Lands End, Macy’s, and Saks Fifth Ave; along with working live fashion shows for designers Channel, Giorgio Armani, St. John and Carolina Herrera.

She has worked with music greats Loretta Lynn, the late James Brown and the late Left Eye of TLC, Too Short, Arrested Development, Alicia Keys, Dionne Farris and Snoop Dogg. She has worked with CNN, CNN international, NBC World of Sports, Entertainment Tonight, E! Fashion Emergency, Chris Rock HBO comedy, numerous celebrities and cosmetic giants Revlon and Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Cheryl is honored to be a hair/makeup artist and lives by the motto: “All things are possible if you believe.

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