Tate Steinsiek
Special Effects

Tate Steinsiek Net Worth

Tate Steinsiek is an award-winning SFX Prosthetics artist, Conceptual Artist, and Director. He is the founder of the Makeup Special Effects Company "Ill Willed Productions" and has worked on productions in 10 countries. He has also worked on popular shows such as Saturday Night Live and Law & Order. Tate was a two-time finalist on Syfy's Competition Series FACE OFF and has directed multiple short films that have won Audience and Jury awards. He also directed the feature film ADDICTION: A 60's Love Story in 2014.
Tate Steinsiek is a member of Special Effects

Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Special Effects, Make Up Department, Actor
Birth Day March 17, 1978
Age 45 YEARS OLD
Occupation Make-up artist, musician
Years active 2004–present
Known for Appeared on Seasons 1 & 5 of SyFy television series Face Off

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1996

Steinsiek was born in Hitchita, Oklahoma to Butch Steinsiek, a boxer, and his wife Tommy Ann, an Artist. Steinsiek told the Tulsa World that his mother had been contacted by his preschool Teacher after he drew "a horrific Monster with big fangs, vomiting blood." The Teacher advised her not to allow Steinsiek to watch horror movies, to which she replied "he isn't allowed to anyway." He attended Morris High School in Morris, where he graduated in 1996. Steinsiek helped found the Tulsa-based groove metal band Pheed in January 1998, in which he played bass. After changing the band's name to Malevolence, the group garnered some local acclaim and, after opening for national acts Ice-T, Suicidal Tendencies, and Infectious Grooves the band relocated to Boston at the recommendation of their label.

2002

Shortly after relocating to Boston, Steinsiek left Malevolence to relocate again, this time to Pittsburgh, in order to work under the "Master of Splatters," Tom Savini. Savini then offered him the opportunity to work on the horror film Zombie Honeymoon, which was filming in New York City. Steinsiek relocated to Brooklyn in 2002, where he started his own SFX makeup company, Ill Willed Productions. By 2003, Steinsiek had provided special effects prosthetic makeup and prop fabrication work for clients including The Jim Henson Company, DreamWorks, NBC, HBO, and Xbox. While in New York, Steinsiek met his wife Holly, who is also a makeup artist; the pair worked together on the History Channel production Clash of the Gods, in which they each had an acting cameo as well. In 2006, he was featured on the reality series Making It Big, where he won the FX Challenge. As of September 2013, Steinsiek is in pre-production of his directorial debut, which is an adaptation of the Clive Barker short story Son of Celluloid.

2011

in 2011, Steinsiek was selected to compete in the first season of the SyFy reality series Face Off. Out of the original field of twelve contestants, Steinsiek made it to the final episode as one of the top three artists, eventually losing a tight race to winner Conor McCullagh. He was invited back to participate in the fifth season of the series, in which he and seven other series "veterans" were pitted against eight new contestants. In the season 5 episode "Living Art," Steinsiek dropped a clay mold onto his hand, crushing his fingers, resulting in his being taken to an emergency care clinic and receiving thirteen Stitches. His fellow contestants helped clean out his mold and apply the first layer of latex during his three-hour absence; however, the final result still put Steinsiek in the bottom of the Spotlight Challenge for the first time of the season. Steinsiek was again runner-up to eventual season winner Laura Tyler.

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