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CopperCon 28 Masquerade Quick Review

The CopperCon 28 Masquerade on August 30, 2008 enjoyed a high degree of participation, with 27 persons on stage as 18 costumed presentations. The show opened with an “awww” with our young fen presentations and closed with a bang, with a decidedly grown-up display-only presentation of Mark Greenawalt’s body art modeled by Renee and Kevin as a green Orion dancer and her Romulan companion. Halftime was ably entertained by our visiting belly dancers, sometimes known as Suatura (a gypsy word meaning Legend).

Here are our participants. Click the link to see photograph. All of the pictures were taken by Mike Contos.

Young Fen Division

Julie Padegimas as “Kelly Sparrow” Special Mention for How Not to Use a Sword

Felicia Langholz as “Queen of Hearts” Special Mention for Best Transformation

Arcana Yanez as “Zombie with Head Wound” Special Mention for Best Living Dead Girl

Novice Division

Rachel Pierce, Jake Banister and Theron Pierce as "FF1: THe Mule" Special Mention for for Best Punchline
Dixie Austin, Madison West, Gabby Kaster, Lauren Null and Danielle Schultz as “Death Note Crack” Special Mention for Most (anime’) In-Jokes
Paula Lary as “Desert Queen” Special Mention for Best Costume on a Budget
Jessica Demer, Jason Estes and Ryan Billingham as “Hare Hare Yukai” Special Mention for Best Choreography
William Hearter Jr. as "Tyki Mikk"
William Hearter as “Shrubbery, the Dwarf Ent” Winner of Best in Novice Division
Bianca Williams (AKA Owl Depot) as “Kallen Kozuki” Winner of AniZona's Special Award for Best Anime' Costume
Todd Miles as "L from Death Note"

Experienced Division

John Autore as “Santa’s Little Helper” Warning! Special Mention for Most Eye-Burning
Lyn Jeppesen as "Snow Queen"

Chuck and Tasha Cady as "A Offering to Chernebog"

Melissa Kaylor as “Autumn, The Colors of Change” Winner of Best in Show
Theresa Contos as “Lt. Gay Ellis” (Purple-Haired Moon Lady from “UFO”) Winner of Best in the Experienced Division

Performance Only

Heidi Hearter as "Buttergreen Lolita"

Display Only

Renee Murdock and Kevin King as "Orion Slave Girl and Merchant" with special body art by Mark Greenawalt

Prizes were donated by Southwest Costumers Guild, AniZona and Mike & Theresa Contos.

Special thanks to our stellar crew. Technical problems which might have been show-killing disasters under other circumstances were solved before I even knew they existed. Unfortunately, my paper records don’t include the name of the gentleman who lent his laptop computer to solve our sound crisis. Like a digital Lone Ranger, he rode off into the sunset after saving the day.

The Crew

Master of Ceremonies – Jack Mangan

Sound Director – Gary Swaty

Photographer/Videographer – Michael Contos (including the photos used in this writeup)

Judges’ Liaison – Margaret Grady

Judges – Nyki Robertson, Shane Bryner, Greg Weisman, David Hedgecock

Backstage Manager – Sharan Hoyle

Den Mothers – Jean Palmer, Marian Brock-Anderson

Stage Crew – Melissa Trible, James Tomassoni, Tiffany Jeffords, David Jeppesen

Dancers – Raveena, Kate, Sabrina, Sophia, Clara, Harper Ann, Lady Brianna, Tasneem, N-Sha, Lavona

Dancers’ Sound Guy – DJ Dilo

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