Most college students don’t dress up as elderly Irish women during their free time, but last semester, Chris Harper proved that is exactly the sort of thing he is willing to do to achieve his dream of becoming an actor.
Harper, a junior acting major at the University of Arizona, played the role of 90-year-old alcoholic Mammy O’Dougal in the Arizona Repertory Theatre production of Martin McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” He has been a part of eight ART productions, but the role of Mammy required the most extensive makeup process yet.