Howard Berger

Howard Berger
Howard Berger shows off alien headpieces at the August 8, 2017 press tour.
Role	Make-up Department Head - Season 1 Special Make-up Effects Artist - Season 2
Date of birth	December 20, 1964
Place of birth	Burbank, California
External Links
Wikipedia

Howard Berger is a special make-up effects artist on The Orville. He was the make-up department head for Season 1.

Background

The son of a Hollywood sound engineer, Berger wanted to design monsters for movies since he was a child.

Berger began working on films, television, and theater the day after graduating high school in 1977. He is well known for his designs on a variety of projects and has earned multiple awards for his work on The Walking Dead, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Hitchcock, and Oz the Great and Powerful.

He worked under Seth MacFarlane and executive producer Jason Clark, creator of The Orville, on Ted 2.

The Orville

In early 2016, Clark approached Berger with the opportunity to join an upcoming show "with a lot of aliens on it." Clark had remembered Berger's work on Ted 2, in particular his work on a scene set at a comic-con that featured an impressive variety of make-up and costume designs. Berger agreed, read the pilot script, and phoned MacFarlane with suggestions. Over the course of the first season, Berger and key make-up artist Tami Lane designed most of the aliens on the show.

Berger lost his job as head of the make-up department while away for first half of Season 2, working instead on the set of Mile 22. When he returned Tami Lane (who used to work under him) had been promoted to department head and Berger was re-employed as a special make-up effects artist, focusing on alien creatures.

Awards

For their work on Season 1 of The Orville, Berger was nominated alongside Tami Lane and Garrett Immel by the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards for Best Special Make-up Effects - Television and New Media Series.

Trivia

• Both he and wardrobe designer Joseph Porro got their first job on the same show: Neon Maniacs.
• He played a puppet character of Kelly Grayson in a deleted scene from Mad Idolatry alongside prop master Bryan Rodgers (who played the injured girl).
• According to Adrianne Palicki (Kelly Grayson), Berger possesses the puppets used in a deleted scene in Mad Idolatry.

External links

• The IMDb Show: Berger and the KNB EFX studio talk Krill costumes
• Interview with the Planetary Union Network
• "Space and Beyond" - An article on designing the looks of the characters written in tandem with Maxine Morris

See also

• The World of the Orville, pages 14, 50, 76-78, 105, 110, 118, 131-33, 155