AWARDS
Winner of the 2009 Jeff Award; Outstanding Acheivements in Special Effects
Pittsburgh Post Gazatte; 2007 Special Mention for Special Effects
Hollywood Underground Film Festival; Project Valkyrie wins Best Genre Film 2001
“…WaterTower goes all out for Inishmore, securing the services of noted special effects artist Steve Tolin”
Theatre Jones, Mark Lowry
“Steve Tolin, … has become the go-to guy for productions of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore…”
Theatre Jones, Mark Lowry
“Steve Tolin is an award-winning special effects artist…the violent play requires an expert in carnage.”
KERA, Art and Seek, Jerome Weeks
"Special-effects wizard Steve Tolin brings on the blood in 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore"
Dallas News, Lawson Taitte
“Steve Tolin’s special effects…make marvelous the madcap mayhem.”
Critical Rant, Alexandra Bonefield
"The success of this production would not be possible...without special effects designer Steve Tolin..."
ChicagoTheaterBlog.com
"Inishmore puts a little 'ow' in 'meow'"
San Fransisco Gate , Robert Hurwitt
"Seeing Red in Inishmore"
Boston Globe, October 31, 2008
“The best performance in the show, though, might be Steve Tolin’s, whose amazing special effects result in some truly eye-popping gore.”
Alibi.com, Steven Robert Allen
“Special effects master Steve Tolin provides a realistic array of exploding wounds, dismembered heads and limbs, and decapitated cats.”
ABQ Journal, Barry Gaines
“Tolin's fine effects… remarkable for being in the small Heymann Theater"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Christopher Rawson
"Special Effects Wizard Steve Tolin is the key to PICT's Bloody Sattire"
Pittsburgh City Paper,
Brindon Purves
“Tolin… provide realistic props and effects while keeping the blood confined to the stage and cast -- an important and difficult task in the intimate Henry Heymann Theatre.
Pittsburgh Tribune review, Alice T. Carter
“Effects wiz preps for a violent 'Inishmore' at PICT”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Caitlin Price
Special-effects artist Steve Tolin promises that no cats -- or actors -- were harmed in the making of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore."
Pittsburgh tribune review, Alice T. Carter