Illwilled Productions
From script to screen, WE ARE HERE TO SCARE YOU...
CREATIVE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT - FULL PRODUCTION SERVICES - PRACTICAL MAKEUP FX & PROSTHETICS - CREATURE SUITS & PUPPETS - SPECIALIZED PROPS
Illwilled Productions is a Tulsa-born production company, built by award-winning Oklahoma filmmakers. Founded in 2002 as a prosthetic makeup and specialty props studio, IWP evolved into a full-service “script-to-screen” production studio when founder Tate Steinsiek joined forces with filmmakers Ben Meeks and Dylan Brodie, to meet the surge of film and TV production into Oklahoma, specifically those of the darker variety...
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Eligible for Cherokee Film incentives and Oklahoma rebates, IWP doubles the financial advantages for productions that partner with us. We staff full departments with seasoned HODs and local crew, provide rebatable post options, and offer complete creative development—concept art, storyboards, pre-vis, creature suits, prosthetics, animatronics, and fine-crafted cinematic oddities.
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From specialized props and digital sculpture to production logistics, rentals, post, and a multitude of location services, we’ve fueled projects across Oklahoma and beyond. What sets IWP apart is simple: we don’t just produce—we CREATE, your vision designed, fabricated, LIT & SHOT, cut and delivered. One stop... makes sense, doesn't it?
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If your project wanders into the surreal, the horrifying, or the beautifully strange, Illwilled Productions is your one-stop shop to drag that vision from spark to final cut. Welcome to the dark side of Oklahoma filmmaking.
TATE STEINSIEK
Tate Steinsiek - Film Maker - Monster Maker
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Oklahoma born Tate Steinsiek is an award winning SFX Prosthetics artist, Conceptual Artist, and Director. Since the inception of his Makeup Special Effects Company "Ill Willed Productions, Tate has directed films and coordinated Special Makeup Effects and Creature Design across the globe. From managing Prosthetic Makeup Departments in multiple international series for Discovery channel, to directing the 2022 reboot of Stuart Gordon's VHS classic CASTLE FREAK in the mountains of Albania, IWP has truly spanned the globe creating memorable & horrifying characters.
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Located in NYC 2004 - 2012, IWP provided Special Makeup FX for NY mainstays such as Saturday Night Live, Law & Order, and designed characters and creatures for multiple History & Discovery Channel series. While in NYC Tate joined Local 786 and worked in the FXMU Dept. for dozens of NY shot feature films, including THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN.
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In 2013 Tate left NYC and relocated IWP to Tulsa Oklahoma, as the state and native film incentives were established. Oklahoma was buzzing...
In 2019 Tate was nominated for a SATURN AWARD for his Prosthetic & puppet work on the Mel Gibson/Vince Vaughn crime drama DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE. Director S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) demanded realism, and not the bloody kind... tissues, easter colors... it paid off. Tate unfortunately lost to a film called "AVENGERS: END GAME" ... never heard of it. ​​
BEN MEEKS
DYLAN BRODIE
Tulsa-based filmmaker and music video producer Ben Meeks cut his teeth on the road as a touring band manager before moving behind the camera in Oklahoma’s fast-growing film scene.
He began his film career in Seattle Washington in 2010. After years running art departments for commercial productions, half a decade in studio management, and what feels like a lifetime producing/production designing music videos, he returned to Tulsa in 2018 to work on the Oscar winning feature “Minari”, where he fell in love with narrative film making.
Now a member of 484, Ben's work is featured in such productions as STILLWATER, REAGAN, SARAH'S OIL, FX Series THE LOW DOWN, and most recently Executive Producing the horror comedy/slasher “HORRIFIED”.
Dylan Brodie is from Ramona, Oklahoma - Population: 500. He began editing films in 2008, making his way from local to national film festivals, which led to work on Food Network productions and feature films for both Magnet Releasing and Blumhouse Productions.
He later served as UPM and Associate Producer on Sterlin Harjo's feature film, “Mekko,” and produced the series “Flipping The Heartland” for HGTV. Dylan has worked on shows of all sizes including the STARZ series “American Gods,” feature films “The Mule,” “Stillwater,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
He has been the UPM on commercials for companies including Nike, 2K Sports, Dish Network, and Warstic baseball bats featuring Jack White.
Dylan continues to produce and production manage diverse projects and recently served as UPM for the Oscar winning A24/Plan B film “Minari,” the Sundance 2023 selection and Apple Original Film “Fancy Dance,” and Associate Produced on all three seasons of the Emmy nominated Disney/FX series “Reservation Dogs.”
Dylan is currently Co-Producing on the new Disney/FX series “The Lowdown” from Sterlin Harjo.