Tim W

Much to the dismay of his parents, Tim has believed from a young age in the potential for the human scalp as a canvas for personal expression. At age 13, after his first week of high school, a friend helped him dye his hair blue for the first time, thus beginning a seven-year quest to have every color in the rainbow (and several that aren’t).... more »

Much to the dismay of his parents, Tim has believed from a young age in the potential for the human scalp as a canvas for personal expression. At age 13, after his first week of high school, a friend helped him dye his hair blue for the first time, thus beginning a seven-year quest to have every color in the rainbow (and several that aren’t). NEC saw Tim through many different shades, from deep blue to jet black, including a fire-engine-red faux-hawk for the undergraduate production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 2007.

In a moment of desperation during a protest of the 2008 Olympic Games, Tim was one of 104 people who shaved their head in the middle of Harvard Square and was pleased to discover that, despite his worst fears, his head was not particularly lumpy. For the next three months, Tim watched in wonder that hair could even still grow on his poor, abused scalp, and was reminded at long last what his natural hair color even was. But this respite was short lived; at the beginning of the summer, Tim was offered the role of Jack in Into the Woods at MIT, whose “carrot-top” red hair is discussed in the play. Rather than changing the script, he once again gave into temptation, but after a disastrous mishap with bleach, he burned a layer of skin right off his scalp. Amazingly enough, the color turned out perfectly. « less