A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Project: Choose an artist and emulate their work for a theatrical production. I chose artist Edward Gorey.

Theseus’ Palace

The Mechanicals Meet

Fairy Forest

Fairy Forest 2

Fairy Forest 3

The Mechanicals’ Play

Guys and Dolls

The visual style of this production was inspired by the Dick Tracy comics of the 40s and 50s, the movie Dick Tracy  and Frank Miller’s Sin City. Instead of creating a realistic set of New York, I chose to use bold and bright colors, silhouettes, various line weights, and geometric shapes to frame scenery to mimic the use of panels in comics.

Research Image

Research Image

Research Image

Character Collage

Character Collage

Combined Ground Plan for Guys and Dolls

Sewers Elevation for Guys and Dolls

Hot Box Elevations for Guys and Dolls

Off Broadway Elevation for Guys and Dolls

Show Curtain

Broadway

Save a Soul Mission

Havana Cafe

Touring Havana

Touring Havana 2

Havana Nightclub

Havana (“I’ve never been in love before”)

Butterflies Are Free

Project: Build a white model for a box theater play set in the late 60s in Lower East Side, New York.

Research Image

Research Image

Character Collage- Don Baker

Character Collage- Jill

Character Collage- Mrs. Baker

Hand Drafted Ground Plan

White Model

Lighting Treatment

Lighting Treatment

Lighting Treatment

Lighting Treatment

Lighting Treatment