I design worlds for live performance—spaces that reveal character, shape a story, and give performers a world to inhabit.
New Swan Theatre Company
A colorful, optimistic, and slightly eccentric vision of 1950s Southern California, designed in the round for New Swan Theatre Company’s outdoor musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
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Scenic environments that grow from the script, the architecture of the theatre, and the bodies moving through it. Composition, texture, light, and scale give a story physical form, creating a world that comes alive in performance.
Spatial storytelling beyond the stage. Events and environments use material, atmosphere, and movement to turn a place into an encounter—shaping what people notice, how they move, and what stays with them after they leave.
Personal concepts and rendered worlds where atmosphere leads the story. These images explore imagined architecture, unfamiliar landscapes, and the traces people leave behind, giving visual ideas room to develop beyond the requirements of a production.
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Apps, resources, and experiments shaped by a working design practice. Purpose-built, private by design, and made for creative work.
Explore the StudioNotes on design, process, and a working creative practice.
All articlesA scenic designer reflects on five accessible Orange County restaurant environments that use atmosphere, set dressing, lighting, layout, and mood to create small-scale themed experiences beyond the theme park.
Themed EntertainmentJul 1, 2026 · 9 min
A practical look at regional theatre creative-team compensation, from LORT minimums to non-union reality, and why a career in scenic design often begins long before it pays like one.
Career DevelopmentJun 16, 2026 · 15 min
A scenic designer does more than make a set. Scenic design turns script, space, collaboration, and performance into a world the audience can read.
Scenic DesignJun 11, 2026 · 4 min
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