Bell, Book, and Candle
A grounded mid-century apartment for Bell, Book, and Candle, built to let wit, intimacy, and supernatural undertones emerge from a believable domestic interior.

A Room Built for Realism
The scenic design for Bell, Book and Candle, directed by Richard Biever, was rooted in realism. The goal was to create a fully realized apartment interior that felt lived-in, functional, and emotionally specific, an environment where the characters could exist naturally and the performances could carry the theatrical weight.
Domestic Scale and Subtle Magic
The space was conceived as a complete room rather than a suggestion of one. Built-in bookshelves, practical doors, and defined wall planes established permanence and weight, while furniture placement supported blocking and sightlines without sacrificing the rhythms of everyday life.
Color shaped the atmosphere in quieter ways. The decision to use green walls gave the apartment warmth and personality without pushing it into stylization. That palette helped the set hold the play’s familiar wit and slight enchantment at the same time, keeping the world grounded while letting the supernatural elements live just beneath the surface.
A Room with a Whisper of Magic
Textures and finishes keep the apartment grounded in believable mid-century domestic life, which gives the supernatural undertones somewhere solid to land.
Green walls, practical detail, and lived-in warmth keep the room human and specific, so the play's enchantment feels like it is slipping in through the edges instead of announcing itself.
All Scenic Designs

The Glass Menagerie
Maples Repertory Theatre 2025

Million Dollar Quartet
South Coast Repertory Theatre 2025

All's Well That Ends Well
New Swan Theatre Festival 2025

Much Ado About Nothing
New Swan Theatre Festival 2025

Guys on Ice
The Great American Melodrama 2025

Romero
University of Missouri 2025

Urinetown
University of Missouri 2024

Barefoot in the Park
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2024

Freaky Friday
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2024

An Enemy of the People
Stephens College 2023

Dial “M” for Murder
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2023

Cole
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2023

Head Over Heels
Theatre SilCo 2023

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Stephens College 2023

¡LOTERIA: GAME ON!
Theatre SilCo 2023

Boeing, Boeing
Stephens College 2023

An Inspector Calls
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2022

The Man of La Mancha
Lake Dillon Theatre Company 2022

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Lake Dillon Theatre Company 2022

Tomás and the Library Lady
Lake Dillon Theatre Company 2022

The Merry Wives of Windsor
Stephens College 2022

The Bald Soprano
Stephens College 2022

A Smalltowne Christmas
Stephens College 2021

Urinetown
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2021

The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2021

The Penelopiad
University of California Irvine 2020

Company
University of California Irvine 2019

The Pajama Game
University of California Irvine 2019

Parliament Square
University of California Irvine 2019

Not Now, Darling
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2018

American Idiot
University of California Irvine 2018

Last Train to Nibroc
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2016

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Stephens College 2016

Little Shop of Horrors
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014

Rich Girl
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014

Angel Street
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013

Bingo: The Winning Musical
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013

Don't Dress for Dinner
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013

The Liar
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2012

The Glass Menagerie
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2011

All My Sons
Stephens College 2010

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2010

