The Glass Menagerie
A memory-driven domestic environment shaped through scrim walls and a revealed cityscape, giving The Glass Menagerie a world suspended between fragile realism and the urge to escape.

A Memory Space for Longing and Escape
This production of The Glass Menagerie was designed as a world shaped by memory rather than strict realism. The domestic environment needed to feel present enough for the family drama to land, but also unstable enough to suggest the emotional filtering of recollection, longing, and distance.
Scrim Walls and the City Beyond
Memory-inspired scrim walls allowed the apartment to feel both enclosed and permeable. As sightlines shifted, the city beyond could emerge through the scenic architecture, reinforcing the play's tension between confinement and escape. That revealed urban layer extended the emotional world of the family rather than acting as a simple background image.
Memory Held in Suspension
The goal was to support Tennessee Williams' fragile emotional architecture with a setting that felt haunted by memory but still playable for intimate domestic scenes. The environment needed to hold nostalgia, pressure, and the desire to leave, allowing the scenic world to echo the play's central tension without overwhelming it.
All Scenic Designs

Million Dollar Quartet
South Coast Repertory Theatre 2025

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

Bell, Book, and Candle
Okoboji Summer Theatre 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

All My Sons
Stephens College 2010

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