The Man of La Mancha
A warehouse-inspired found-object environment for Man of La Mancha, letting imagination emerge from raw material, live transformation, and a central ritual playing space.

A World Built in Front of Us
For The Man of La Mancha at Lake Dillon Theatre Company, I didn’t want to build a picturesque Spain. The director and I talked early about the story living inside a warehouse, a space where actors could assemble the world in front of us. That idea shaped everything, making the environment feel raw, performative, and always on the edge of transformation.
Industrial Ritual
The brick walls, exposed piping, and steel stair structure weren’t decorative. They grounded the room in something honest and industrial. At the center of the stage, a circular pattern scored into the floor created a playing arena that felt part ritual space and part proving ground. The musicians lived inside the environment rather than outside it, reinforcing the sense that this world was being made in real time.
Imagination Against the Real
Upstage, a windmill traced out of industrial pipe was never meant to feel literal. It worked more like an idea projected onto reality, the image of Quixote rather than an object itself. Distressed textures, modular crates, and repurposed materials let transformation come from performance and light rather than scene changes. The set didn’t illustrate fantasy; it asked the audience to create it with us.
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

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

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