Tag Archive
Comedy
16 items gathered across scenic projects and essays.
Projects
Bell, Book, and Candle
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2025
A grounded mid-century apartment for Bell, Book, and Candle, built to let wit, intimacy, and supernatural undertones emerge from a believable domestic interior.
Much Ado About Nothing
New Swan Theatre Festival 2025
Shakespeare’s romantic comedy reframed through a wild-west visual world of saloon architecture, rough timber, and repertory-friendly frontier detail.
Guys on Ice
The Great American Melodrama 2025
A playable frozen-lake environment for Guys on Ice, balancing broad musical comedy with the quiet sincerity of Midwestern winter life.
Barefoot in the Park
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2024
A compact New York walk-up whose scale, stairs, and thresholds turn Barefoot in the Park into a comedy of spatial pressure.
Freaky Friday
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2024
A fast, flexible scenic system for Freaky Friday, designed to hold body-swap comedy, emotional reversals, and high-energy ensemble motion without losing clarity.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Stephens College 2023
A recognizable middle school gymnasium whose plainspoken details ground the awkward humor and surprising sincerity of Spelling Bee.
Boeing, Boeing
Stephens College 2023
A sleek Paris apartment turned into a machine for farce, using polished surfaces, calibrated entrances, and escalating comic collapse in Boeing, Boeing.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Lake Dillon Theatre Company 2022
Three heightened Roman façades turned A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum into a comic machine, balancing classical reference with cartoon-like exaggeration and the speed of farce.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Stephens College 2022
Shakespeare’s comedy reframed as a campy 1950s sitcom, with bold color, graphic framing, and flown doors giving Merry Wives a faster, more cinematic rhythm.
The Bald Soprano
Stephens College 2022
An absurd domestic interior bent out of proportion, where scenic and lighting design worked together to turn polite drawing-room order into something unstable, comic, and quietly threatening.
Not Now, Darling
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2018
A British boutique interior sharpened with Wes Anderson-inspired color and farce-ready door logic, giving Not Now, Darling a polished comic world built for speed, confusion, and precision.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Stephens College 2016
A Bucks County porch that feels both sheltering and restrictive, giving Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike a nostalgic domestic frame for rivalry, wit, and longing.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014
A playful, modular comic set built for speed, theatrical irreverence, and rapid-fire transitions through Shakespeare’s canon.
Bingo: The Winning Musical
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013
A playful nautical world for Okoboji Summer Theatre, using lakeside color, retail-comedy brightness, and musical-theatre clarity to support the show's fast humor and local charm.
Don't Dress for Dinner
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013
A restored French farmhouse reimagined as both romantic getaway and comedic trap, using exposed timber beams, textured plaster, and a tightly organized layout to support farce.
The Liar
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2012
A classical comic world built with elegance, color, and playful exaggeration, giving The Liar a refined environment that could support wit, deception, and fast-moving farce.