Tag Archive
Musical Theatre
18 items gathered across scenic projects and essays.
Projects
Million Dollar Quartet
South Coast Repertory Theatre 2025
A co-scenic design for South Coast Repertory’s 2025 production of Million Dollar Quartet, built around the intimacy of Sun Records and the explosive energy of four artists changing music history together.
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.
Urinetown
University of Missouri 2024
A compressed civic machine for Urinetown, industrial, stratified, and sharply theatrical, built to hold the musical’s satire of scarcity, power, and class.
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.
Cole
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2023
A late-night jazz-age room for Cole, anchored by a grounded bar, black-and-white tile, and an onstage band so the music feels intimate and sourced from the space itself.
Head Over Heels
Theatre SilCo 2023
Arcadia reimagined through 1980s club culture, using a modular, high-saturation world that moves with the pulse of the Go-Go’s.
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.
The Man of La Mancha
Lake Dillon Theatre Company 2022
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 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.
A Smalltowne Christmas
Stephens College 2021
A nostalgic holiday setting shaped around warmth, tradition, and small-town cheer, creating a festive world that supports community, memory, and seasonal spectacle.
Urinetown
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2021
A dystopian musical world shaped through Brechtian and German Expressionist influence, using angular architecture, concrete textures, and symbolic lighting to sharpen the satire of Urinetown.
The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2021
A familiar high school gym stage becomes a container for time, letting 1960s polish shift into 1970s warmth, nostalgia, and reunion energy in Wonderettes: Dream On.
Company
University of California Irvine 2019
New York framed as a landscape of longing in Company, pairing coupled buildings, a lone brick structure, and a color-shifting skyline to reflect connection, solitude, and modern adulthood.
The Pajama Game
University of California Irvine 2019
Bold signage, modular factory architecture, and mid-century graphic energy support both romance and labor tension in The Pajama Game.
American Idiot
University of California Irvine 2018
Southern California concrete infrastructure fused with Green Day’s pulse, creating a stark environment of suburban monotony, urban decay, and restless transformation in American Idiot.
Little Shop of Horrors
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014
A weathered, believable Skid Row storefront grounds Little Shop of Horrors, using brick, patched trim, and a compressed frame to support the show’s darker sci-fi stakes.
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.