Tag Archive
Okoboji Summer Theatre
17 items gathered across scenic projects and essays.
Projects
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.
Dial “M” for Murder
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2023
An elegant apartment held inside darkness, where every threshold, sightline, and piece of furniture sharpens suspense in Dial “M” for Murder.
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.
An Inspector Calls
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2022
The Birling home rendered as a composed domestic world built to fracture under pressure, with order, sightlines, and entrances serving the play’s moral unraveling.
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.
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.
Last Train to Nibroc
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2016
An intimate, warm playing space carved inside a much larger proscenium, using reclaimed barn wood, a slight rake, and a long backdrop to support closeness and quiet change in Last Train to Nibroc.
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.
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.
Rich Girl
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2014
A contemporary Manhattan penthouse becomes an elegant shell for Rich Girl, pairing polished minimalism with emotional exposure to reflect wealth, restraint, and fracture.
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.
Angel Street
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2013
A dense Victorian drawing room for Angel Street, letting domestic realism and psychological unease coexist inside the same controlled interior.
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.
The Glass Menagerie
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2011
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.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Okoboji Summer Theatre 2010
A deteriorating domestic interior for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, where faded surfaces, exposed repairs, and reclaimed timber mirror the family’s emotional instability.