Tag Archive
Stephens College
10 items gathered across scenic projects and essays.
Projects
An Enemy of the People
Stephens College 2023
A grayscale illustrated world punctured by red furniture, making scrutiny feel constant and comfort impossible in An Enemy of the People.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All My Sons
Stephens College 2010
A postwar suburban home that looks orderly on the surface, then uses that openness to expose the moral tension and quiet collapse beneath the Keller family’s carefully maintained world.
Articles
The Lights Were Already On: Maude Adams' Legacy at Stephens College
A scenic reflection on how Maude Adams' legacy at Stephens College continues to influence theatre training, pedagogy, and design values.
April 17, 2025
Designing the Keller Home: A Look Back at All My Sons
A scenic case study of All My Sons focused on spatial ethics, domestic realism, and the dramaturgy of the Keller home.
March 19, 2025