Portfolio

Portfolio pieces of class designs as well as designs for actual realized productions.

Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Josef is a brave depiction of the mutual racism between America and the Middle East. Written during the Iraq War, Josef uses abstract symbolism and language left untranslated to get his story across.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety by Kristoffer Diaz is a comedy about the world of professional wrestling. The protagonist Macedonia Guerra is a very skilled wrestler and is fed up with making wrestling hero Chad Diety, a terrible wrestler, look good. This show is fun and over the top with a message of the unfair stereotypes used in wrestling and accepting your lot in life.

4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane is what most consider the author’s suicide note. This play is unique in the fact that there are no specified characters or locations. It is organized in a poetic fashion with words slanting to the right or indented into smaller paragraphs. In my concept I want this hypothetical production to be a horror play. Audience members would wear headphones so sounds can come from specific locations in the space to heighten the audience’s feeling of peril. Warning: unsettling images used.

Lysistrata by Aristophanes is an Ancient Greek play that still manages to be relevant today. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to hold together in abstinence until their husbands agree to come home from war. This adaptation has a fun and modern twist that makes the old text understandable for today’s audience. Director Rufus Bonds Jr. had a vision of hip hop harps and from that jumping off point I dove into this design. I did a ton of midi work and had an absolute blast working with this design team and wonderful cast.

When a pandemic hits but you still want to create theatre what do you do? Make it a podcast production of course! Recording a podcast while begin Covid safe was quite a challenge, but I think the production team rose to the occasion. Each actor pulled into my driveway in their car. I used an articulated boom and stuck it in the car window. I had them roll up the window as far as they could and threw a moving blanket over the window to isolate sound as much as possible. For the most part everything worked out pretty well! Hundreds of hours of editing dialogue and 542 tracks of SFX later, the podcast was complete. I worked extremely hard on this project and would so appreciate you taking the time to listen. Above is the entire hour and a half podcast play with cover art that I drew in procreate.

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