The Pirates of Penzance (2018)
This one requires a little explanation. It is, in fact, Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical play, but the director’s concept required that it be uprooted from 1880’s Penzance and moved, instead,…
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Women Laughing Alone With Salad
This odd foray into internalized stereotypes and personal psychological hangups has a script which bounces from a park to a nightclub to the 1920’s to an upscale restaurant, so…
Northside Hollow
Northside Hollow is a play that takes place at the bottom of a mine shaft during and after a cave-in. The design team’s collective goal was immersion, and my…
Ideation
So, what are we going to do with the bodies? The age-old question is thoroughly explored with mounting paranoia in Aaron Loeb’s Ideation, whose conference room setting quickly becomes…
The Drowning Girls
An indistinct, dreamlike Edwardian bathroom is what I designed for Urbanite Theatre’s production of The Drowning Girls. The script itself is the story of the life of serial killer George…
Reborning
If you are unfamiliar with the reborning phenomenon, it can be more than a little disquieting. Ultra-realistic replicas of actual babies, made by hand by gifted artisans, available on the…
Horine-Fleischmann Wedding
The bride and groom contacted me to build for them a “Steampunk wedding arch”, which I most happily designed and supplied, indeed, there were many different versions of it in…
The Sorcerer
Gilbert & Sullivan’s third collaboration and first in the attempt to create a truly English form of light opera, The Sorcerer, is a very silly plot concerning a love potion…
This Wonderful Life
My work appears in the Theater at Monmouth’s recurring holiday one-man show “This Wonderful Life”, starring Mike Anthony. When you have to enact an entire town at Christmastime, you need…
As You Like It
The Theater at Monmouth’s 2014 production of the Bard’s comedy of country courting and cross-dressing opened an amazing season of theater, dubbed “the British Invasion” for the number of British…