Theatre

The Death of Klinghoffer - SFSU Design Class Project

From the elevated Captains bridge SR through the several deck levels to the red gangplank DSC, the curved backdrop, which transitions from the rusty plate steel hull SR to the huge translucent wave SL threatens to envelop the Achille Lauro and its passengers.

Othello

Designed for

SFSU Studio Theatre

2006

Billy Budd - MFA thesis presentation

Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd is presented on a cross-section of an armed Man-of-War as a metaphor for deck levels of class identity regulated by a rigid matrix of law and custom as the ship navigates through the fluid mediums of wind, waves and human reaction.

The suggestion of broken stone arches evokes a sense of Crete in days of Antiquity. Designed to be loaded in and out for every performance.

Lovers & Other Strangers

Designed for SFSU Little Theatre

2007 Spring Production

A farcical romp through human relationships in five New York apartments

Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio reinterpreted in terms of a post-apocalyptic world without oil where drug lords hold sway and dabble in human trafficking. Designed for the Berkeley Opera Company and staged at the Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkeley, CA

Model

Bird’s-Eye perspective view

THEATRE

Woyzek - SFSU Brown Bag Theatre 2006

The platform with the town houses rotates on a pin at the USR corner to reveal the country scene on the back.

Valpurgis Night

The Thieve’s Kitchen

Below: Oliver! - Marin Theatre Company - Summer Program 2007 -One of two shows. This set was based on four periaktoi. Each facet had a hinged panel that folded out allowing six scenes instead of three. Two reversible rolling window units raised the number of possible scenes to eight.

Performed at Mt. Tamelpais High School

London Bridge

The Three Cripples

Paddington Green

The Undertaker’s

The Workhouse

Faust’s Study - Finale

Scenes from Mephistopheles

SFSU Design Class Project

Designed with the Metropolitan Opera

in mind.

Prison

Albee - The American Dream

Stone Village Theatre - Jackson, MI

Shakespeare - The Tempest

Antioch Area Theatre -Yellow Springs, Ohio

Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Antioch Workshop Theatre

Weingarten - The Summer

Boldhus Teater - Copenhagen, Denmark

Pinter - The Caretaker

Antioch Workshop Theatre

For Mohamad Kowsar’s 2006 production of Buchner’s Danton’s Death I rigged the plumbing from the grid that spread dripping blood over the entire surface of this stage-wide guillotine blade that was lowered into view for the final scene