I will graduate in May 2013 with my MFA in Production Technology & Management. What follows are some plates and production photos of just a few of the productions I had a large hand in getting to the stage.
(All production photos by Louis Stein)
Spelling Bee
Draftsman - (Spring, 2011)
(design by John Zuiker)
I've drafted a lot throughout my career, of course, but before coming to graduate school I'd never done any CAD drafting; these drawings for Spelling Bee are particularly significant as they're some of the first I'd produced in AutoCAD.
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| Those pillars in the background were fabric kabuki drops triggered to fall & then release entirely in a different moment. |
Still Life with Iris:
Job Lead - (Spring, 2011)
(scene design by Lauren Mills)
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| The vast majority of this show was fabric, always interesting and a challenge to work with alternative scenic materials. |
Suor Angellica/Mahagonny
Job Lead - (Fall, 2011)
(scene design by Jessica Emerson)
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Six layers of 2" bead board foam to reproduce the
gothic architecture; carving involved CNC, a router, hand-carving, and an attempt at custom shaper bits chucked into a drill press. |
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| There wasn't much to this set except a wall; The biggest element (for us) is the hardest to see in the photo; namely, the running water in the shower & the sink U/S of the wall. I hate that I don't have more good photos |
Les Enfants Terrible
Job Lead - (Spring, 2012)
(scene design by Isabella Scannone)
Sweeney Todd
Draftsman - (Spring, 2012)
(scenic design by Brandon McNeel)
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| Machine design! With counterweight! |
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| The Oven Door in action (actor-vated) |
Bus Stop
Draftsman - (Spring, 2012)
(scene design by Josh Smith)
Though I wasn't Job Lead on this show, I had a heavy hand in tech design of two of the major scenic elements; namely, the bus and the floating ceilings. The designer wanted to make final decisions regarding the distressing of the bus in full scale on the piece itself, so we ended up building an almost full element. Bending lauan covered the inside and sheet metal covered the outside.
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| One of the construction draftings I produced for this piece |
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| Double Layers of 3/4" ply half-lapped to for the framing... |
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| That we then distressed the crap out of it. |
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| Construction Drafting produced by me for the front portions of the Bus |
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| Layered foam for the front cap of the driver's cab |
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| I did the carving myself, all by hand. For the astute observer, that's a compound curve on the corners - because of that, it made more sense to us to carve foam instead of sheet metal. |
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| Install drawing for the Floating Ceilings (one of my first forays into 3D, btw) |
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| One production shot |
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| and another |
The Rivals
(Job Lead - Fall, 2012)
(scene design by Helen Jun)
The Rivals was one of the last shows I would work on directly before I worked as Project Manager for the School of Drama. Scenery was fairly straightforward - two curving translucent walls were the main pieces - but what excited me was our incorporation of lashing cleats in putting the flats together. Helen wanted the framing to be as minimal as possible and because the translucent, digitally-printed material was wrapped around 3 of the 4 walls of the steel framing, we couldn't use bolts. "Olde Schoole" seemed to us to make the most sense.
Romeo & Juliet
Even in the midst of writing my thesis I still have obligations to the shop and Carnegie Scenic and managed to do some minor technical design during the end of my last semester. This plate is a basic escape platform except that, because of openings in its facing flat, it had to cantilever at one end so no support legs would be seen. This is the last drawing I produced as a graduate student. In terms of layout and information, I've been tooling and attempting to "perfect" my drawings for the past three years. This plate is far from perfect, but it's one of my best to date.
Load-in took ninety minutes.
I am not exaggerating.
Romeo & Juliet
(Draftsman - Spring, 2013)
(scene design by Jess Emerson)
Even in the midst of writing my thesis I still have obligations to the shop and Carnegie Scenic and managed to do some minor technical design during the end of my last semester. This plate is a basic escape platform except that, because of openings in its facing flat, it had to cantilever at one end so no support legs would be seen. This is the last drawing I produced as a graduate student. In terms of layout and information, I've been tooling and attempting to "perfect" my drawings for the past three years. This plate is far from perfect, but it's one of my best to date.
