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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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