Theatrical Design
35mm
By Ryan Oliver Scott
Melodramatics Theatre Company
Cornell University's Risley theatre
Designed, drafted and constructed.
35mm is a song cycle, each song was inspired by a photograph that is projected during each performance. Drawing from the idea that this music concept grew out of photograph I researched the medium and was drawn to the aesthetic of film negatives, I used that to create framing for the projected images. I paired that with dynamic, tiered platforming that allows for an array of choreography and blocking for the performers.
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Cornell University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' Black Box Theatre
Designed and constructed. A staging of Reza's play in the round mean to appear as if a living room was ripped out of a house, floor boards and all, and set down in a audience surrounded boxing ring.
The Heiress
By Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Cornell University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' Kiplinger Theatre
A design concept for The Heiress, with full technical plates and renderings.
With the play set in the first half of the 19th century this was an exploration in period décor and architecture. I took inspiration from Georgian rooms of the same period represented in the Thorne Miniature Rooms collection on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Playtime
By Jacques Tati
Cornell University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' Kiplinger Theatre
Design Concept for a stage adaptation of Jacques Tati's 1967 film "Playtime". The design pulls from the films imagery and allows for set changing between different scenes.