Stage & Set Design

The first thing the audience sees is not the set. It is not the lighting cue you labored over at midnight. It is a figure moving across the threshold, cloth…

A narrow alley stretches away from you under a single streetlamp. Cobblestones glisten. Windows lean in overhead. You could swear it runs on for fifty feet. Then the work light…

The panel stands under a single work light, tall and flat and utterly unremarkable. Raw cardboard. Soft edges. Those familiar corrugation lines glowing through the thin brown skin. Then the…

A sheet of plywood leans against the wall, its surface scratched with stories from shows past. Faint outlines of painted bricks, a ghost of a window frame, tape marks from…

The air is humming before anyone moves. Empty studio. Pale light on mirrors. The faint smell of resin and sweat soaked into wood. Then the first step lands. A heel,…

The wall stares back at you. Flat. Lifeless. A sheet of dull color catching the work lights in a way that makes everything feel unfinished, like a rehearsal that never…

The house lights sink, and the stage floor becomes a black ocean. Feet hover, then land. A heel strikes, and the sound either blooms like a drum or dies like…

The first thing you notice is not the actor. It is the wall behind them. Cracked limestone, cool and heavy, swallowing the stage lights instead of throwing them back. You…

The floor groans first. Before the lights warm up, before the audience coughs and settles, there is that quiet creak under a technician's boot, a muffled thud as a flight…