N°16
Hello hello Folks!
It’s wild to me that April is almost over. This month, I return to my roots….. theatre!
Yours truly will be doing the scenic design for an original play in this years Hollywood Fringe Festival!
“When an entitled LA talent agent and his anxious Gen-Z assistant are forced out to sea to save their top-billing client from a wardrobe catastrophe, they’re forced to take a look at the boiling frustrations beneath their workplace relationship. ”
During my first meeting with the director, they showed me a pinterest board of nautical, Newport-inspired research.
As a part of the Fringe Festival, there are certain restrictions the set design has to follow…
The most important requirement is that all scenery must be entirely loaded-in and struck in only 15 minutes!
As well as the 15 minute load-in limit, we’re also working with next to no budget… but that’s never discouraged me before!
The director included images of vintage trunks in her vision board which dramatically inspired my research
We decided that vintage trunks would be the gesture or language for the “bones” of the boat…… which sent me in two different directions of research…
COLOR BLOCK CONTEMPORARY
ABSTRACT REALISM
I love the way that theatre often forces designers to think abstractly and gesturally
Ultimately the director and I wanted to go in the direction of color blocking. It felt right within our farse.
EVER SO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RENDERINGS TO HELP FINALIZE THE COLOR AND PAINT TREATMENT OF THE DESIGN:
