Today we went to look at the location where we will be filming. I’ve seen photos, but this was my first time on site. One of the goals while there was to get measurements so I could finish the set design. I’d done a very rough sketch prior to this, but that didn’t mean it […]
Hannah and the Hollow Challah is supposed to open tomorrow, but there’s this slight question of where. Apparently work on the theater means that the building will be closed tomorrow. We just found out yesterday that it might happen and today found out that it will happen. Thank heavens I built a touring set, eh?
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One of the projects I’m working on is the set design for a new play called “Hannah and the Hollow Challah.” It takes place in Hannah’s home and then she is whisked off to Breadland by the opera singing Hollow Challah. Once there, she encounters a bajillion characters and goes to a half-dozen scenic locations.
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I took the train up to Princeton to deliver the set model to McCarter theater’s education department. For this project, I needed to come up with a single set that could work for eight different plays. After our last meeting, the next step was to create a set model. Since each play has a different
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I’ve been doing scenic design work for a couple of years for McCarter Theater’s education department. It’s work that I enjoy because it combines the dual challenge of making a design that fits a shows aesthetic as well as one that will tour. The current project is for their First Stages Company. It’s not a
This is beautifully animated, but there’s one detail which makes me go a little buggy. Watch the baby’s eyes. They are so real, compared to the rest of the figure, that it edges into the uncanny valley. This is a problem that crops up in a lot of different forms of world creation, from set
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This article from the covers the production of Arabian Nights for which I did the set design.
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I’ve been working on Arabian Nights design around helping out with Shimmer and am pretty pleased with what I’m doing, if I do say so myself. We’ll see what Chris and Emily say when they see the drawings.