Projections Design

The City and the Sea

Theatre 33, August 2025

The City and the Sea is a new musical written by Paul Lewis. It is set in and around the city of Astoria, Oregon in 1973 with significant flashbacks to 1947. It has a few magical moments as the two time periods converge. Rob Ceballos, the director, asked me to incorporate a handful of images into my lighting design. After some discussions with the artistic team, projections seemed to be a strong solution. The majority of the design is in support of location which needed to be built to conform to Lewis’ description of Astoria. The other aspects of the design were meant to support the emotional (dis)connections between the characters and time periods.

Twelfth Night

Willamette University Theatre, April 2022

When the scenic designer, Yvonne Miranda, approached us with the idea of adding projections to the design, I was intrigued. I immediately thought of Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories opening image and Miranda gave me a huge canvas to work with on this project - it was a spectacle in itself. The opening storm became the foundation for the image vocabulary but as Malvolia shifted to madness, I also made a shift in image making. I worked with an amazing assistant designer, Caerwyn Nelson, who designed the Duke’s salon.

bobrauschenbergamerica

Willamette University Theatre, September 2016

bobrauschenbergamerica is a lovestory to and about the United States. Using the work of artist Robert Rauschenberg as our inspiration, the performance becomes a collage - a collombine - of Americana, American, America. The sound design is a tapestry of US composers, musicians, and atmospheres. Boundaries of high and popular art collide with the romantic, nostalgic, the patriotic, the urban, and the rural. The design highlights great American photographers in collage that supports, adds tension, and offers multiple perspectives of the moments emphasized in the scenes.

Maresfield Gardens

Theatre 33, August 2016

Maresfield Gardens is a solo performance written and performed by Susan Coromel. Alone in Anna Freud’s consulting room, a woman comes to terms with her life in the shadows. Born into the Tiffany family fortune, Mary “Mabbie” Burlingham searches for the reasons that have driven her back to her Mother’s home shared with Anna Freud. Maresfield Gardens. The sound design highlights Mabbie's memories and supports the rhythm and layered texture of Mabbie's state-of-mind. The projections design was developed from a mimiograph of a children's book written and drawn by Mabbie. The design animates the book and at the end of the production, destroys the book.