Set Design

Letters To Sala

Creating a Memorial

It was very important for me and my co-designers when designing this show to make sure that every element down to the paint colors meant something. Letters to Sala is a true story about a young girl named Sala who is put into Nazi Labor camps. We used real holocaust memorials as inspiration for things like the big stones and the shape of the set. The brick hallways were meant to represent the separation hallways at the labor camps. The black bricks represented the ever looming gate entrances to these horrifying places. We painted the floors muddy to let the audience walk the floors of our characters world.We wanted the audience to feel uncomfortable from the second the walked in.

Letters to Sala Mood Board

From Black Box to Stage

We had the incredible opportunity to bring this show to more people by winning the CETA festival (California Educational Theatre Association). This gave us the opportunity to bring this show from the close up, black box floor, to a Stage with over 1000 people watching. Even from far away, we made sure that the impact would remain the same by adding extra details to read better from far away, and wrapping our black brick walls around the proscenium of the theater.

Letters To Sala Photos

Cinderella Horses

Possible and Impossible

Along with PSM'ing this show, I was also asked to help make all the horses for the show. Buttercup (The Horse pictured on the photo on the right) was made out of a chicken wire base, and covered in an off white fabric and foam armor with yarn hair. The head was placed on a platform base made by our set team and then covered with an old blue curtain. The magic horses (pictured left) were made fully of chicken wire, and wrapped in a swirl pattern with iridescent fabric and string lights to make them look like they were conjured from the magic of fairy godmother. The horses took 4 weeks to build and are some of my favorite things I have ever made.