Design
Designs reflect my collaborative spirit and foundations in theatre as a visual artist bringing a unique creative perspective to every design
Eurydice
Corsets and crinolines were repurposed from previous productions.
Big Stone’s costume featured a layered, rigged skirt designed into her “perch” atop a ladder to enhance her size. Little Stone’s costume was snug, mimicking a child who had almost outgrown their clothing. Loud Stone’s eccentric nature was enhanced by her voluminous skirt and wig.
Spray paint was used to create varying levels of gray.
Each design was specifically created to reflect their living selves as they increasingly lose individuality in death.
The student designer practiced multiple methods for turning the stones gray. We experimented with spray bottles, manual application, and brushes.
Student Makeup Design Advisement
She chose an air brush machine and used a stencil to achieve the stone texture, and then hand painted the highlights with a detail brush.
She hand-mixed 3 different shades of gray from Mehron’s body paint line.
The Stones Final Look:
The final product.
The actors remained on their perches for the entirety of the show.
Texture of the stones was achieved by hand painting sawdust into the contours of the corset. The garments were then sanded to ensure comfort for actors.
She completed research, renderings, and a live application and modeling of her makeup design for the college’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Little Stone’s designed pieces including painted grey socks.
I served as a guide, teacher, and mentor for her designs. We worked together to find inspiration and methods for application. She submitted renderings for approval at varying points of the process. Then completed the application process independently for the duration of the show.
Directed by Kim Barber Knoll and Ellie Boykin at LaGrange College
April 2025
I designed and constructed the costumes and wigs for The Stones in Eurydice using up cycled materials and helped arrange the hanging scenery that framed them in collaboration with Technical Director, Luke Hopper.
In addition to mentoring a student designer on her makeup design of Little Stone, Big Stone, and Loud Stone and advised her during the submission and presentation process of the LaGrange College Undergraduate Research Symposium.
The Design:
The stones were inspired by Degas’ ballerinas and the image above.
The Process:
The Wizard of Oz
Directed by Kim Barber Knoll at LaGrange College
October 2024
I designed the witch’s makeup and taught the actress how to apply it and painted and constructed tree costumes sustainably by using up-cycled materials.
Visual Art
My strengths of painting, sketching, composition, and color theory are realized in
the design and construction of costumes, makeup, wigs, props, and scenery for full-scale productions.
Images below include:
Realized set designs for the scenery of Eurydice, specifically the composition of the elements framing the stage
The scenic painting process and final scenic design for The Lottery.
Also included is the prop design of the witch’s time turner for Wizard of Oz and the Weird Sisters makeup and costumes for a staging of Macbeth’s Witches Scenes.
