stage management
Nora: A Doll's House
Shenandoah University | Virginia | 2022
DIRECTOR, Carolyn Coulson
SCENIC DESIGNER, James Raymond
LIGHTING DESIGNER, Myka Altman
COSTUME DESIGNER, Azaria Rubio
SOUND DESIGNER, Anna Alex
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER, Gavin Sexton
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER, Olivia Gordon and Victoria Kolbelka
Show description: Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.
Henrik Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?
The Last Five Years
Shenandoah University | Virginia | 2021
DIRECTOR, Kevin Covert
SCENIC DESIGNER, Bill Peirson and Angela Menoyo
LIGHTING DESIGNER, Andrew Carson
COSTUME DESIGNER,
SOUND DESIGNER, Dave Steinman
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER, Gavin Sexton
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (Rehearsal), Jade Harkema
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (Performance), Brianna Lincks
Show description: The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate tale of two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show. This production will feature two different casts.