Probably the most complex crafts project on The Little Prince was the Fox macropuppet ( Read more... )

Recall if you will back in October when i posted the first installment about the development and creation of the masks for our next mainstage show, The Little Prince. Since we open on Saturday and there are costume renderings of some of the characters up on the official site, i think it's ok for me to post a follow-up ( Read more... )

We've begun production on The Little Prince, perhaps the most crafts-heavy show of the season. It features tons of masks, hats, and other crazy stuff (as you would expect, given that you have characters playing flowers and animals ( Read more... )

I've mentioned in previous posts that this semester's graduate crafts course is on masks and armor. As we roll up into Fall Break, they're finishing up the section on masks, which culminates in a project i call "Complex Masks." The mask they chose for this project had to have some engineering issue involved in its construction. For example, one ( Read more... )

I thought i was done talking about Romeo and Juliet. After all, the show closes this weekend, and i've moved on to working on our next two shows, Crimes of the Heart and The Little Prince. However! Amanda Phillips, the draper who made the Lady Capulet gown and overdress that i ombre-dyed, got some lovely photographs of the effect, which I mentioned ( Read more... )

In addition to the silk yardage painting discussed in a post a few days ago, there were quite a few craftwork projects in the current production of Romeo and Juliet, running through October 14th at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC.

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Tonight is the first preview performance of our first mainstage show, Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. I'm super excited about the design of this show, and can't wait for the pictures to come back from photo call so i can do a more comprehensive overview post on all the fun craftwork (like this one on last season's closer The IllusionHowever, i've ( Read more... )

In the spring, i oversaw an independent study course in theatrical footwear topics. My student, Grier Coleman, recently turned in all of her research and projects, and i thought i'd share with the readership her final project, which was to make a pair of "blue-footed booby feet."

This image was one of the primary research images Grier used, a ( Read more... )

Today my maskmaking class completed their first project, which was to make polymer clay maquettes ( Read more... )

I know, i have slacked on the second half of the Bryner millinery text. It's on my laptop at home and i am now at work, my contract having commenced today, so rest assured that it is coming, next time i haul my laptop somewheres that has wireless ( Read more... )