Amtrak to and from Boston

waiting on trains, as usual

Waiting on an Amtrak at New Haven Union Station

Theatre Wit's production of BURNING BLUEBEARD designed by Dan Broberg. I  attended this play back in January in Chicago.

from an exhibit in the Yale University Art Gallery. I regret to say I did not write down the artist's name, but he was a deceased Mexican propagandist. 

discarded ideas for Wendy Wasserstein's UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS 

refining ideas for play called GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES

showing caster options to the director of an upcoming production of GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES at Connecticut College

these are copied from a New Yorker cartoon. I lost the magazine on the subway and can't recall the cartoonist's name. My current drawing canvas is a recently discovered high school chemistry book.

rough sketch for my design of UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS for Atlantic Acting School.

The play takes place in a dorm at Mount Holyoke College in 1970. Oh, and the budget is a whopping $800

last night I saw POSTERITY at Atlantic Theater Company. Set design by Derek McLane

for a project in development called Port Cities NYC. Rough sketches to polished sketches

sketch of my design for BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY at Casa Manana in Fort Worth Texas. It goes up in May. I'm working on the color model this week.

rough subway sketch on used paper for an installation on a Red Hook pier. The project is called Port Cities NYC and will hopefully go up this fall.

My sketch from intermission at AN OCTOROON at Theatre for a New Audience. Wonderful set design by Mimi Lien: http://www.mimilien.com

sofas in a field. why? dunno.

some rough sketches from the tech table. These are some of Moria Clinton's costume designs for Peerless at Cherry Lane.

The top image is done on top an older sketch of a set for THE NUTCRACKER.

My final design for a play called PEERLESS that opened at Cherry Labe last night.

this week I'm working on the set design for BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY for a theatre called Casa Mañana in Fort Worth, Texas

some subway sketches of FUERZA BRUTA WAYRA. The creative/artistic director is Diqui James, and there's no specific designer listed on their website. The piece is spectacle at its finest.

some preliminary sketches for a play called GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES at Connecticut College.

these are my copies of a wonderful illustrator named Sarah Markes. She's based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her book about that city is called Street Level. The sketches are on top of old notes and working drawings.

My friends' baby is recovering from heart surgery, and another friend suggested I do a drawing for the parents. #prayerforwesley

Sitting in the dark at a tech table I like to sketch the people onstage. These sketches are done on top of old working drawings and punch lists.

My design for act 1 of Beth Henley's THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST at Muhlenberg College. It opens this weekend.

the next couple of days I'll be working in Kara Walker's studio to flesh out her design for Norma which she is directing and designing for La Fenice in Venice. This is my sketch of her A Subtlety: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby

studio setup for a documentary shoot that was cancelled

so for a hot second I was going to design a play that takes place in a church. The play got cancelled, but I sat in some church pews as research. Here are the

sketches from those site visits.

rough sketch to show my assistant at Connecticut College how to make a 20' tall Eiffel Tower out of Christmas lights and spare conduit. This was followed by real drafting but conveys most of the necessary information.