PRops is Tops
Props Coordinator, Artisan, Carpenter and Shopper
Props work, for me, is the ultimate trouble shooting experience. A puzzle that's challenging every day, and never the same twice. From designing and creating edible blood capsules, to rigging a guitar to fall out of a locker unprovoked, Props work has always been the most rewarding theater work I've done. It's so much more than moving furniture and sweeping the stage; it's creating the possible from near impossible parameters.
Broadway Prop Work
Note: Please excuse the poor photo quality. Many of the below prop projects were done during tech where time is at a premium and only on-the-fly photos are convenient.
Props and Special Effects Artisan for "King Lear" on Broadway, James Earl Jones Theater (Previously the Cort Theater)
- Assist in prop crafting and co-construction of special effects
- Including: Blood "Squib", "Eye gouge effect," blood pack design and construction, etc.
- Operate as Deck Props during entirety of Broadway run.
Other Prop work
Arkansas Shakespeare Theater Production shots
With the Arkansas Shakespeare Theater as Props Master I was coordinating 4 shows simultaneously and teching a new show almost every week. Below are construction/craft images as well as production photos:
Arkansas Shakespeare Theater Progress Photos
Work on Broadway and National Tours
Prop work from Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company: Fiddler on the Roof Craft
Paper Props; Never The Same Prop Twice
While I have always had an interest in photo shopping, and digital editing, my summer at Barrinton Stage Company really put that to the test. Several of the shows were incredibly paper props heavy and required an incredibly detail oriented hand and eye to complete them. Below are examples of some pf the pieces of work from that summer. Specifically there are two news papers, and a transcript. The news papers look completely different, but are both from the fall of 1947. One however is based from references of British newspapers of the time and was edited together from several sources (pictured Left), while the other 5 section Sunday paper was created from little geographically accurate sources due to Western Ohio having very few Newspaper archives from the late 40's specifically of Sunday newspapers. Also the change in pigment used in newsprint through the ages and the desired of the director, each individual comic in the comics section needed to be hand edited to compensate for the pink pigment common to the time, to get it to the desired greyish tone of the present news print. And the Transcript, is just not a newspaper, and another example an over detailed paper prop from the summer. There were 4 different transcripts in this show each from a different country.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Floral assembly process
