UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

I was able to go a bit further on the Sketchup Rendering of Animal Farm. As soon as Dancescapes moves into performances, we will begin the build.

And now that “Putnam County” is done, I can get the drawing for Animal Farm done (though Dancescapes is the next production):

We’re getting closer to the hang for “Public Enemy” (directed by guest director Mary MacDonald Kerr, with guest lighting designer Aimee Hanyzewski), and the platforming is getting moved into place. Last night, we had a designer run of the show, so it was important to give the actors the final platform positions.

I believe this is TA Katie working with one of the Intro to Theatre students on attaching masonite to the next to last platform:

And view of the work from the house:

Then it’s back to the office for me, and finishing up the elevation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

Now that “Public Enemy” is in the shop (with platforming getting built on stage at this very moment), I’ve been working away on “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which is the musical slated for February. After meeting with the director this past weekend, we firmed up scenic decisions and are going with this:

That means I get to work up the groundplan this afternoon!

Today, working on the portable pieces of “On the Verge.” The director, Angela Iannone, would like the pieces to be made of cardboard — heightened artificiality, the sense of it as a prop — and they need to come on and off easily, through the portals on either side of the stage, and carried by, at most, a single actor.

Here are sketches for the palanquin and the Esso pump:

Another day working on ‘On the Verge” drawings. Finished drafting the header and spent some time working up a contour mapped model of the sandpile feature:

I believe all the plates of drafting are now done. Have to double check things, do some prop drawings, and then next week, scan it all.

The Fall semester is fast approaching. I discovered as I was working up the Sketchup model of “On the Verge” that I had failed to take into account the 9″ clearance required for the wall mirror covers along one wall of the theatre, and am now in the process of redrafting the show. Here’s the elevation on the drafting table:

Steve Chene, our department’s technical director for many, many years, retired this year, so this Fall we will be welcoming Ruth Conrad-Proulx as our new TD! I told her I would turn over a complete set of drawings for Verge next week, so I must draft, draft, draft away. . .

It’s getting close to the end of the day, and I’ve got the white virtual model of “The Tangled Skirt” done.

The furniture and human figure are from the SketchUp 3D warehouse, and so not my work.

Partway done with the monochrome 3D model of ‘The Tangled Skirt.”

Focus starts today, with student Joe Berman as the lighting designer. Here’s a shot from earlier in the week, with Intro to Tech students in the Hicklin working the hang:

Here, facing is being applied to the platforming. I painted on linoleum strips so we could easily wrap around curves.

I also spent time in my office working on “On the Verge” drawings. Here’s the elevation:

And this morning started working on detail plates for “The Tangled Skirt:”