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Below you will find a list of shows that are represented in this portfolio. Most images are production pictures, but some include concept art, plans, renderings etc. Plans are stored as a .PDF (Adobe Acrobat™) file. They are reduced versions of the full-size drawing.

• City Dance, Spring 2011

  For Fresno City College's annual dance concert Jimmy Hao envisioned a concert that would showcase dance from around the world. (Full Details)

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• 36 Views

  Naomi Iizuka's play of 36 scenes examines an Asian Art dealer of questionable morals and two assistants who attempt to con him. Charles Erven directed this production for Fresno City College. (Full Details)

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• The Exonerated

  Janine Christl brought to life this moving play based on interviews and court transcripts of people wrongly sentenced to death row. (Full Details)

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• Grasmere

  Grasmere examines the life of William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as they struggle with life, love, and poetry. (Full Details)

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• Eurydice

  Sarah Ruhl's update and adaptation of the classic story keeps the basic plot, but concentrates on Eurydice's feelings and emotions in the underworld. (Full Details)

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• A Flea in Her Ear

  Debra Shapazian brought Georges Feydeau's play to raucous life in this very pink production at Fresno City College. (Full Details)

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• Jack Goes Boating

  Robert Glaudini's play, directed by Charles Erven, has locations from a New York apartment, to the subway, to a swimming pool. The simple unit set, in a small black box theatre, relied on the lighting to establish many of the locations. (Full Details)

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• The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde's classic play was envisioned with open iron work to create a light and airy feel in this Fresno City College production directed by Janine Christl. (Full Details)

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• The Altruists

  Nicki Silver's play examines the morality of several self-centered New Yorkers and their inconvenient love lives. (Full Details)

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• Reckless

  Brad Myers's production of Craig Lucas' Reckless was inspired by the action of a perfect life being torn apart and left as merely a shell of its former glory. (Full Details)

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• Handler

  Robert Schenkkan set his play in the rural South in a church that still practices snake handling. After being bitten, one adherent goes on a strange series of adventures questioning the nature of love, life, and religion. (Full Details)

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• Crimes of the Heart

  Beth Henley's classic American play, as directed by Dr. Michael Swanson, demanded something unusual for me as a designer: realism in a small, 80-seat, black box theatre. (Full Details)

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• Canyon Suite

  This premiere production of Charles Erven's play, directed by Brad Myers, was invited to the American College Theatre Festival's regional conference. (Full Details)

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• Anna in the Tropics

  Nilo Cruz's play was my first production at Fresno City College. As the lector reads Tolstoy to the workers, their minds break free of the factory and roam the world. (Full Details)

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• Alice Dancing Through the Looking Glass

  This dance concert was based on the classic story, Alice in Wonderland. (Full Details)

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• Beyondo

  This setch comedy show was performed at the Lillian Theatre complex in Hollywood CA. (Full Details)

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• MIrror Mirror

  Playwrites Richard Alger, Tina Kronis, and Debbie Devine created a new version of Snow White. (Full Details)

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• Choreography on Canvas

  With each dance inspired by art, the designers and the choreographers faced a unique series of challenges. (Full Details)

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• U.S.C. School of Theatre Graduation 2003

  Set Designer Jason Cohen mixed oversized temple bells and window shades in a mid-air installation. I took this stark sculpture as a multilayer form to light. (Full Details)

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• U.S.C. School of Theatre Graduation 2002

  The concept of this special event was a peacful garden, leading into a new world. (Full Details)

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• The Rocky Horror Show

  This show involved alumni of the U.S.C. School of Theatre. (Full Details)

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• Olympus On My Mind

  Olympus On My Mind concerns a modern play of a Greek myth where everything goes wrong. (Full Details)

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• The Illusion

  Sabin Epstein's concept of Tony Kushner's play was that the illumination of the cave would illustrate the internal life of each moment in the story. (Full Details)

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• Divinely Inspired

  This dance concert, based on a religious theme, had pieces ranging from an exploration of man's innermost fears to the search for inner joy. (Full Details)

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• Bodies in Motion

  Varying from inner-city tap to modern to jazz to classical ballet, this concert required the lighting to change mood and focus for each of the dances. (Full Details)

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• Art in Motion

  Creating the lighting for a stop-motion animation T.V. commercial provided the interesting challenge of not knowing exactly what the finished product would look like until the film was developed. (Full Details)

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• The Boy Friend

  Director John Blankenchip assigned me the task of recreating the lighting style of 1920's musical theatre with contemporary instruments. (Full Details)

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• Encore '97

  This musical revue was one of four shows which played in rotating rep on the Showboat Becky Thatcher in Ohio. (Full Details)

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