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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Marymount Manhattan College, 2015
Director: David Mold
Costume Designer: Brenda Birkeland and Molly Abraham
Lighting Designer: Meghan Mirsch
Set Designer: Alexandra Fry
Photographer: Susan Cook
Intended to be a piece of devised theatre, Pericles was designed based on the clothing that students wore to rehearsals. As an ensemble, they wore street clothes in a limited color palate. When they assumed principal roles, they added layers on top to indicate their characters and their relationship to other characters.
Director: Timothy Johnson
Costume Designer: Brenda Birkeland and Allyson Steele
Lighting Designer: Chris Steckel
Set Designer: Miguel Urbino
Photographer: Susan Cook
On Strivers Row is a period drama set in 1930s Harlem during a debutante party. The play centers around the relationships between several members of high society as well as their relationships with people of lower status and people with "new money". It was designed with a very small budget with many costumes pulled from actors' closets and other costumes rented from the New York Costume Collection.
Marymount Manhattan College, 2016
On Strivers Row
Werther Director: Crystal Manich
Turandot Director: Kathleen Clawson
Costume Designer: Brenda Birkeland
Photographer: Bobby Gutierrez
Each year, the Santa Fe Opera sets aside two nights to showcase the talent of their apprentice singers and technicians through a night of scenes from many operas. Pictured here are two designs from two scenes.
The first, Werther, was set in the 1780s and focused on the forbidden love between the poet Werther and Charlotte, a newly married woman kept prisoner by her husband. This scene shows the first time Charlotte and Werther interact after she marries another man.
The second, Turandot, was set in China in fantasy times and focused on Ping, Pang, and Pong, three ministers to Princess Turandot. In the scene, the three ministers lament about their life in the palace because Turandot refuses to marry any man who cannot answer her riddle, forcing Ping, Pang, and Pong to kill them when they answer incorrectly.