SENIOR CAPSTONE: TECHNICAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
As part of my Senior Capstone in high school, I served as the spring play’s production manager and designer and led the student production crew. There are two main parts to my Capstone: design and management. I produced well-informed designs that utilized the elements and principles of design, portrayed the settings, and conveyed the themes of the play. As the production manager, I oversaw the entire crew by allocating projects to individuals and assisting students to execute my designs. I also worked closely with other departments on campus to source materials and furniture pieces.
Silent Sky is a play that engages with its time period, spanning from 1900-1920. Much of the design is informed by extensive historical research of the computer room, Harvard observatory, and furniture style. Small details such as the curvature on the
furniture legs, rusty handles on storage boxes, vintage style hearing aid, and intricate dust cover on the piano help place the show and the audience in its corresponding time period.
The set is kept minimal and largely immobile on the stage while actors travel to different areas to convey different settings. This establishes an airiness, keeps the transitions swift, and
leaves space for more abstract scenes set in space and time.
This production is unlike any other production in Chiles Theater because of its use of the scrim and projections. The black scrim creates a feeling of intimacy with its dark color, limiting the audience’s vision and blocking out distractions. Moreover, when images are projected onto the scrim, a dreamy, filter-like, far-away feeling is created. The projections eventually extend into the house, inviting the audience into the
vastness of the universe.
furniture legs, rusty handles on storage boxes, vintage style hearing aid, and intricate dust cover on the piano help place the show and the audience in its corresponding time period.
The set is kept minimal and largely immobile on the stage while actors travel to different areas to convey different settings. This establishes an airiness, keeps the transitions swift, and
leaves space for more abstract scenes set in space and time.
This production is unlike any other production in Chiles Theater because of its use of the scrim and projections. The black scrim creates a feeling of intimacy with its dark color, limiting the audience’s vision and blocking out distractions. Moreover, when images are projected onto the scrim, a dreamy, filter-like, far-away feeling is created. The projections eventually extend into the house, inviting the audience into the
vastness of the universe.
SILENT SKY
Lauren Gunderson
Lois C. Chiles Theater, Northfield Mount Hermon School
Director: Jared Eberlein
Lighting Designer: Claude Wei Zhang
Scenic Designer: Claude Wei Zhang
Technical Director: Emily Salfity
Costume Designer: Jazmine Carroll
Hair and Makeup Designer: Aspen Coleman
Photographers: Matthew Cavanaugh
Lighting Designer: Claude Wei Zhang
Scenic Designer: Claude Wei Zhang
Technical Director: Emily Salfity
Costume Designer: Jazmine Carroll
Hair and Makeup Designer: Aspen Coleman
Photographers: Matthew Cavanaugh
