Painting of an early 20th century playwright.

Recording music in the Roxy Grove Music Hall. Incredible.

Another Waco sky.

Men I love making movies. James, Matt, Taylor, BK, Daniel, and there was Sky and Kelly.

Adrienne has a secret.

This is adrienne's design and the build for Urinetown. The silhouette was provided by sam hough.

Reading group. This was our Lorca night. We wrote it with water because it is symbolic!

Judas Feet. Diana read, Tommy Read, Cody Green. The picture doesn't include Hannah, Tron, or Paul.

Summer show of 'Brilliant Traces,' which was a great production and really lovely design.

Paul playing through a rose glass.

David

I’ve got three smooth stones aimed at your head
And I would be much better off if you were dead
I’ve got a book of the bible named after me
So please stay away, I have enough trouble facing my humanity

so die, my dream,
so die, my dream,
so die, my dream,
because that’s what you are too me.

I went into the water to lose your scent,
I check the mail for words to repent.
But I'm having trouble fighting something that's
heaven sent.

I walked on the edges of your land,
And I lost the feeling of your hand.
I know it's a lot to demand
But I thought that you'd understand.

I've got three smooth stones left on the ground,
and I don't know what to do with this sound,
And I don't know where I will be found,
But I know you'll be around...

So Fly, my love
So Fly, my love
So Fly, my love,
to find rest from me above.

Newer Things

Whoa. long time, no me.

Sorry world.

Here are more lovelies...

Camren working on a brilliant turban as part of his costume final. beauty.

ah... Taylor Rudd resetting his camera. Honestly, an artist. the artist.

Grace, Daniel, Reid, Matt, & Mallory. I met with them one day when I ventured out from the theatre. It is strange how people remain. How they remain your friends, how they remain their own friends. I don't know. I feel sometimes that I am only slightly related to the world - only slightly, so when I reconnect, it is the manner of a family reunion, with every person growing up, more into their own person.

I am so young.

shoes.

this is a blouse that I drafted and built for our latest show. I was quite thrilled by it.

colby. Check out his band James Callihan.

this is our new trapeze. Thanks to melissa and kristin. this is the almond shape.

this is me carrying melissa with my feet! haha...

This! This is my final for set design, a model for Macbeth.

I wanted to design a highly versatile space with dynamic geometric form.
Also, I wanted it to be a nightmare. I think Macbeth is a nightmare. It is the story of men completely destroying themselves for what they believe to be true. But it is something disastrously different. Anyways, let me know if you have any questions.

Peter saw a death that day,
Thought it suited a eulogy,
Swore to cry, and swore to sigh,
Swore to mourn a love that dies.

Recently Me

Ward. Discussion over an article on Beckett.

My Mother on a walk with musical giants.

Breakfast on a cute yellow table.

Painting party. It really was a brilliant time. Can you count all of the circles?

A bridge over a bridge. Can you count all of the vanishing points in this picture?

One of Nature's Ninjas.

Adrienne's make-up for my part in Krapp's Last Tape.

Easter Sunday at the Donaldson's. I couldn't have hoped for a better day. Thank you.

Haha... the pile of fun. Toni's friend Rachel (far right) was visiting from Nashville. And they made their friend AK keep company. It was a perfect picnic.

vie

I sat at various pianos singing in to plastic cups about eulogies.

hoo-rah!

It was lovely - almost like singing inside a christmas light. shimmering.

It rained like hell today. Lots of water. Made me want to swim. mmm...


Jeff making a much larger version of the chess piece on the bottom right. Head in transit.

Dress in window. My director Chris' Saturn in the reflection.

Bewitching eyes in this book.

oh well, oh well,
no one knew the words to say
so wild, so wild,
no one knew the words to say
it’s the world, the world
no one knew the words to say.

sweet rest.

tunes!

At last!

We finished our production of 'Bye Bye Birdie!' today, and I feel we had a wonderful run for it. I think our audiences enjoyed themselves. And now, in that show's wake, I have a great number of projects to shift my focus towards. Which is wonderful.

1. David Mamet's American Buffalo
2. Mark Howard Medoff's Children of a Lesser God
3. Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
4. Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Oh, sleep. sleep. come, come to me...

Just trying to stop thinking so much...

Here are some recent shots... enjoy!


Sam and I getting sandwiches after a matinee. I think. We ate sometime...

He is the best. A performer. An artist. Please refer to the bearded man with a turban in an earlier post.


The scene shop during set strike.


Roomate Jeff. Brilliant man and artist. I must say he looks quite handsome in his jacket... and in front of the piano...


Roomate Holden. Not a flattering shot. But the moment was too wonderful not to commemorate. yay. sorry Holden. Also, I was borrowing glasses. But they were so fun.


The beautiful James and Kristin dancing. aaah.... so good. Thank God for friendship.

So. Late nights again. The weather is perfect. close to it at least.

You are never too good.
You are never too bad.
It will remain for you and I. All of you. All of me.

ciao. blessed rest.

Merchant of Venice

Directed and designed by Lindsey Christian.

It was a very enjoyable process; Christian has a very good sense of honesty in her work. And in playing Shylock, I was always hungry for more change in the character. He was so interesting to explore.

le Palais Royale. Built 1641. Recreated 2008.

my little, thriving theatre,
I made you out of wood.
I gave you little scenery,
and all the care I could.

I put a big black curtain
behind the painted set.
You are the dearest theatre,
I can say I ever met.

New Designs. Set design class.

Rendering of a cities' deep-set corridor.

The following is a model I designed to exhibit certain qualities offered by our professor that we picked from. I chose seductive, sleek, and opposing. Then we lit it.

Texas - from Sam to infinity.

Tendernest.

Texas. Tyna, this is what you are missing!!

Late night run to wal-mart. I got distracted by the bike section. Big surprise there.