Costume Design Presentations
During the pandemic, I found slide presentations to be a valuable form of communication across time and space, in person or digital. They also clearly show my sense of process, from research and color inspiration to colorwork and design.
American Mariachi | Play with Music
Family, love, and tradition are at the core of this heartwarming play about the freedom to dream big. It’s the 1970’s and girls can’t be mariachis… or can they? As Lucha and her spunky cousin hunt for bandmates, dodge disapproving relatives, and bring Mom along for the ride. This play is infused with vibrant, infectious live mariachi music and reminds us how music and love can make the impossible come true.
Party People | Musical
A kinetic mix of poetry, jazz, blues, hip-hop, boleros, salsa, and storytelling based on interviews with members of the Black Panther Party and Young Lords Organization. Party People is a dynamic musical that illuminates the complex legacy of these revolutionary movements, and the potential for cross-cultural coalitions to bring power to the people.
El Otro Oz | Musical
A Mexican musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. As her fifteenth birthday approaches, Dora, a contemporary, Latiné teenager, struggles with her family’s idea about tradition and dreads her impending quinceañera. But, when Dora gets swept away to a strange new land, she learns how to celebrate her unique rhythm and embrace her cultural identity.
Anna in the Tropics | Play
In 1929, a handsome lector arrives at one of the last Cuban cigar factories in Tampa to entertain the workers while they hand-roll cigars. But when the lector begins reading Anna Karenina, the passionate, frustrated lives of the characters in the book begin to parallel those of the listeners, leading to jealousy, betrayal and sexual awakening.
Facing Forward | Dance
Designs for three works to be presented at the annual Dance Department performance. While three different pieces by three different choreographers, each has included a visual mathematical element in the design.
Rise for Freedom | Opera
An opera based on John Parker, an African American abolitionist, inventor, iron molder, industrialist, and conductor on the underground railroad who helped hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. This production will mark the first opera by a Black composer to be produced by university productions.
The Seventeenth Chapel | Play
A sci-fi work where we see the brief interactions between two strangers as they navigate a post-global warming world further afflicted by violent creatures of artificial intelligence.
Highway 1 USA | Opera
An American opera in one act with music by William Grant Still, the “dean of African American composers” and libretto by Verna Arvey. Originally composed during the 1940s with the title A Southern Interlude, the opera received its premiere under its revised and definitive title in 1963.