Calarts 2024

Synopsis:

Guiding Design Questions:

How do you communicate the heat?
How do you express the culture?
How do you convey what is important and valuable to the characters?
How do I play with breaking the fourth wall and audience participation?
How do you make the set sustainable with the materials in question?
What collaborations with the lighting designer and costume designers can we undertake to express the transformation that occurs?
How can we convey a myth using an older, more organic storytelling method?

Production Team:
Written by Femi Osofisan
Director: Julanne Hill
Choreographed by Ayana Amoa
Scenic Designer: Holly Webb
Lighting Designer: Miles Karraa
Technical director: Gigi Moreno
Costume Designer: Ian Do
Sound Designer: Cristian Amigo
Graphic Designer: Oscar Thomspo

Morountodun

(I Have Found a Sweet Thing )

Sustainble Design

*It was crucial to our team of Storytellers that the play is as sustainable as possible. We are committed to defining what stage design can look like with sustainability as a core value, especially within our CalArts community.

Mood Boards

From the very first meeting, texture and material have been key aspects of my research, helping me to understand the culture, story, climate, and environment in which the narrative takes place. By incorporating elements of the earth into our story, we can represent this culture and risks, immersing the audience in the FARM itself.
If the director can break the fourth wall, so can the DIRT!

Sketches of each Scene Change

Procreate

Drafting

Story Board Rendering (Twinmotion, Photoshop, Indesign)

Construction Process