She Loves Me (ATD)
Production Team
Director - Mary Leonard
Music Director - Kat Moran
Stage Manager - Grace Happe
Choreographer - Nicole Novak
Scenic Designer - Katie Link
Props Designer - Mandy Kolbe
Costume & Makeup Designer - Joe Anderson
Lighting Designer - Camille Foss
Sound Designer - Ben Golden
Technical Director - Megan Morey
Assistant Technical Directors - Brodyn Byington, Sage
Goetsch, August Jennings
As the first show I was ATD for, I was only assigned to draft one simple unit. However, I did so well on my first drawing that the Technical Director asked me to draft more units so I ended up drafting approximately 8 more drawings, which were all more challenging.
There is one scene in this musical which takes place in a romantic café, which is a drastically different setting than the rest of the show. The scenic designer decided to use a wall that could be flown in for just that one scene. Because the wall was going to be flown, it was built using 1x4's on face. I drafted this with the red denoting keystones and corner blocks, and the blue denoting the seams for the lauan, which the wall was faced with. This was my first ever drawing, and it was used by the scene shop for construction of the wall.
The two walls for the stairway consisted of Hollywood flats with spindles and railings attached on top of them. Due to the complexity of these units, multiple drawings were needed for each.
Rear View
One of the more difficult drawings I did for She Loves Me was the framing for two wall units that had windows in them. I had to draft a seam catch for where the two pieces of lauan would meet as well as draft the correct size opening for the arch so the window unit would be able to sit nicely inside the wall.
Production photos courtesy of Joe Anderson & Ben Golden