Scenic Design Portfolio

Living Out

University of California, Irvine / 2020

Lisa Loomer's Living Out plunges the audience into the brutally honest world of working mothers in today's culture. The play centers around two women from vastly different backgrounds balancing work and parenthood in Los Angeles, California.

Renderings

Scenic renderings, created in Vectorworks.

Scenic rendering for Living Out showing the freeway-sign architecture and mapped floor treatment of the set.

Production Photos

Wide production photo from Living Out showing the full scenic environment and freeway-inspired framing.
Production photo from Living Out capturing the stage picture across Gretchen Ugalde's Los Angeles setting.
Vertical production photo from Living Out focused on performers within the urban scenic world.
Production photo from Living Out showing another moment inside the mapped-floor environment.
Production photo from Living Out highlighting the actors against the angular skyline and signage motifs.
Production photo from Living Out capturing the shared furniture and contrasting domestic worlds on stage.
Vertical production photo from Living Out emphasizing performance within the layered city composition.
Production photo from Living Out showing the scenic design under stage lighting from a wide audience view.

Design Statement

fter 2.5 years spent at UC Irvine, this was my first main-stage scenic design. When working with the director, she described the world as cold, rigid, and stressfully face-paced.

The set consists of large freeway signs, skyline cutouts, and a road map on the floor which all indicate to the audience that they're now on the freeways of Los Angeles. I intended to give the sensation that we are now in this high-speed, cutthroat world that the mothers of the story are living in. And the use of the same furniture pieces rearranged for both households is to highlight the parallels between the two families.