Scenic Design Portfolio

Ripcord

Maples Repertory Theatre / 2022

Scenic design archive for Ripcord at Maples Repertory Theatre, featuring Gretchen Ugalde's rendering and production photography from the 2022 production.

Renderings

Scenic renderings, created in Vectorworks.

Rendering for Ripcord showing Gretchen Ugalde's scenic environment for the production at Maples Repertory Theatre.

Production Photos

Production photo from Ripcord showing the scenic design in performance at Maples Repertory Theatre.
Production photo from Ripcord capturing another moment within Gretchen Ugalde's set for the production.
Production photo from Ripcord showing the stage environment from a different angle during performance.
Production photo from Ripcord highlighting the full scenic composition under production lighting.

Design Statement

et in a sunny room on an upper floor of a Senior Living Facility, Ripcord is a comedy that follows a cranky Abby and a high-spirited Marilyn who cannot stand living with each other. The two wildly different women place a bet which intensifies into a risky game of cutthroat competition that exposes not just the stubbornness of these women, but also greater truths that each would rather remain mysterious.

After designing a handful of suggestive realism sets, creating something modern like this was a lot of fun for me! I studied features in a senior-living apartment, and I was focused on the color story to complement the bright, funny, and hopeful themes of this story.