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University Theatre's Joe Turner's Come and Gone (2025)

Directed by Dr. Baron Kelly
Assistant Director - Sandra Adell
Intimacy Director - Audrey Lauren Standish
Violence Director - Whitney Derendinger
Movement Coach - Idy Ciss
Dramaturg - Lily Zyndorf Shell
Outreach Coordinator - Susanne C. Voeltz

Scenic Designer and Scenic Charge Artist - Juliana Gessner
Costume Designer - Shelly Cornia
Lighting Designer - Megan Reilly, assisted by Jove Steuber
Sound Designer - Ryan Bertelson
Technical Director - Rob Wagner
Properties Director - Isabel Osterhus

Production Stage Manager - Jahana Azodi
Joe Turner Scenic Design

Floor & Deck Treatments

DIRT & GRASS:
The dirt was a 2-color scumble done with a split roller over a black primer base. I then went back in with a spatter of the highlight and lowlight over everything. The grass was done with the same technique, and everything got seal coat of matte Behr Polyurethane.

FLOORBOARDS:
After the MDF was primed, it was based in a near-black blue-green. The blue floorboards were laid in with a 7" lay-in brush using the long sides of the MDF as a guide. I varied the texture of each board slightly by using more or less paint, and used the same technique for the highlights on select floorboards. The rust-orange streaks were a thinner wash. I then spattered the highlight and lowlight across the surface and sealed everything with a 50/50 satin/dull flat acrylic urethane finish.

Foam Carving: Stone Chimney and Garden Wall


Rust & Grain Treatments

The woodgrain and rusted steel pieces used the same base colors in order to promote a sense of unity throughout the set. For the woodgrain, I streaked the burnt umber base with the rust orange followed by a darkened raw umber on the top.

For the rusted steel, I sponged a light grey circled by rust orange and spattered the darkened raw umber across the top.

Walls

The walls used the same technique as the floorboards with slightly different colors; the lower wall has a lighter, more yellow highlight with no rust accents, and the upper wall has a slight gradient to the top.
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