University Theatre's Rashomon ​(2021)

Directed by David Furumoto, scenic design by Neil Mills, assistant scenic design by Juliana Gessner, scenic charge artist Teresa Sarkela

​As assistant scenic designer for this show, I was tasked with creating the large surround located all the way upstage reusing large canvas panels from a previous show. I illustrated the design, pictured below, in Adobe Photoshop and was inspired by traditional Japanese six panel screens. The director wanted skulls to be a background motif along with the shredded white fabric hanging from the dead tree's branches.

The process of painting the surround consisted of snapping a charcoal grid across each of the panels, sketching the design according to a gridded reference picture, and using the scene shop's paint frame so I didn't have to paint on a ladder.