This is a "transforming bed" made for Dialogue of the Carmelites at The Juilliard School Spring 2025. This is the final version of the bed before an extra paint treatment was added. This bed changed quite a bit from the original design to the final show product. This bed is also used as a litter of sorts when one of the nuns passes away. That was decided midway through the rehearsal process.
The bed can stand up at an angle or be flat like a normal bed.
This was the state of the beds (minus some sanding in process) before changes were made. Pretty standard.
This is my first draft ever. This is the base of the beds.
This is a door bell cover made for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The dragonfy was 3-D printed.
2 barn doors were made for a production of The 39 Steps at Utah Shakespeare Festival in their 2024 season. This is the finished product before painted by the scenic artists.
Barn doors in use.
This is a glue up of 5 planks biscuit joined together originally intended for a production of Twelfth Night at The Juilliard School in 2025. This table top was cut due to designer deciding on a black table. You'll soon see the black table...the designer cut that table and went in a different direction.
Planks plunge routed on a circle jig.
This is the black table that had an apron made for it and was painted.
I found this table on the street and decided it needed a good home and to be restored to its former glory. Fortunately, it ended up being cast in An Absolute Turkey at The Juilliard School in 2025.
Table top was stripped and re-finished. One of the legs broke in half and was dowel jigged back together.
A sink counter top made for Twelfth Night at The Juilliard School in 2025.
Jacks were made to keep the sink aloft and plumbing was added to make it look like a real sink.
Toilet paper holder was really quickly thrown together for the same production of Twelfth Night.
This chair is a real antique! It was in The Turn Of The Screw (The Juilliard School, 2025) and the springs had exploded out of the upholstery! We tried to fix the springs, but ultimately, we replaced the seat with 1/2 ply, foam, batting, muslin for shaping, and finally the show fabric (which was the original fabric that a fellow artisan did surgery on), and the gimp was glued on.
The following pictures are the process to make arches for a 2024 production of Much Ado About Nothing at Utah Shakespeare Festival.