Cassandra Phillips: Scenic Artist
 
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It seems it has been a while since I have posted any updates.  Unfortunately, moving across the country and starting a new job takes a lot out of your routine!  

But, here we are, and I'm ready to get caught up.  I have been through so much in the last few months in my personal life but I have also been keeping busy around the new shop.  

We at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are a repertory theater, and it has been quite the adventure to get back into the swing of rep life.  There is a lot to be said for focusing on one show at a time, really getting into it, then loading it in and making sure it is perfect for the run.  However, I like the variety around the shop at a rep theater.  We have three spaces here at OSF, the New Theatre, a mostly thrust stage, but the seats can be reconfigured in any way, the Angus Bowmer Theatre, our proscenium , and  the Elizabethan, which we lovingly call "the Lizzy."  By now we have opened much of our shows for this season, including two for the New Theatre, and four in the Bowmer.   

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One of my first projects here was to work on the floor for "The Seagull"  by Anton Chekov.  It is a beautiful design in which the stage itself becomes the lake that is referenced in the play that the woman (the seagull) lives her life freely over and that the play takes place next to.  We used HVLP sprayers to create realistic ripples and waves in the water.

The holes you see are for inserts that keep the sheets attached together and to the floor for the rep.  

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Here's a shot of the floor in the space:

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 Turned out rather nice, I think! 


Cassandra Phillips: Scenic Artist