About Me

I am a lighting, scenic, and projection designer, animator, playwright, and photographer currently based in Austin Texas. 

The natural and scientific world is full of so many beautiful images: The color shifts that occur on the edge of black holes as light waves are pulled like a spring, the ephemerality of flowers that only bloom at night, the ever-changing structure of quasicrystals. I use ideas like these to build bridges between a narrative and an audience.

I am also a devout art nerd, so my research will often contain both scientific and artistic references. Dramaturgy and understanding the story I’m helping to tell dictates every choice I make. My goal in designing a show is to ultimately marry the script with the concepts I bring in as an artist. Eventually, the text, art, and science become inseparable.

I started my journey as a STEM student who took a required humanities class and fell in love with storytelling. In the five years since I began designing I have worked in Theatre, Dance, and Opera. I am particularly passionate about imagining new and radical designs that transport the audience to new worlds.

I hold a B.S. in Theatre from Middle Tennessee State University and am currently pursuing my M.F.A. in Live Design and Production with a concentration in Lighting Design at the University of Texas at Austin.

The collaborators who I have chosen to link are great. If I have not linked to a person it does not (usually) mean anything. I couldn’t get their URL at the time.

The Few random animations around the site are done by me.