Pen Award-Winner!

Wonderful!

Se Llama Cristina, a play by Octavio Solis which Kitchen Dog Theater produced last year (and I got to set design) has just won the prestigious Pen Literary Award for Drama!

Se Llama Cristina by Octavio Solis

This photo by Matt Mrozek shows actors Vanessa DeSilvio, Israel Lopez and the shadow of Jeremy Schwartz.  

Also my set... "mine" meaning many, many people's actually.  Christie Vela directed.

Stretching...

Today the anonymous-apartment-levitating-limbo set for Kitchen Dog Theater's production of Se Llama Christina is getting closer to finished...  streeeeetching the fabric "wallpaper" over the flats and frames.  The fabric is necessary partly for texture, but mostly because it hides secrets...

As soon as we get this fabric stapled in place, we'll cut away enough muslin to reveal the windows on the stage left (or SL) wall.  And eventually I'll add paint, remains of wallpaper, and years of landlord-neglect.

Here are the Dogs at work (I'm the one behind the levitating baby's crib, almost under the ladder, pulling on the far DS SL corner.)

Kitchen Dog Theater Se Llama Christina - photo courtesy of Sarah Duc

Come see this world premier new play by Octavio Solis!