Graves Mansion
MFA Thesis Project, 2024
Kids Television Pitch
Rated PG, Ages 10-13, 30 minute episodes.
Logline: 13-year-old Mauve, the daughter of a fringe ex-government scientist, Reggie, is tasked with getting rid of his illegal monster experiments. Instead, she secretly finds them homes that suit them perfectly. After discovering she herself is a lab monster, she finds chosen family and what it means to belong.
Sonar Monster's Escape: Storyboard Plot
Mauve escapes with a monster from Reggie's lab for the first time. While in the woods, they encounter a pack of wolves wearing collars with her father's lab symbol (what does he have to do with this?) Mauve finds resolve and escapes to a roof to avoid the snapping wolves. The monster's sonar abilities failed in Reggie's lab, but Mauve discovers the high pitch makes the wolves flee to the trees. The monster does have purpose after all!
Keyframes and Visual Development
Crime and Punishment
The American Ballet Theater, 2024
Projection Designer: Tal Yarden
Traditional drawings
Storyboards for filmed projection design to be shown during live production.
Two sisters, Alyona and Lizavetta, live in the protagonist Rodion's mind taunting him to the edge of madness. Through abstract visions he confronts his own feelings of dread, guilt, and death. This section of the classic tale was inspired by German Expressionism, especially The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.
Physical Media
Short film, 2025
by Quinn McHugh Fluet
Movie night isn't for the weak.
Completed project link
Boris Godunov
The National Paris Opera, 2018
Projection Designer: Tal Yarden
Traditional drawings
Storyboards for filmed projection design to be shown during live production.
Boris experiences memories or visions of madness on an endless staircase.
Harbinger
Horror Screenplay
by Quinn McHugh Fluet
Pages 25 & 26
When Jason discovers ancient family secrets connected to their land, he ventures into the woods to see it for himself.
In Deep
Animated Short
Oceanographer, Hadley Croft, is searching the sea floors for a rare plant, the Dragus. A sample hasn't been found in years, and she's determined to change that. After a week of finding nothing, suddenly, Hadley spots the Dragus! She grabs a sample and brings it inside her submarine, but soon discovers the plant's insidious intentions.
ENO Hammocks
Commercial Concept
For portfolio purposes only
Superhero
2nd Stage Theater's original musical by John Logan and Tom Kitt.
Projection Designer: Tal Yarden
Role: Associate Projection Designer
Created frame-by-frame animation to produce a comic book come to life on stage. Produced backgrounds and drawings in collaboration with projection designer.
*Lucille Lortel winner for Best Projection Design*
