Catriona Morris is a Costume Designer, Cosplayer, and Hair/Makeup Artist from Sudbury, Massachusetts. Her work includes Burlesque and Drag as well as Theatre, and she enjoys switching roles to perform in those disciplines on occasion. She enjoys high drama, fashion disasters, and anything that could […]
Category: Theatre Design and Technology
Blogs about theatre design and technology inside Emerson Stage.
SUMMER SPOTLIGHT: Alison (Yueming) Qu checks in from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
My name is Alison (Yueming) Qu and I am a BFA Theater major in the Department of Performing Arts at Emerson College. This summer I am lucky enough to join the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for a six-week theatre-maker intensive. […]
Q&A With Owen Meadows, Working Associate Sound Designer and Mix Engineer
Emerson Stage’s production of the musical Working (2012 Revised Version) opens on Thursday, April 18, at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. I reached out to Associate Sound Designer and Mix Engineer Owen Meadows, BFA ‘20, about his roles, process, and his experience working with Emerson Stage. […]
Q&A with Tom Simpson, Working Co-Lighting Designer
Emerson Stage’s production of the musical Working (2012 Revised Version) opens on Thursday, April 18, at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. I reached out to Co-Lighting Designer Tom Simpson, BFA ‘19, about his role, process, and experience working with Emerson Stage. What inspires your […]
Conversation with ‘Titanic’ Costume Designer
By Clare Lockhart, Student Marketing Assistant Titanic opens next Thursday, April 20! We wanted to give you an inside look into the creative teams behind this amazing musical. We interviewed Costume Designer A.W. Nadine Grant about life in 1912, fashion history, and the passengers […]
Uncommon Women, uncommonly excellent playlist
A few weeks ago, the EmStage twitter account was very excited to get the following message: We admit, it’s been a little more than a week — there was another whole SHOW that happened in there (also: a lot of snow). BUT, now that we’ve closed […]
Costume Obsession
If you’re the kind of person who bases their Must See TV on “which shows have the best wardrobe” (All you Downton Abbey fans, don’t even pretend to look the other way)…well, you are in luck: Fathers & Sons, which is based on the classic novel […]
Café Variations: Meet the Designers
Interview with Brian Scott, lighting designer by Tierra Bonser Brian Scott described his role as lighting designer as a, “visual storyteller with light composition, the purpose of which is to support the way a story is being told as a whole and to acknowledge the […]
The Making of an Antelope
Rough & Tumble, the play, follows the crew of Rough & Tumble, a survival television show on location in the Amazon, where you would expect to see and hear any number of animals. In fact, twenty to forty million species of animals are estimated to live in […]
Theater Transformed Into South Central LA
This past Monday, the Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 scenic team started loading the show’s scenery in the Semel Theater. In case you missed our Facebook post on Tuesday, there is an actual car in Emerson’s Tufte Center! We had the chance to talk to Twilight […]