Ben

The Set for 'Spalding Gray' was a very simple deck and a backdrop of white crumpled notebook paper that acted as a cyc. The paper cyc had 2 layers and was porous exposing the brick back wall of the theater. The piece had five actors performing different excerpts of Spalding's text as monologues. For most of the piece I was able to focus on one actor while toning the playing space and creating broad strokes of color and texture on the paper backdrop and the brick wall. At times I was trying to evoke a time of day or a part of the country and at times my goal was to support the emotional energy of what was being said. Rosco colors and gobos played a huge role in helping me create the world for Spalding's words."