When I design sets, I am really picky about color. To a ridiculous degree.  The color scheme of a production is really important to me.  I obsess over every shade and hue, and I want the costumes and print materials to coordinate with my master plan.  When I produced The Wizard of Oz, I wouldn’t allow one speck of blue anywhere.  Dorothy’s blue gingham dress than distinguished her as an outsider.

I suppose set design gives me a chance to produce the over-the-top interiors I could never do in real life.  The exaggerated qualities needed for the stage are so unlike my actual interior designs.  …And  crazy is expected in theater, so I get away with it… 

I spent the evening studying three years worth of Charles Schulz’s strips.  I want our set to have the same quality as his signature style of cartooning.