Theater & Opera
Amahl & the Night Visitors
The Carolina Theatre of Durham
Orchestra: The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
Artistic Director: Niccolo Muti
Conductor: Lorenzo Muti
Choreographer: Gerri Houlihan
Lighting Design: James Clotfelter
Scenic Design: Niccolo Muti & James Clotfelter
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen
Assistant Costume Designer: Q Le
Prop Design: Niccolo Muti & Eric Love
Performers: Latoya Lain, Luca Smith, Darren Drone, Dylan Morrongiello, Matthew Anchel, Eric Love, Sarah Bowdoin, Bethany Joy Miller Sullivan, Beth Starosta-Desmond
A holiday opera of mystery, miracles, generosity, and wonder.
The Little Prince
NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage & Film- Master’s Thesis
An Opera by Rachel Portman & Nicholas Wright
Theoretically set in BAM Harvey
A tale for all ages, of nostalgia, love, and the importance of keeping a child-like sense of wonder as you move through life.
Orfeo ed Eurydice
March 2023, The Carolina Theatre (NC)
Producer: Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
Director: Niccolo Muti
Conductor: Lorenzo Muti
Lighting Design: Niccolo Mutti
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen
Performers: Megan Moore, Susannah Stewart, Molly Quinn, & The Carolina Choir at UNC
{performance photos coming soon}
A tale of what appears to be impossible love, yet with a happy ending. A nostalgic mashup of elements of the 1930’s & greek mythologic influences.
Iolanthe; or, The Peer & the Peri
Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Librettist: W.S. Gilbert
Director: Gayden Wren
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen
Scenic Design: Joe Kenney
{production photos to come}
A lighthearted comic opera with a heavy dose of political satire, that faces a fleet of fairies against the British aristocracy in the House of Lords, as a half-man, half-fairy is elected to the House of Commons, and chaotic love triangles ensue.
The Rose Elf
Unrealized Opera Design Project, NYU Tisch
Composer & Librettist: David Hertzberg
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytale
A dark, whimsical fairytale for all ages, empowering the small, the quiet, the underdogs, and giving nature a chance to strike its revenge against the humans who choose to crush life on the earth, while allying themselves with those who tend nature instead.
Dance Nation
September 2021 NYC
Producer: NYU Graduate Productions
Directors & Choreographers: Machel Ross & Fay Simpson
Scenic Design: Gabriela Rojo
Lighting Design: Ebony Burton
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen
Photographer: Ella Bromblin & Nadja Antic
A slightly surrealist, dramatized take on the trials & tribulations of a small-town, pre-teen competitive dance team in the early 2000’s, as they deal with friendship, coming-of-age, what it means to be The Best, & some fun dance interludes including turning into Sexy Robo Baby Monsters that gnash teeth, climb the walls, & lash out when teenage emotions run wild.
Romeo & Juliet
January 2021 NYC
Producer: NYU Graduate Productions
Director: Brandon Dirden
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen & Krista Intranuovo
Lighting Designer: Christopher Wong & Ebony Burton
Scenic Design: Oscar Escobedo & Nadja Antic
Photographer: Ella Bromblin
An experimental COVID-era production featuring 2 theaters, 2 audiences streamed into opposite theaters at times, 4 Romeos, 4 Juliets, and constant switching of other roles throughout Shakespeare’s classic. The double-design-team was interested in looking at the crushing immediacy of everything in life today for the younger generation, the anxiety that speed and pressure can create, the performative aspect of social media in lives, & playing with how many are turning to celestial guidance/tarot/horoscopes increasingly, to make sense of it all.
Frankenstein
NYC, Fall 2022
Producer: The United Nations International High School
Writer & Director: Simon Bell
Costume Design: Lauren Carmen
Lighting Design: Matthew Weisgable
Scenic Design: Mengyi Liu
Creature’s Special Effect Makeup: Jaime Gruber
A high school production following young rebel author Mary Shelley as she creates her novel, and the characters inside the world of Frankenstein, at the same time we follow the story of Frankenstein the novel itself. Ensemble members fluidly, constantly switch from being contemporary-era representations of the words on the page & the book-y-ness itself, to being Regency characters within the period story, using key add-on costume pieces to transform the base costume silhouettes from one era to another.
