I was excited when I got this job designing sets and costumes for this production. I delved into the research of the seventeenth century French corset (in a production like this, sometimes I like to start with how a character moves). As I’m well into my research, the director calls and says," I’ve been thinking...(a preface that does not bode well), there was this thing in Waco, Texas…"

So I abandoned the corset drawings of Norah Waugh, started looking at Nickleodian, and the characters came easily to me. The interior set came to me as "precious minimalist", a current trend we see too much of - acres of empty space where a beaten up board (coffee table), is carefully placed with the reverence one would give to an altar. It was an interior for a nouveau riche family assembled by a decorator.

Tartuffe, Moliere • University of New Hampshire
Director: John Edwards, Set and Costume Designer: Alison Ford, Lighting Designer: Mark DeLorenzo