Do Big Kids Cry?

Scenic Designer, Painter, & Technical Director

Director: Anna Hampton
Location: Manhattan, Bag of Lights Theater
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Painting: Every scenic item from the TV to the couch to the mini shopping carts was spray-painted a pastel color before I went in by hand to add the graphic black linework to all of those items and all the originally yellow fabric set elements.
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  • The set is of a surreal and cartoonish playroom that distorts scale and reality.
  • This original play by MJ Farrell explores the absurdity of social norms and expectations by having adults act as kids who are pretending to be adults.

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