Set Designer

Mama’s in the kitchen early preparing her famous stew for a big event, but even as her daughters and granddaughter help, she still feels like time is running out. Soon these three generations of Black women begin to feel their past and present closing in. A finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Zora Howard’s hilarious, haunting, and taut 90-minute drama has a lot more cooking underneath the surface.

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Stew

Pasadena Playhouse

Amanda and Elyot are enjoying a romantic honeymoon – just not with each other. This hilarious classic comedy filled with clever, witty barbs starts when an explosive divorced couple and their new spouses inadvertently honeymoon in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. When combustible chemistry reignites, mayhem occurs, and strong passions and stronger personalities take over. Noël Coward’s most popular and enduring comedy is a funny, tempestuous battle of equals. Director KJ Sanchez introduces new locations and time periods that add glamour and grit to Coward’s iconic, wry comedy. The first act will take place in 1931 Argentina, while the second act takes place in modern-day Uruguay.

Private Lives

Herberger Theater Center

Temple of Music and Art

In this visually rich and innovative reimagining of Sophocles’ classic play, Oedipus  unfolds as a murder mystery, a political thriller, and a psychological whodunit. 

OEDIPUS at the Getty Villa

Getty Villa Museum

On Gold Mountain, composed by Nathan Wang and based on the book by Lisa See, tells the true story of Fong See, a pioneer of Los Angeles’ Chinatown who immigrated to America to work and find his fortune. Along the way he overcame many obstacles, finding both love and hardship. Most importantly, he discovered himself. In the opera, we not only relive the experiences of Fong See, his American wife Ticie, and other Chinese pioneers, but we also realize the ways in which memory and experience influence our sense of who we are.

On Gold Mountain

The Huntington

Utilizing the multi-storied, multi-roomed Strand Theater as non-traditional theater space, audiences will be broken up into four groups that independently tour Fefu’s home. Stories and histories come into play as you happen across conversations as Fefu’s bohemian and raucous cohorts gossip, question, flirt, provoke, and ultimately reveal (or hide?) the universal understandings between women. As muscular and searing in her deliberate use of language as Albee and Miller at their best; as acidic as Clare Boothe Luce’s iconic play The Women; and patron saint to blockbuster hits like Sleep No More—Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends is an invitation to a theatrical experience like none other.

Tanya Orellana

Set Designer

Events

Jul 12 - Aug 6, 2023

Stew · Pasadena Playhouse

Apr 15 - May 28, 2023

Private Lives · Arizona Theatre Company

Sep 1 - Oct 1, 2022

OEDIPUS at the Getty Villa ·

5 - 15 May, 2022

On Gold Mountain · LA Opera

Mar 24, 2022

Fefu and Her Friends · American Conservatory Theater

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