Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

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Lynne Porter (Resident Designer and Director, Theatre Program at Fairfield University)

Unmasking Theatre Design

A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Lynne Porter (Resident Designer and Director, Theatre Program at Fairfield University)

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Routledge
15 December 2014

Theatre: technical & background skills

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

By: Lynne Porter (Resident Designer and Director Theatre Program at Fairfield University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.020kg
ISBN: 9781138831957
ISBN 10: 1138831956
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 15 December 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lynne Porter is Resident Designer and Director of the Theatre Program at Fairfield University, where she has been teaching, administrating, and making theatre since 1995.She is also the Academic Director of Creative Life Residential College, a sophomore experience focused on inspiring the creative impulse. She regularly designs for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where she is an Affiliated Artist of the Ensemble. She also designs with the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project in New York and various theatres from Maine to Georgia. Lynne is an associate member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, as well as the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She holds an MFA in scenic design from Indiana University.

Reviews for Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

"""I have read other design books and, while they are valuable, [Unmasking Theatre Design] is the first that I read from start to finish. The language and topics flowed wonderfully and I was fully engaged in what I was reading. I feel very strongly that [this] book is an asset to me as a designer and a resource that I will suggest to other designers in the future."" - M.K. Hughes, Southern Illinois University ""Your book completely changed my perspective and approach to design, and I think this is going to do wonders for the way that I teach, and the way my students learn."" - Julia Fisher, Theatre Teacher at Saint Martin de Porres High School"