Gal Pals
You can, if you want
Set & Sound Designer
Blue Room Theatre, Main Season, 2024
Two weeks in conversion therapy. Kat wants to be there, Hez thought it was a leadership camp, and Sloane’s brought care packages. In a whirlwind of smuggled phones, attempted escapes, punishment essays and betrayals, five queer kids find their own.
“The Blue Room Theatre space is turned into a room reminiscent of But I’m A Cheerleader, pastel pinks and yellow, with a detailed paper mache tree encroaching over the right side of the stage, a strong stylistic world guiding us into the next 90 minutes”
– Magazine 6000, (Gal Pals 2024)
My main priority when designing the set for GalPals was to make safe space that both played into the requirements of the naturalism, and was a stable platform for the audience off which to jump into heavy topics.
I created this stained glass window to have a piece of set that consistently and beautifully interacted with the lighting design. The way the colours created coloured ripples on the wall made the window an omnipresent reminder of the religious themes it spoke to.
Using sound to creatively move through time
Gal Pals had mostly naturalistic sound design requirements, but used references made in the script to queer events, icons, and pop culture to transition scene in a stylized and impactful way.
I blended familiar anglican hymns with queer media, such as Matildas games and The Colour Purple, to link space and time to the thematics of the work - sometimes playing for comedy, but more often than not seeking to create harmony between the contrasting spaces