Ride the Cyclone
Written by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Directed by Jenny Lavery
Performed at the B. Iden Payne Theatre at the University of Texas at Austin
In this contemporary musical, a sardonic automated fortune-teller guides five students in the afterlife as they compete to see who can return back to the land of the living.
This was the first play I designed in which I worked with drapers to bring my renderings from the page into real life from scratch.
Spring ‘23
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