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Prop Designer From there I mixed up other colors and used the piping tips we had to decorate the cake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/be17d893-95c5-49a6-be3b-d15fd2ab8eb1/IMG_6241.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/abd10296-f02c-4604-8cb6-67736262aab8/IMG_6012.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer Using Adobe Photoshop to create a book dust cover for the premier of a play called Circle Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/73736988-67d3-4424-8ddf-c24c88bea268/IMG_6027.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/49b99426-9955-4cf4-b285-c2f2b49323bf/IMG_6029.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/dfbe9e90-bb55-4b06-ac5b-e99b66917464/IMG_6030.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer The playwright liked the cover so much that she took all of the copies made and said she is going to give one to every production of the play from here on out to use in their production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/c8721bf6-527a-41c2-94eb-181ffe0da291/IMG_5434.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer Rough scale drawing for the door chimes in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68220286e7571e58e91d0cb2/badf94f6-edd3-4186-9cde-66c9d8115276/IMG_5437.jpeg Technical Theatre - Prop Designer I laminated plywood with luan to create a better texture for the chimes. 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