Set and Production Design
Home Delivery Shadow Puppet Shows
Lead Artist and Puppet Design
Theatre SKAM
October 23-31, 2020
Theatre SKAM's Home Delivery Pop-Up Theatre presented two shadow puppet plays: Quest for the Moon written by Olivia Wheeler and Silly & Scary Stories adapted from folktales.
Lead Artist and Puppet Designer: Olivia Wheeler
Collaborators: Hannah Mariko Bell, Kendra Bidwell, Lynnéa Chan, Matthew Payne and Logan Swain
Photos: Olivia Wheeler and Sam Duerksen
Set and Sound Design
JCURA BFA Project
February 20-21, 2020
EVOKE was an immersive installation based off the five stages of grief. This looping performative installation explored how performance design alone can tell a story, transform the atmosphere and environment, and have the equivalent emotional impact on the audience as a live performer.
Creator and Researcher: Olivia Wheeler
Set and Sound Design: Olivia Wheeler
Lighting and Projection Design: Glen Shafer
Supervisors: Patrick Du Wors and Sasha Kovacs
Photos: Annie Konstantinova
Backliners
Production Design
Theatre SKAM
August 26-28, 2020
Backliners is a comedy about vulnerability and the anxiety of feeling out of control. Six teens all with social anxiety have been forced to take an improv class to help them overcome it.
Playwright: Ellery Lamm
Director: Mikaela Haeusser
Production Designer: Olivia Wheeler
Production Manager, Lighting Designer: Logan Swain
Livestream: Pedro M. Siqueira
Stage Manager: Ruby Dawn Wallace
Photos: Astra Lund
Testimony of Rain
Set Design and Shadow Puppets
Student Alternative Theatre Company
January 16-18, 2019
Testimony of Rain is a dark comedy about a woman whose life is turned upside-down after two strangers break into her house to make her change an important testimony.
Playwright: Lauren Frost
Director: Andrew Fraser with assistance from Lindsey Schneider
Set Design and Shadow Puppets: Olivia Wheeler
Costume Design: Annie Konstantinova
Lighting Design: Hina Nishioka
Sound Design: Nicholas Atkinson
Stage Manager: Taylor Guidotti
Photos: Annie Konstantinova
Maquettes
EVOKE
Preliminary Maquette for February 2020 Research Project and Production EVOKE
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Inspired by the designs of Thadeus Kantor and Margaret Atwood's Poem Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
The Arrangement
Inspired by the designs of Anna Viebrock and Joni Mitchell's song The Arrangement
Suzanne
Inspired by the designs of Edward Gordon Craig and Adolphe Appia, and the poem and song Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
Shokin-Tei Tea Room
Maquette of the Shokin-Tei Tea Room at the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, Japan.