Panto Alicia in Wonderland

Opening December 2023 - Sterling Stage at The Gordy - Stages, Houston

Director: Benito Vasquez & Marissa Castillo

Music and arrangements Anthony Almendárez

Music Director: Alfredo Méndez Peimbert

ChoreographerÑ Cynthia Garcia

Fight choreographer: Luke Fedell

Stage Manager: Ashley Ginn

Assistant SM: Carlor Cantu

Set Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Lighting Designer: Ash Parra

Video DesignerÑ Sarah Flores

Costume Designer: Kristina Ortiz Miller

Sound Designer: Matt Crawford

Props Designer: Jodi Bobrovsky

Dramaturgy: Rosarito Rodríguez-González

Photography by Melissa Taylor

Alicia walking through Wonderland rendering

To Kill a Mockingbird set design

Opening April 2019 - Playhouse Theatre, Penn State

Director: Susan Schulman

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Austin Rausch

Lighting Designer: Noah Guth

Preliminary Design

Memory Play watercolor concept

Ground plan To kill a mockingbird

Finch House drafting details

Radley House Paint Elevation

Model for To Kill a Mockingbird

The Folks at Home by R Eric Thomas

Opening February 14th 2024 - Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo NY

Director: Daniel F. Lendzian

Scenic designer: Tania Barrenechea

Lighting designer: Emma Schimminger

Costume designer: James Cichocki

Properties designer: Diane Almeter Jones with Edie Gregg

Stage manager: Mike Benoit

Million Dollar Quartet with book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

Opening August 10th 2024 - Saugatuck Center for the Arts Theatre, Saugatuck MN

Artistic Director: Kurt Stamm

Producer: Maribeth Van Hecke

Director: Trey Compton

Music direction: Chris “Red” Blisset

Scenic designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Marley Boone

Sound Designer: Jacob Myny

Lighting Designer: Jennifer Kules

Technical Director/Props Designer: Kevin MacLeod

Wig and Hair Designer: Paige Francis

Assistant Producer/Company Manager: Brandon Ruiter

Production Stage Manager: Danny Kuenzel

Assistant Stage Manager: Olivia Teller

Cast: Dan Fenaughty, James Scheider, Jeremy Sevelovitz, Owen Harrison, Kyle Southern, Jennifer Brett, Chris “Red” Blisset, Alex Hamel, Alex Burnette, Dale Obermark, Payton Reilly, Nathan Turland

Photo Credits: Robert Antor , Saugatuck Center for the Arts

A Little Night Music set design

Opening November 2019 - Playhouse Theatre, Penn State

Director: Phillip Fazio

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Alyssa Ridder

Lighting Designer: Jessica Holmes

Sound Design: Olivia Girdano

Technical Director: James McDougal

The Dining Room Scene

Send in the Clowns

Scene Transitions breakdown

Now / Later / Soon

In Praise of women

Finale

Drafting Sample - Terrace

Portal 2 Paint Elevation

Ground plan - A Little Night Music

A Case for the Existence of God

Opening May 2024 - Stages, Houston TX

Director: Mitchell Greco

Set Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Lighting Designer: Christina Giannelli

Costume Designer: Clair Hummel

Sound Designer: Robert Leslie Meek

Props Designer: Jodi Bobrovsky

Stage Manager: Ashley Ginn

Photo credit: Melissa Taylor

Head Over Heels

Opening April 2024 - Windgate Center for the Performing Arts, Arkansas

Director: Lauren Carlton

Music Director: Garrett Snavely

Choreographer: Christa Rosen

Stage Manager: Liz Baker

Assistant Stage Manager: William O’Neill / Bryan Altstatt

Dramaturg: Dean Prince

Lighting Designer: Trey Ewart

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Keagan Styes-Peña

Assistant Costume Designer: Eli Summers

Sound Designer: Austin Aschbrenner

Assistant Sound Designer: Peter Kha

Props Designer: Michael Moreton

Photography by Madison Ogle and Brenna Metts

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Opening April 2023 - Windgate Center for the Fine and Performing Art Center

Director: Chris Frtzges

Stage Manager:  Liz Reaves

Assistant Stage Manager:  Crystal Delgado-Velez

Stage Management Mentor:  Katie Aschbrenner

Lighting Designer:  Hideaki Tsutsui

Assistant Lighting Designer/Master Electrician:  Trey Ewart

Scenic/Properties Designer:  Tania Barrenechea

Assistant Scenic Designer:  Bri Wallace

Props Artisan:  Destiny Zrebski

Props Artisan:  Will Christy

Scenic Charge: Wyatt Kernodle

Sound Designer:  Austin Aschbrenner

Assistant Sound Designer:  Wes Highbarger

Costume Designer:  Eli Summers

Costume Supervisor/Draper:  Keagan Styes

Stitcher/Hair/Makeup:  LaDiamond Maker

Projection Designer:  Catie Blencowe

Dramaturg: Allysia Rainey

Dialect Coach:  Lauren Carlton

Fight Director:  Chris Fritzges

Photo credit: Eric White

Map of the House, Christopher is trying to find his book, video shows the use of projections in the show.

Reflective strings were used in the corners to create different spaces.

Video Renderings of the design process of Curious Incident.

A Year with Frog and Toad set design

Opening June 2019 - Playhouse Theatre, Penn State / Summer Season

Director: Travis DeCastro & Richard St. Claire

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Richard St. Claire

Lighting Designer: Kenneth Friedhoff

Opening A year with Frog and Toad

Giant Lily pad prop

Frog House Paint Elevation

Ground plan A Year with Frog and Toad

“Giant” Props

Little Shop of Horrors

Opening April 2021 - Bridges Larson Theatre - University of Central Arkansas

Director: Chris Frtzges

Assistant Director: Kyle Chassells

Music Director: Micheal Heavner

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Eli Summers & La’Diamond Maker

Lighting Designer: Jeffrey Oakley

Sound Design: Baaquir Salaam

Technical Director: Austin Aschbrenner

Stage Manager: Jessica Reddig

Assistant Stage Manager: Harlie Gann-Egan, Elizabeth Baker, and John Henry Thomas.

Doo-Wop girls under the L-Train

Photo credit: Eric White

Initial UV Light Concept Render

Run down flower shop

Flower Shop under UV light

Inventing Van Gogh

Opening March 8th, 2024 - Breckenridge Backstage Theatre, CO

Director: Branden Smith

Set Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Lighting Designer: Rachel Fields

Costume Designer: Joey Folsom

Props Designer: Kylee Purcell

Photo credit: Curtis Devore

Godspell

Opening July 2023 - MacHayden Theatre

Director: Trey Compton

Music Director: Eric Shorey

Choreographer: Elizabeth McGuire

Assistant Music Director: Alessandra Alcala

Set Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Lighting Designer: Andrew Gmoser v& Eoghan Hartley

Costume Designer: Angela Cartensen

Sound Designer: Sean McGinley

Props Designer: Adriana Ayala

Hair & Makeup Designer: Emily Allen

Photo credit: Ann Kielbasa

Do You Feel Anger?

Opening April 2021 - Bridges Larson Theatre - University of Central Arkansas

Director: Chris Frtzges

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Eriko Terao

Lighting Designer: Jeffrey Oakley

Sound Design: Jamie Bray

Technical Director: Jamie Bray

Photo Credit: Eric White

The Bathroom

Do You Feel Anger? - The Office

Do You Feel Anger? - The Bathroom

Drafting - Do You Feel Anger?

Photo credit: Eric White

A Christmas is Ochopee

Opening November 2023 - Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis MN

Director: Julia Rosa Sosa

Assistant Director: Charli Fool Bear

Stage Manager: Becca Wilts

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Photography by Ryan Stopera

From Up Here set design

Opening November 2021 - Bridges Larson Theatre - University of Central Arkansas

Director: Kevin Browne

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Eriko Terao

Lighting Designer: Austin Aschbrenner

Sound Design: Jeffrey Oakley

Technical Director: Austin Aschbrenner

The Dance Scene

The shell of a suburban family - The kitchen Look 1

The kitchen Look 2

The kitchen Look 3

3D Drafting

From Up Here Ground plan

From Up Here - Color Model

"Who's That Woman?" – Stella and Company

Follies - MFA Capstone Project

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Goldman

 

Top of Show

Sally ‘s entrance

Overture - Ghost surrounding Sally

Ghost in the theatre

"Waiting for the Girls Upstairs"

Carlotta and Ben

Phyllis and the waiter

“Loveland”

"You're Gonna Love Tomorrow" / "Love Will See Us Through"

“The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me blues”

“Losing My Mind”

“The Story of Lucy and Jessie”

From Sketch to Reality

The Play follows a group of homeless youth characters framed within a retelling of Ovid’s Methamorphoses. The concept for the design was to focus on the empty void created by the psychological turmoil of being alone.

Creating an unbalanced location that could be thought of as an inside or outside, meant to create a depth and false perception of reality. Fortelling the unstable nature of the characters feelings in the labyrinth.

Director: Erik Raymond

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Amelia Callen

Lighting Designer: Deanna Howard

Sound Designer: Jackson Williams

Projection Designer: Noah Guth

Concept Rendering for Philomel story

Concept board, recreation of an empty space, echo and emptiness. Recreation of a labyrinth in an abandoned space.

The feeling of being trapped, “submerged underwater”

Concept Rendering for Graffiti, D’s kingdom

Rendering for Projection Concept - Philomel

Rendering for Projection Concept - How Eurydice crosses the river of forgetfullness

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

Opening September 2023 - Windgate Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CANCELED AFTER BUILT)

Director: Kevin Browne

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Shauna Meador

Assistant Costume Designer: LaDiamond Maker

Lighting Designer: Trey Ewart

Sound Design: Austin Aschbrenner

Technical Director: Austin Aschbrenner

Video showing the process of making a quick digital rendering to explore textures and color in the early design process.

Unfortunately canceled after the build process was underway, here are some of the furniture, props and walls in construction.

From White Model to Color Model, Scale and Proportions changed for a more nightmarish set.

Amadeus - Play by Peter Shaffer

Projection Design for the Scene with Salieri reading Mozart’s sheet music for the first time.

The very popular story of the star-crossed lovers was an interesting challenge. Trying to scape from the conventions of this story and looking at it with fresh eyes. In the end the story of the two lovers is one that could happen anywhere and at any time. The feuding families, living in the same community but seeing everything from different perspectives. The Loretto Hilton Theatre allows for the creation of a space that can immerse the audience with its large trust, making it possible for them to be part of the stone floor on the ceiling and parts of the sky on the floor.

The idea of an “eschersque” upside down city, where Juliet is unattainable and out of bounds to him makes sense in a few different levels.

Using the red and blue that the Capulets and the Montagues are know for now but flipping it around to a metaphor of the sky and the earth. The dichotomy of the red as a blooming flower but also as the red blood that stains the streets, the lovely stars and sky where Juliet lives in Romeo’s dreams and the empty darkness after they commit suicide.

With a moving piece that serves as the entrance to the ball at the Capulet’s house, the balcony, the apothecary and in the end moves back and disappears to reveal a world that is seeing everything as it is.

Romeo and Juliet - Romeo banished

Romeo and Juliet - Act 5

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Costume Design: Austin Rausch

Concept Research

First Sketches

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - The “present” Show curtain

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - At the palace

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - The mountains

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - At the mountains

The Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Section

The amazing play based on the book of the same name has an interesting way of telling the story of Anna Karenina. In the book the two main arcs that are followed are treated as two different stories, they have intersecting characters, but the moods and overall feeling are completely different.

In the play the story of Ana and Levine are told in tandem, where the two characters go into an empty void to talk to each other, is as if Levine was the conscience of Ana, only to move from dream-Levine to the real-Levine of the story. The play feels magical and deep and the licenses that are at play with the two main characters talking to one another as in a dream can be translated to a more ethereal and unconventional portrayal of Anna Karenina.

Based on Russian architecture and shapes, the used of concentric, heavily decorated arcs that conform the different locations of the play, train station, all the different houses, balls and the streets. The light comes from different places to reveal different areas of the stage, making the arches appear very heavy or just shadows.

The looming presence of a dark figure that follows Anna around comes together with the presence of the outside world merging together with the columns and arches to create the world of turmoil and the scary outside nature of Anna’s final resting place.

Refurbished farmhouse for The children’s hour, serves to show the difference between a wide open space inhabited by people and an almost empty and isolating environment in Act 1 and 3.

Act 2 - Tilford’s house

Black and white confined space

Act 1 - Dobie-Wright School for Girls

Act 3 - Dobie-Wright School for Girls

In XVII century Spanish dominated Mexico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was born to a world that was not ready for her wisdom, radical, for the time, ideas and adventurous heart.

She is a woman that was well known for her intelligence, and it is now a role model for women everywhere, teaching us that no matter the situation, our voices should never be silenced.

In the play her life is portrayed going back and forth from her days in court as a young woman to the convent where she eventually died. The feverish dreams make for a very interesting and fantastical play, where characters pop out of wardrobes and come out of trunks. The design is just as fluid, conforming two spaces that double up as the convent and the court, and her cell and the room in the palace of her youth. The real architecture of both places has merged together in a cohesive design and has even bend to conform a place of dream.

The changes from one to another happen in seconds and there are some moments when she is in the past on one side of the stage while the nuns are knocking at her door on the other.

With the help of light and theatrical magic, the play can tell the story of her life as a poet, activist, and scholar in the convent and her unfortunate love story in the Palace.

The sins of Sor Juana - Embroidering at the convent

Buried child tells the story of a rural family in a far-off farmhouse in Illinois. The secrets and fragmentation of this nuclear odd family gets reveal by the arrival of Vince, the grandson, coming back home to see his father. Only to find a lonely house that seems more and more like a nightmarish madhouse as the play unfolds. His family does not remember who he is and the secrets, long time buried underneath the floorboards are starting to shake the place up.

The rain has not come, the fields are dry, the house stands in the same place it has been for a long time. The play takes place in this very room, ominous and dark. The connection it has with the outside world is palpable but there is a feeling of being a prisoner. The frames of the house become more visible as the plays moves on from reality and into a state of surrealism. The secrets that were hidden and were rotting underneath get pulled to the surface. The house finally opens up, the scrims that covered the walls disappear and the light of the outside world shines through into the empty house. It rains.

Worked as a Scenic Designer Assistant for the musical Miss You Like Hell, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, music and lyrics by Erin McKeown.

Set design by Milagros Ponce de Leon. I assisted by working on the drafting package and revisions, as well as 3D printing for the model.

Directed by Lisa Portes. Set, Milagros Ponce de León; costumes, Ivania Stack; lighting, Pablo Santiago; sound, Matt Rowe; projections, Thomas Ontiveros; music direction, Walter “Bobby” McCoy; choreography, Breon Arzell. The musical opened at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland.

Drafting Package Example

The Rivals by Richard Sheridan - A Zoom play

Opening November 2020 - University of Central Arkansas

Director: Dr. Kevin Browne

Scenic Designer: Tania Barrenechea

Costume Designer: Eriko Terao

Lighting Designer: Jeffrey Oakley

Sound Designer: Baaquir Salaam

Mrs Malaprop Lodgings

Worked as an Assistant Scenic Designer for the play Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño) by Calderon de la Barca. Set design by Milagros Ponce de Leon. I assisted by working on the drafting package and revisions, model making and assisting during Tech week.

The Play was directed by Hugo Medrano at the Gala Theatre in Washington D.C.

Photo Credit: Jason Speer

Worked as an Assistant Scenic Designer for the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. Set design by Soledad Sanchez. I assisted by building the final model and assisting during Tech week.

The Play was directed by Darcy Evans at the Playhouse Theatre at the Pennsylvania State University.

Photo Credit: Jason Speer

Photo Credit: Jason Speer

Photo Credit: Jason Speer

Photo Credit: Jason Speer