stage projections for 

The Sound of Music - Yale University 

April, 2026





The Sound of Music straddles fiction and reality. On the one hand: a maximalist score and fantastical love story –– goatherds, singing governesses, and mystical mountains filled with song. On the other: a true story of 20th century Austrian politics, a grieving widower, and Nazis. Maria enters this dark, serious world and transforms it to a joyous one. I wanted my graphic projections to transform our space into one that could support both of these worlds (much like our protagonist). I created mathematical pen sketches, sensitive to the period architecture of the 1860s Villa Trapp and the benedictine Nonnberg Abbey. I also washed these images in loose water color, and layered bits of ripped sheet music -- reminders of the storybook nature of this semi-fictional family. And of course, the mountains, changing with the times of day, can be spotted in every frame. I wanted to make visible the utter beauty of this musical and its songs that are big enough to fill domes many times higher than ours. I hope my art brings you to hills where your heart beats like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake...

Maria’s bedroom window 
mother Abbess’s office  
watch the abbey windows change from night to day
The Dome, our circular, intimate venue 



See the music,
hear the image.


(a rip-off of
George Balenchine’s
“See the music, hear the dance.”)

  
Fun Home 
Select stage projections for Fun Home, staged in Yale University’s Off-Broadway Theater. Illustrations are based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel and inspired by Jeanine Tesori’s score.  
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