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PRESS/AWARDS
TREEFALL (Scenery) Rogue Machine Theatre ______LA WEEKLY AWARD - Set Design ______GARLAND AWARD WINNER - Set Design ______LADCC NOMINEE - Best Set Design It would be impossible to write a review about this play and not mention the set. Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’ Mad Max meets Swiss Family Robinson Tree house design is spectacular. Director John Perrin Flynn utilizes the prodigious talent of award-winning set designer Stephanie Kerley Schwartz to deliver his vision of the looming devastation. Her realization of the mighty age of technology reduced to rubble is a show in itself. Meticulously designed by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz. In its debut production from Rogue Machine, Murray's provocative… four-character drama benefits from.. a spectacularly detailed scenic design (by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz) strewn with the detritus of civilization. Visually and emotionally gripping… Treefall features a remarkably versatile tiered set that allows this story to travel from mountainside streams to dilapidated food cellar and back to the rickety, claustrophobic cabin that the boys call home. ______LA SPLASH The stage setting is imaginative beyond belief, the writing evocative and the ensemble of four actors impeccable.
SONG OF EXTINCTION (Scenery) Moving Arts Theatre ______LA WEEKLY PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR AWARD Everything about this play is done to perfection. The scenic design by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz is totally ingenious: just a few accoutrements to change a setting from an office to a noodle shop, while leaving the dominant setting— Lily's hospital bed, to be brought into play or closed off by a gauze curtain that circles her bed. Further, the stage is flanked on both sides by column-high shrines filled with simple artifacts, photographic portraits, and plants representing Cambodia. And overhead, as the characters speak of Cambodia or Bolivia, projections flash photographs depicting the natural beauty of those countries. Moving Arts world premiere production; visually stunning …scenic designer Stephanie Kerley Schwartz has given Lewis’s words even greater strength than they already have on the written page. Especially striking are scenes in which Lily’s hospital bed becomes a boat traveling down Bolivian waters in Lily’s morphine-induced dreams. Equally stunning are the shadowy white figures of Khim’s family which appear behind translucent glass windows whenever Khim’s memories take him back to the killing fields of Cambodia. ______STAGE VIEW LA The set (Stephanie Kerley Schwartz) is a gorgeous shrine to places and people who have suffered as a result of extinction: Cambodian refugees and the jungles that inhabit the mysteries of a nature left undiscovered. Nicely conceived design elements elevate this production above the ordinary. Stephanie Kerley Schwartz's Asian-influenced scenic design includes an overhead screen allowing multimedia images to represent location changes. Evocative scenic design by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz. E.M. Lewis' haunting drama unfolds on a set bracketed by shadowboxes filled with butterflies, bells, maps, plants, and pictures of Cambodian refugees, presumably dead. Aided by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz's fine set, director Heidi Helen Davis finds beauty in death, staging it as a boat ride into the jungle with showers of butterflies -- a gorgeous counterpoint to Phan's pronouncement that "extinction is a very messy business.
COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY (Scenery and Costume Design) Rogue Machine Theatre ______GARLAND AWARD– Best Costume Design, OVATION NOMINATION – Costumes Under the astute guidance of helmer John Perrin Flynn, an accomplished 18-member ensemble impressively bombards the audience with the hedonistic merriment of these post-Puritan times. The production designs of Stephanie“ Kerley Schwartz (sets and costumes)... greatly contribute to the period veracity of the work. The direction “deftly captures the play's epic sweep, and he's well-served by a large and able cast. Stephanie Kerley Schwartz provides the handsome unit set and the lavish costume designs, which range dizzily from Elizabethan through Restoration to contemporary…… great fun to watch.”
HONOUR (Scenery) Matrix Theatre Stephanie Kerley Schwartz's set crowned with towering book cases is stunning.
STRANGER IN THE KINGDOM (Production and Costume Design) Feature Film A handsome, sober, social drama…looks great on the big screen. “Kingdom has the sort of studio polish one associates with far bigger pictures thanks to the richly textured physical design of Stephanie Kerley Schwartz.” _____________________________________________________________________________________
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