MEET THE ARTISTS: David M. Barber (Scenic Design)
CATF is thrilled to welcome back to Shepherdstown this summer designer David M. Barber. You’ll remember David’s work from last year if you saw CAPTORS by Evan M. Wiener and IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP by Neil LaBute. Both shows were presented in repertory on the Frank Center Stage and were directed by Producing Director Ed Herendeen.
This season, David will be designing MODERN TERRORISM, OR THEY WHO WANT TO KILL US by Jon Kern and SCOTT AND HEM IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH by Mark St. Germain–the two plays that will open the new Stanley C. and Shirley A. Marinoff Theater in the Center for Contemporary Arts II–as well as H2O by Jane Martin in CCA 112.
This is what Ed has to say about working with David Barber:
“As this is our second year of working together, David and I have an established vocabulary. He’s collaborative with me along with the entire design and production team, willing to ask challenging, probing questions of the play and its direction. He provides helpful and thoughtful research and, most importantly to me, he begins the process by being true to the given circumstances the playwright provides. He’s loyal to the text, the script; his research to the architecture, time/place, and period, etc, of the world of the play. As a director, I want our creative team to take risks and provide me with choices. David does both. With Scott and Hem, his research has been really invaluable since the play is set in a real time (1937) and place (the resort villa, Garden of Allah). He’s been very sensitive to the needs of the play. And with Modern Terrorism, it’s been exciting to see his ideas of using the new theater’s aesthetic to create both realism and spectacle. We explored how this play covers the inside and outside world, while maintaining a claustrophobic atmosphere. Our audience will be quite struck by how he’s transformed the Marinoff Theater into a 1930s villa and then into a Brooklyn apartment.”
David M. Barber is a designer of scenery and clothing for theatre, television, film and the special events world. He brings expertise to the collaborative table that spans geographically from Texas to Toronton…and experientially from studio art to performance and back again.
READ HIS FULL BIO.
Visit David’s website here.
Renderings follow from David’s set designs for CATF 2013 (Copywright: David M. Barber, 2013):
SCOTT AND HEM IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Written and directed by Mark St. Germain
Stanley C. and Shirley A. Marinoff Theater
MODERN TERRORISM,
OR THEY WHO WANT TO KILL US AND HOW WE LEARN TO LOVE THEM
by Jon Kern. Directed by Ed Herendeen
Stanley C. and Shirley A. Marinoff Theater
