Chicago Children’s Theatre 2019

Costume Designer Izumi Inaba, Director Wardell Julius Clark, Scenic Design Arnel Sancianco, Props Design Mealah Heidenreich, Lighting Design Jason Lynch, Projection Design Smooch Medina, Show and Press Photographs Courtesy of Chicago Children’s Theatre

The Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963 is a stage adaptation of a book of the same name, about a 9 year old boy named Kenny who’s family takes a road trip to take their misbehaving son Byron to stay with his Grandmother in Birmingham for the summer. Kenny finds more than he bargained for in Birmingham, where tensions of the civil rights movement are boiling. Responsibilities included helping build paperwork, taking notes, assisting with fittings and alterations, as well as coordinating press photo shoot costumes. Focuses on this show included creating a “Whol Pooh” monster(a whirlpool that almost drowns Kenny), making Kenny’s Glasses Breakable, and staying true to the silhouettes and styles of the 60s while making quick changes easy for the characters, including engineering the Whol Pooh hood to stay in place so the actor could see, and helping build the vest that holds “water” fabric as a collaboration with props.