Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

• Show Your Work!
• From Page to Stage: How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images
• People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
• The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together
• QLab 4: Projects in Video, Audio, and Lighting Control
• The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue (Theatre Arts Book)
• Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design: A Process Based Syllabus in Costumes, Scenery, and Lighting
• Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup
• Scene Design: A Guide to the Stage
• Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays