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Carew Theatrics

Theatrical Designer and Technician
based in Western North Carolina
Graduated from UNCSA with a BFA in Scenic Design. https://www.carewtheatrics.com/

08/26/2026

Hadestown teen, Behind the scenes. Committing to an Art Nouveau style allowed for this show to have a consistent visual language. Creating a visual language like this allows the audience to be fully immersed in the storytelling and world that we create. I used the seed of life as a visual theme to represent the pomegranate seeds that Persephone ate. This theme appears on the sconces, the brackets, Persephone's earrings, and the coins that were used as the train tickets to hell. We traced an Art Nouveau scroll on the side of the eleven-foot carousel so that as it turned, the scroll moved. Painting the copper-patinated walls was a very enjoyable process for me.

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08/24/2026

Hadestown Teen, this production was incredible, and I am so glad to have been a part of it. I had a lot of time and a large budget, so I was able to see what I could produce with more resources. I was inspired by Mucha, and so we followed an Art Nouveau aesthetic for this show. Using a faux copper patina, I gave the set a worn, lived-in look. Using my laser cutter, I was able to produce sconces and brackets for this set right from my AutoCAD drafts. I made a large rotating carousel for the center of the stage. I will talk more about the set in my next post, which will be a behind-the-scenes post.

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07/15/2026

W***y Wonka Jr. North Buncombe Youth Theater. The director of this show wanted to go with a disco theme, and so I had lots of fun creating this set. We used PVC pipe that had washed up on the French Broad River from Hurricane Helene as the pipes in W***y Wonka's factory. Transforming the dirty debris from a natural disaster into a colorful theatrical set shows how powerful art truly can be.

07/07/2026

Beetlejuice Jr. This show had an open stage layout. Using rolling set pieces, we filled the stage for various scenes. To add visual interest, I extended the set onto the vomitory walls to bring the world of Beetlejuice into the audience.

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07/06/2026

Arsenic and Old Lace, Behind the Scenes. To create a cohesive vision takes collaboration and versatility of skills. It is beautiful to see a group of people use their individual skill sets collaboratively to produce stunning works of art like this. The theater exemplifies how powerful a group of artists can be.

Starting with a design, the world begins to take shape. The director and I devised a skeletal box set. We did so by removing the walls while leaving the wainscoting trim and stained-glass windows. I created faux stained glass using layers of wood and theatrical gel. I love to hide symbolism in my work. I hid apple blossoms in the stained glass to represent the acrinic that is found in apple seeds. I used green in the trim and stained glass to reference Scheele's green, an infamous green made in the Victorian era that contained high levels of arsenic. Celtic knots in the stained glass represent the aunts' Celtic heritage in the show. I loved working on this show, and it was absolutely hilarious.

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07/03/2026

Arsenic and Old Lace. For this show, the director and I devised a skeletal box set. We did so by removing the walls while leaving the wainscoting trim and stained-glass windows. These faux stained glass windows were marvelous and cast colorful light over the stage and performers. Using a controlled color palette, we were able to create an eerie but whimsical atmosphere. More behind-the-scenes pictures to come.

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04/23/2026

Bloodletting in these Hills. The winner of the 2025 Appalachian Playwriting Festival at the Parkway Playhouse. This was the first set built and designed for this riveting story about Coal Mine unions. I abstracted this space by exposing the framing and dilapidation of the company store that the show takes place in. The company store does not belong to the family that lives inside of it, so abstracting it in this way emphasizes their servitude, instability, and lack of ownership.

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04/21/2026

Smoke on the mountain. Creating this quaint church was enjoyable and uplifting. Painting the walls with a worn-down whitewash treatment gave the whole set a lived-in antique feeling. Using plexiglass, window film, and electrical tape, we created realistic stained glass windows for the church. The show was filled with wonderful music and witty humor.

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04/20/2026

Descendants: The Musical. This show had a fast turnaround, so we reimagined various elements of the Mitilda set to create this show. I created a brick stencil and showed the students how to use it to make a facade brick proscenium. We used fluorescent spray paint to give the set a back-alley feeling, and of course, used proper PPE. The lighting in this show transformed the set in many beautiful ways.

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04/13/2026

Tracing with a projector.

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