ABSTRACT
The materials on the plates vary from show to show. All plates have at least one 8 × 10” photograph of the production and several smaller photographs, showing both full-stage and detail shots of the production. I include on several plates some research materials that influenced the design: a painting that I took colors from or a piece of furniture that we replicated. I also like to show bits of my drafting so you can have a better understanding of the stage and objects on it while looking at the production photographs. The drafting mounted to the portfolio plate is either shrunk down to a smaller scale or is just part of the original drafting, such as a detail of a wall. I have full drafting plates for several shows with me in the portfolio in their original format on 24 × 36” paper, so if someone wants to see what the light plot or ground plan really looked like and what their shop could expect from me, I can show them. I do not carry the draftings for every show in my portfolio, as most people are not that interested in your drafting to see pages and pages of it. I feel it is only necessary to show a couple of shows with all of the draftings to prove that I can produce the necessary drawings for my job.
