Head Over Heels
American University 2023
DIRECTOR: Carl Menninger
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore
Hamline University
Director: Laura Dougherty
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
Sins of Sor Juana
American University 2021
DIRECTOR: Aaron Posner
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore
Legendary Mexican poet Juana Inés de la Cruz writes expressive, sensual verse at the Viceroy's court in the 1600s, a time when it was unfashionable—and sinful—for women to exercise their intellect.
Southern Gothic
Windy City Playhouse 2022
DIRECTOR: David Bell
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore
Assistant Costume Designer: Andres Mota
With just 45 audience members per performance, this immersive production welcomes you to wander about the "set" at your own leisure. Audiences act as a fly on the wall, overseeing all the juicy drama unfold up close.
Director: Nadia Guevera
Costume Design: Sydney Moore
Set Designer: Meghan Raham
This play by Cuban-American writer María Irene Fornés explores the personal struggles of women against gendered stereotypes and societal expectations in a male-dominated world. Set in New England in 1935, Fefu and Her Friends is the story of a group of friends brought together by their loneliness, fears and secrets. With a diverse and multicultural cast, this production utilizes innovative design techniques to highlight interpersonal relationships between characters.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 2023
DIRECTOR: Clancey Yovanovich
Bat Boy: The Musical is an American horror rock musical with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, based on a June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat, dubbed "Bat Boy", who grew up living in a cave.
American University 2020
DIRECTOR: Aaron Posner
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore
The Boy Detective Fails, based on Joe Meno's acclaimed novel, tells the story of Billy Argo, "boy detective." In the twilight of a childhood full of wonder, a broken-hearted Billy faces a mystery he can't comprehend -- the shocking death of his young sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline.
PROLOGUE THEATRE 2019
DIRECTORS: JASON TAMBORINI & NOAH SCHAEFER
Costume Design: Sydney Moore
London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire, and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink?
BY HEIDI SCHRECK
DIRECTED BY JASON TAMBORINI
Costume Design: Sydney Moore
Jan/Feb 2019
Shelley spends her days running a soup kitchen in the Bronx, her sense of purpose inseparable from her religious faith, though both have begun to waver. Emma, a college dropout looking for direction, arrives at the kitchen hoping to find it there. She brings a much needed jolt to the place, but her energy also proves unsettling. Emma’s mix of generosity and self-involvement push Shelley to a breaking point, where she finally asks herself how well she really knows the people she sees every day, how much she can trust them, and what she can and cannot forgive.
RORSHACH THEATRE 2019
DIRECTOR: RICK HAMMERLY
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
James is in Reykjavík for the Northern Lights, but they’re not here. Instead he ventures into the 24-hour dark of the Icelandic winter and finds himself entangled with dangerous strangers, suspicious lovers, malevolent birds and the mysterious Huldufólk. Playwright Steve Yockey, a genre-bending master of suspense, takes us to the end of the Earth to experience a dark, sometimes supernatural world populated with characters who defy expectations at every turn.
KEEGAN THEATRE, 2017
DIRECTED: SUSAN RHEA AND CHRISTINA COAKLEY
Costume Design: Sydney Moore
The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder. A rich and intricate score by Jason Robert Brown, and a book by Alfred Uhry that delves fearlessly into the complexities of early 20th century social relationships in the South. A musical of profound depth and beauty.
CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DIRECTED: JANE FRAZIER
Costume Design: Sydney Moore
Rock of Ages takes you back to the times of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair! This Tony Award -nominated Broadway musical features the hits of bands including Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, and others.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 2019
DIRECTOR: TARA GIORDANO
Costume Designer: Sydney Moore & Barbara Tucker Parker
Nikolai Gogol’s outrageously funny satire of provincial bureaucracy is the perfect play at just the right time for our nation’s capital. A mischievous civil servant is mistaken for an incognito inspector, sending a small town and its corrupt officials into chaos.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 2018
DIRECTOR: ISAIAH WOODEN
With her signature style and eye for the epic, director Mary Zimmerman turns her talents to the spectacular tale of Jason and the Argonauts. In their quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason and his crew encounter a world of dangers—frightening sea monsters, hypnotic water nymphs, wicked kings, and a young sorceress named Medea. Amid these fanciful adventures, Zimmerman ponders the nature of loss, love and leadership.
