Director: Rebekah Maggor / Set Design: Jason Simms, Tim Ostrander
Cornell University, Department of Performing & Media Arts
Framed as an online acting class, Off Campus/On Screen tells the stories of the class members' experiences during Covid & its impact on their lives, some dramatic, some comic. The above set was built to represent one student's cramped family apartment and redressed as another's on-campus apartment.
Dreamer on Campus - as a freshman, Ana imagines what it must be like to be on campus for the first time, a place she's never been.
Office Hours - a companion piece to Dreamer on Campus, Ana tries to navigate the challenges of participating in online classes while living in a one bedroom apartment in the Bronx with her parents & siblings.
Shrine to the Virgin de Guadalupe
Set Walk Thru
Great - a student's phone conversation with her mother hides the more depressed and disheveled reality she's actually experiencing.