Scenic Designers' Roundtable: Images of Magnificence

			Over the course of four weeks, scenic designer David Gallo will pose one question each week to a group of some of the top designers working in theatre and entertainment today. The hope is to scratch beneath the surface to glean some insights into these working artists’ artistic processes. SCENIC DESIGNERS’ ROUNDTABLE: IMAGES OF MAGNIFICENCE The great American designer Robert Edmund Jones challenged the youth to “keep in your souls some images of magnificence”. What have you done or seen lately that filled your soul with magnificence? - David Gallo, Performing Arts / Design Contributing Editor

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Scenic Designers' Roundtable: The Moment of Artistic Power

			Over the course of four weeks, scenic designer David Gallo will pose one question each week to a group of some of the top designers working in theatre and entertainment today. The hope is to scratch beneath the surface to glean some insights into these working artists’ artistic processes. SCENIC DESIGNERS’ ROUNDTABLE: THE MOMENT OF ARTISTIC POWER My favorite part of the process is when I am in my studio late at night after the first meeting with the director. The music is blasting and I am faced with a blank piece of paper, some Black Warrior #3 pencils, my Google-Fu, and a script (hopefully). This is when I feel the most powerful. At this point everything is possible to me. My question is: at what point in your particular process do you feel the most artistically powerful? And what, over time, might diminish that power? - David Gallo, Performing Arts / Design Contributing Editor

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Scenic Designers' Roundtable: Whom Do You Serve?

			Over the course of four weeks, scenic designer David Gallo will pose one question each week to a group of some of the top designers working in theatre and entertainment today. The hope is to scratch beneath the surface to glean some insights into these working artists’ artistic processes. SCENIC DESIGNERS’ ROUNDTABLE: WHOM DO YOU SERVE? While realizing the world of a play, whom do you feel that you ultimately serve? Is it the playwright, the director, or the producer? And do you serve a different master when you are working on a new play versus a revival or perhaps a tried and true classic? - David Gallo, Performing Arts / Design Contributing Editor

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Scenic Designers' Roundtable: The Art of Design

			Over the course of four weeks, scenic designer David Gallo will pose one question each week to a group of some of the top designers working in theatre and entertainment today. The hope is to scratch beneath the surface to glean some insights into these working artists’ artistic processes. SCENIC DESIGNERS’ ROUNDTABLE: THE ART OF DESIGN When David Mitchell was asked whether or not he defined himself as an artist, he replied, “To earn a living in this business—in order to survive—you must do a great variety of things. I don’t feel I have the luxury of taking a philosophical stance. Although I take what I do very seriously. Basically, it’s an interpretive and derivative art rather than a truly original or seminal one.” Do you have a personal philosophy on the “art” of being a scenic designer? - David Gallo, Performing Arts / Design Contributing Editor

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