"Floyd Collins" Musical

This days at Lincoln Center you can see posters with my illustration for the Lincoln Center Theater's musical Floyd Collins. The poster is art directed by Nicky Lindeman at SpotCo.

You can read more about this project here.

 

Poster for "Flyod Collins" Musical at LTC

My artwork for Floyd Collins, a new musical at Lincoln Center Theater.

The poster design and art are directed by Nicky Lindeman at Spotco. Since the play is based on an event that happened in 1925, the art director wanted the poster to have the look of the posters from that time.

Floyd Collins had its world premiere at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia in 1994. It was followed by the off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons in 1996 where it won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. Due to its enduring cast recording, the musical has achieved a devoted following over the years.  This Lincoln Center Theater production will mark the long-awaited Broadway debut of this modern-day classic.

Floyd Collins is based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes the attraction when he gets trapped 200 feet underground. Alone but for sporadic contact with the outside world, including his brother Homer, Floyd fights for his sanity – and, ultimately, his life – as the rescue effort above explodes into the first genuine media circus. Reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, fueling the hysteria and manipulating the nation into holding its collective breath. Floyd Collins, featuring a haunting exploration of the American dream by Tina Landau and a glorious folk and bluegrass-inspired score by Adam Guettel, tells the transcendent tale of a true American dreamer.

You can see more of my theatre posters here.

My Teeth in the Theatre

My artwork on the posters and merchandise of Teeth—a new play at New World Stages, NYC. The poster is art directed by Nicky Lindeman at Spotco.

Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands—when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs, Teeth, based on the cult classic film of the same name, is a fierce, rapturous and savagely entertaining new musical crackling with irrepressible desire and ancient rage—a dark comedy conjuring the legend of one girl whose sexual curse is also her salvation. 

You can see more images of the project here.

 

Graphis Poster Annual Awards

Graphis Poster 2024 competition just announced the winners of their competition. I am glad to share with you that six of my theater posters received the Graphis Awards and they will be included in Graphis Poster 2024 book. One of the posters received the prestigious Platinum award, three received Silver awards, and two received Honorable Mention. 

You can see more images and read about these posters here.

My Posters Featured on GraphisBlog

Today, the prestigious Graphis published on their GraphisBlog an article about my poster designs for the plays "Oedipus" and "Titus Andronicus" in production with JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia.

You can read the article here.

The article also featured some of my other theater posters, including my recent posters for Lincoln Center Theater plays, "The Coast Starlight" and "The Skin of Our Teeth". I designed these two posters in collaboration with Nicky Lindeman from the advertising agency SpotCo.

You can see more of my poster designs here.

 

Poster for "The Coast Starlight"

My poster Illustration for the play The Coast Starlight by Keith Bunin, directed by Tyne Rafaeli in production at Lincoln Center Theater.

The poster design and art are directed by Nicky Lindeman of SpotCo.

"In Keith Bunin's new play, a young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble boards The Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travellers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has roughly one thousand miles to figure out a way forward. The Coast Starlight is a smart, funny, and compassionate story about our capacity for invention and re-invention when life goes off the rails."

 

 

"The Skin of Our Teeth" Poster Design

Here is my new poster for the play The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz in production at Lincoln Center Theater.

The poster was created in collaboration with Nicky Lindeman, creative director at SpotCo.

"In 1942, just four years after Our Town, Thornton Wilder brought a very different take on the American family to Broadway. And yet, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH was in some ways very similar to its predecessor: both won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; both break the fourth wall; both are about family and the resilience of the human condition; both mix the comic with the bittersweet; and both are, in different ways, ultimately hopeful!

But where Our Town is set in one time and place in the imagined past, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH does not sit still. It catapults us forward and back in time and place, spanning 5000 years and no time at all. It follows the Antrobus family as they confront the challenges of nothing less than the apocalypse, dinosaurs, war, a woolly mammoth, the Ice Age and raising two kids in suburban Excelsior, New Jersey. It is mayhem, sometimes absurd and funny and sometimes deeply moving, but it is always real."

Despite being written in 1942, it seems that the play is very appropriate for the time that we are living in. You can see more of my work here.