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the bed trick

scenic co-designer

production

Artists Repertory Theatre, 2025

Written by Keiko Green

Direction by Luan Schooler

Scenic by Tyler Buswell and Alex Meyer

Lighting by Sophina Flores

Costumes by DeMara Cabrera

Sound by Cullen Elliot and

Saibi Khalsa

Built by Eric Adams

Scenic Painting by Faith Johnson

photos by  Alex Meyer

"The set design itself (by Tyler Buswell and Alex Meyer) is another source of delight. Predominately the dorm room, every wall surface is covered with ephemera, such as a skeleton and a Les Mis hanging, and the beds are plush with comforters and a menagerie of stuffies while strings of colorful lights twinkle overhead, a lifelike décor for kids who are asserting their emerging identities as they also cling to the comforts of childhood. 

 

With Artists Rep’s signature semi-immersive design on its lobby stage, the floor is also covered with a cushy carpet of green grass that reaches beneath the first rows of the theater seats and is strewn with autumn leaves, evoking the heady freedom of a college freshman crossing the quad on the way to their first class."

-Linda Ferguson, Oregon ArtsWatch

"Tyler Buswell and Alex Meyer provide a maximalist set to delight the senses. I've seen Buswell's designs before (Liberace and Liza, e.g.), and his eye for detail cannot be outdone. Color, light, texture -- all so much, and not too much simultaneously."

-Sandra de Helen, Shoutout

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