Role: Co-Media Designer/ Jake Pinholster

Director: Megan Weaver

Venue: The Galvin Playhouse, ASU

Summary: Nation is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel of the same name set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s. A young boy named Mau is the sole survivor of a Tsunami that destroys all the indigenous people of his island who soon discovers a young English girl shipwrecked on the island from the same storm. Together the fashion a new nation with various indigenous people from other islands looking for refuge. The set for the production featured two large hung from the fly system that could be flown in at various heights to indicate changes in scene. Design for the production involved compositing live shadow puppetry into projections and the development of an original symbolic lexicon of icons representing the religious system of the island.