Rumors Set
Designed and built a set for Neil Simon's Rumors
![Close up view of completed set](/assets/img/rumors/stgL-empty.jpg)
My senior year of high school, I had the opportunity to design and build a set for York Suburban Trojan Theatre’s production of Our Town by Neil Simon. The show is set in a grand 1980s mansion, and I was tasked with capturing this aestetic. With input from our other student leaders and faculty directors, I designed the set from the description provided by the script and a number of reference photos we found from other productions of this farce.
After settling on the style and layout, I made a detailed 2D layout of the set in Fusion 360. From there, I expanded the model into 3D to plan the actual construction of the set. From this structural model, I made drawings to use when constructing the set.
![Completed 3D construction model of the set](/assets/img/rumors/drawp1.png)
![2D overview drawing](/assets/img/rumors/drawp2.png)
![Stair stringer drawing](/assets/img/rumors/drawp5.png)
![Balcony drawing with banister spacings](/assets/img/rumors/drawp7.png)
The design work was not done all at once, but overlapped somewhat with construction as the schedule was quite tight. Once deciding on an initial floorplan, I designed the framing for the walls, and from there we began construction. I led a team of 4-6 other students for the construction, working from the plans I generated and parallelizing the process as much as possible to finish before the show. Alongside this construction work, I continued to design the details of the set, laying out the stairs, entry-window, and bannisters so that once the walls were complete we moved on to these details.
![Set viewed from center house](/assets/img/rumors/construction-1.jpg)
![Actors on the completed set](/assets/img/rumors/construction-2.jpg)
Overall, I managed to get the project finished on time and was very satisfied with the results, especially considering it was my first time taking on a project of this magnitude.
![Set viewed from center house](/assets/img/rumors/Square-house.jpg)
![Actors on the completed set](/assets/img/rumors/AllActors.jpg)