Jack Briggs Design
Email: Jackbriggsy0738@gmail.com
PHONE: 267-217-6754
Email: Jackbriggsy0738@gmail.com
PHONE: 267-217-6754
Scenic Designer and Props Artisan
Prop Carpentry
school chairs
Blood at the root (2022)
A set of school chairs that I unupholstered, refaced with plywood, stained, and sealed for Penn State Centre Stage's 2022 production of Blood at the Root.
Scenic Designer: Rozy Isquith
Director: Steve Broadnax III
Props Manager: Jack Briggs
sweet spire fence
Native Gardens (2022)
A sweet spire fence for PCPA's 2022 summer production of Native Gardens. Frame out of 2x4 with a slit in the middle cut out with a table saw. Lattice bought from Home Depot and cut to size. Stained with Red Wood stain and dressed with foliage and white sweet spires.
Scenic Designer: Jason Bolen
Director: Catalina Maynard
Props Manager: Erin Finnegan
Position: Props Artisan
victrola
The wild party (2021)
A victrola for Penn State Centre Stage's 2021 production of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party.
Box made out of 1/2" plywood, lauan top, and stock molding trim at the bottom. Dressed with a 1/4" Sintra turntable with a shellac record on top, a tonearm made of a bike horn and heat-shaped PVC, and a crank made from a metal rode bent to shape with a handle that was gold leafed and sealed with FEV.
Horn made out of matt board cut out with a found pattern and treated with gold and copper paint, with a light spray of Glossy Wood Tone.
Scenic Designer: Mia Irwin
Director: Alison Morooney
Props Manager: Jay Lasnik
Position: Assistant Props Manager
Fruit Cart
Cabaret (2022)
A fruit cart for Penn State Centre Stage's 2022 production of Cabaret
The top and base of the cart are notty pine with 45 degree mitered corners topped with 3/4" ply wood
The front legs are two pieces of 4x4 whit the back is a man made 4x4 using 3x4" ply and so it can act as the upstage legs as well as the metal post of the cart.
We also added a middle beam and arch as well as two finials to the top of each post. I painted the cart with a watery brown and primes the "metal" areas with white.
The crates were made using 1/2" plywood and pieces of 2x4 cut into a right trangle to hold the crates together at the corners.
The crates were painted with a watery base coat of brown or grey and dry brushed over to get a natural wood texture. I left the staple marks exposed so I could mark them with some black paint later on.
The cart was given some detail witha. chipping paint texture using white glue and paint. Dried with a heat gun that then made it looked cracked. Along with some rust/ dirt detail. Dressed with snuff tins and cans along with burlap and fruit with a false button in the crates.
Scenic Designer: Andre Brandao
Director: Chaz Wellcot
Props Manager: Jay Lasnik
Position: Props Artisan
Amenity Sign
Urinetown (2024)
Public Amenity #9 Signe created for Penn State Centre Stage's production of Urinetown. Frame made out of strips of 2x4 backed with lauan. Arms made from 3/4" plywood and attached with hinges. Letters and #9 were cut out by hand one 1/4" plywood. Painted
Scenic Designer: Alivia Cross
Director: David Kersner
Props Manager: Jack Briggs
Position: Props Manager