Scenic and Projection Design

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

Direction Henry Godinez

  • Lighting Maria-Cristina Fuste

  • Costume Raquel Adorno

  • Sound Andre Pluess

Scenic Team

  • Associate Alyssa Mohn

  • Props Master Anna Katharine Mantz

Projection Team

  • Associate Michael Commendatore

  • Programming Parker Langvardt

  • Projectionist Mac Vaughey

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre 2022

“The modern setting helps a great deal as does the music and the projections of Cuba making it feel more realistic…The projections/set design by Rasean Davonte Johnson were tremendous. This is a thrust stage that doesn’t truly allow for scenery, but the projections and the lighting (Maria-Christina Fuste) helped make it feel as if we had taken down the fourth wall and were peeking at life, happening during this period.” Alan Bresloff Around the Town Chicago

“Rasean Davonte Johnson’s scenic and projection design has images of 1950s Cuba flickering over scrims that evoke the linen suits and fedoras sported by the characters.” Catey Sullivan Chicago Sun-Times

“The production moves with frightening speed from the brightness of the cabaret (where Raquel Adorno’s costumes highlight feathery glitzy glamour) to the dankness of the prison, both worlds captured equally well by Rasean Davonté Johnson’s scenic and projection designs and María-Christina Fusté’s lighting.” Kerry Reid Chicago Reader

“There’s also the matter of how the Duke, seemingly the play’s benevolent deity throughout, suddenly asks Isabel for her hand in marriage, a further violation coming right before the final lines of the play. Most directors cut that or laugh it off or force Isabel to do a sudden 180-degree turn and reject her vows for a much older man. But Gonzalez uses it as a fuel for a brilliant closing montage, using projections by Rasean Davonté Johnson, that makes the point, in essence, that the Duke, presumably standing in for the affluent ruling Cubans who left for Little Havana, were no better than the Castro crew. With Gonzalez-Cadel wordlessly showing us her character’s thought process, Isabel joins with the former prisoner Barnardine (Debo Balogun) to fight for a different kind of revolution.” Chris Jones Chicago Tribune

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Photos by Rasean Davonte Johnson and Liz Lauren