Projection Design
The Central Park Five by Anthony Davis
Direction Nataki Garrett Conductor Kazem Abdullah
Scenic Mariana Sanchez
Costume Wanda Walden
Lighting Jason Lynch
Projections Team
Projectionist Ian Anderson-Priddy
Portland Opera 2022│Detroit Opera 2025
“The complex interaction of lighting by Jason Lynch, projections and sound by Rasean Davonté Johnson, and additional sound design by Brian Mohr went smoothly. Newspaper headlines blanketed the stage. Strobe lighting added biting reality to the interrogation scenes. Faces and images of people dissolved slowly like a TV going haywire.” James Bash Classical Voice North America.
Rasean Davonté Johnson’s projection work comes through big-time as a major hero for this production, making viewers feel literally drowned in the headlines of the day. The show’s brilliantly staged centerpiece, the marathon interrogation session, is played out with a live camera onstage in constant motion, capturing the performers’ faces in extreme close-up and displaying them above the stage. It’s a bold, cool choice that creates a visceral, you-are-here intensity. Duante Beddingfield Detroit Free Press
Photos by Christine Dong and Rasean Davonte Johnson