Lacey Erb
Projection Designer — IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER
Lacey Erb is a freelance projection and lighting designer. Her recent design work has been seen at La Mama, NY; The York Theatre, NY; Meta-Phys Ed at IRT Theatre, NY; SXSW Interactive, TX; Spinning Dot Theatre/Duderstadt Center, MI; and Princeton University, NJ. As an associate designer, she has worked with Andrew Lazarow (Head Over Heels, Broadway); Sven Ortel (Ever After, Alliance Theatre, GA; and Life After, Old Globe Theatre, CA); and David Bengali (We Live in Cairo, America Repertory Theatre, MA). Lacey’s projection and lighting design for There are Big Voices Where the Universe Ends was exhibited at the 2017 World Stage Design Expo in Taipei, Taiwan as part the world-wide Emerging Designers Exhibition.
Originally from Boulder, CO, Lacey completed her MFA in Integrated Media from University of Texas at Austin, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER was directed by Robert Ramirez and Charles O. Anderson for UTA Theatre in September 2016.
In our production, we looked closely at Mc Craney’s language, not just spoken word but the language of movement and gesture. The language of generations and of tradition, and of how movement and voice can be ritual. These things, often felt and not seen, send physical and emotional ripples into the world around us. By adding a movement chorus to this production, ritual becomes palpable. As stated by director Charles O. Anderson: “Through movement, we speak Yoruba, Creole, Patois, we speak the African tongues of generations.” Through physical embodiment of history, a glimpse of these energetic undercurrents, we see how it surrounds and changes Oya and the other characters.
