"Daughters (Hijas): A NEW MUSICAL"
Summer 2026 @ FLNWF & WOW Productions
Directed By: Courtney Young Socher
SCENIC DESIGN By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
Some projects leave a lasting mark, and Hijas is undoubtedly one of them.
This production represents the culmination of a four-year journey that began in 2022, when I joined the very first workshop of Hijas as a performer. Since then, I've had the privilege of watching this beautiful new musical grow and evolve, and with it, I've grown as an artist. Returning to the project as its Scenic Designer, Technical Director, and Scenic Charge has been an incredibly full-circle experience and one I'll always treasure.
More than anything, Hijas reminded me that theater is built by people who believe in one another. This process taught me that collaboration and dedication can accomplish things that seem impossible. Every challenge became an opportunity because of the incredible team.
To have been part of Hijas from its earliest workshop to this production has been one of the greatest privileges of my career so far.
I can't wait to see where this journey continues.
"Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches"
SPRING 2026 @ THE KITCHEN THEATER COMPANY
Directed By: Ross Harstadd
SCENIC & Lighting DESIGN By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
For Angels in America, my approach centered on creating a space that could exist simultaneously in reality, memory, and hallucination. The design uses a fragmented architectural environment built from raised platforms, textured brick surfaces, and minimal furniture elements to create an intimate world that constantly shifts between personal spaces and larger emotional landscapes.
THE central bedroom platform became the emotional anchor of the production while surrounding environments expanded and contracted around it, reflecting the instability, isolation, and connection experienced throughout the story.
Lighting played a critical role in shaping emotional perspective. Color, projection, and contrast were used to move the audience between realism and surrealism, transforming the space from grounded moments into dream sequences Or heightened states of imagination.
"Acis & Galatea"
SPRING 2026 @ Ithaca College
Directed By: BEN RoBINSON
SCENIC DESIGN By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
Nature is not passive in this story; it listens, responds, and reflects the internal lives of the characters. The forest, the water, the light — all become extensions of the human experience, mirroring moments of vulnerability, sacrifice, and ascension.
This openness gave me permission as a designer to step away From literal representation and instead focus on evoking the emotional and thematic essence of the world. The written world suggests a space that breathes, shifts, and responds—one that allows transformation to be seen, felt, and heard.
"Fever/Dream"
Fall 2024 @ The Hangar Theater
Directed By: Cynthia Henderson
Scenic Design By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
As scenic designer for Fever Dream by Sheila Callaghan, I worked with the creative team to reinterpret the play’s surreal landscape as a politically charged parallel America. Our design leaned into a heightened world that echoed the atmosphere of the Trump presidency, using visual symbolism to reflect the play’s themes of power, nationalism, and unraveling identity.
Opening the day before Election Day, the production aimed to engage the audience in reflection and conversation, embracing theatre as a vehicle for social awareness and change.
"SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
summer 2024 @ The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
Directed By: Micheal Kaplan
Lighting Design By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
I worked closely with the director to shape a visual world that grows progressively darker as the story unfolds. The design tracks the moral descent of the characters, allowing the stage to become increasingly shadowed and oppressive over time. I leaned heavily into saturated color—particularly red and blues—to heighten moments of violence and revelation.
In key deaths, the lighting plunges the stage into darkness before flooding the space with red, briefly washing over the audience as well, evoking the shock and immediacy of bloodshed and drawing the audience directly into the world of the play.
"THE LIAR"
Spring 2024 @ tHE Kitchen Theater Company
Directed By: Dean Robinson
Scenic & Lighting Design By: Oliver Canales Greenwood
The Liar, takes us on an emotional rollercoaster in which all these characters seem to be stuck on a merry-go-round of love. These characters struggle through mistakes, outrage, dismay, approval and most of all seeking the happiness they want.
The world of The Liar calls for constant movement through space. The characters in this story are always moving through a sea of emotions, strife, and chaos. my reward to chaos, is always a playground.
The set consistED of 3 unitized pieces made up of smaller luggage, trunks, and suitcases, which cOULD be assembled and disassembled in various formats to create new scenes and locations. There wERE also 2 mobile street lamps, that could be moved around the space to configure new environments. I inviteD the comical chaos of the show to also reflect within the scenic elements as much as possible.