But one last mention is required for scenic designer Nikolas Serrano and lighting designer Eric Norbury. We won’t spoil this, but they created mouth-dropping piece of visual stagecraft that has to do with a tall nearly deflowered tree on stage ominously hanging over the entire evening. Yes, it’s what you expect, but there is a moment in the very last minute that is breathtaking in its creative genius.
Bill Hirschman - Florida Theatre On Stage
Kudos as well for the brutally stark scenic design by Nicolas Serrano whose prominent, gnarled oak tree branches hung with moss brought shivery thoughts of nooses. Simple chairs and box podiums, along with cots for beds made for quick and easy scene changes whose atmosphere varied from daylight to dark and bloody through the magic of Eric Norbury’s lighting design and sound design by Dan Donato.
Mindy Leaf - South Florida Theatre Magazine
PARADE
HONG KONG
MISSISSIPPI
Fluid, vibe setting lighting (by Eric Norbury), in Chinese reds and jazz club blues…make the small black box theater fantastically versatile.
“Hong Kong Mississippi” proves what artists can do with modest means but an abundance of passion, pluck and reasons to play.
Naveen Kumar - New York Times
Eric Norbury’s lighting design is a superb variance of hues, blackouts, dimness and brightness, all connoting the actions, emotional tones and the passage of time.
Darryl Reilly - Theaterscene.org
DODI & DIANA
As characters, Diana and Dodi exist for most of the play in voice-over, between scenes, when lighting (by Eric Norbury) and sound design (by Hidenori Nakajo) evoke their visit to Paris in August 1997: the pop of flashbulbs, the sweep of headlights, the roar of engines going too fast.
Laura Collins-Hughes - New York Times
“The production does take excellent advantage of its space and setting, with scenic design (Alexander Woodward) and lighting (Eric Norbury) transporting the singular suite through space and time… and maybe a tunnel in Paris.”
Amanda Marie Miller - Theatrely.com
Eric Norbury’s lighting design also contributes a great deal—flashbulbs of paparazzi that at one point crash through to the only scene featuring the real Dodi and Diana.
Edward Karam - Off Off Online
A BRONX TALE
“The scenic design by Elizabeth Olson and Steven Velasquez and lighting design by Eric Norbury is absolutely brilliant. You are literally transported to the streets of the Bronx.”
Nicholas Pontolillo - BroadwayWorld
ONLY HUMAN
Andrew Moerdyk designed the graph paper-inspired set, which is lit with rock-and-roll neon by Eric Norbury.
David Gordon - Theater Mania