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Turning Fantasy into Reality: Costume and Puppet Design and Construction for She Kills Monsters

Huffman, Catherine Jenna
http://orcid.org/0009-0005-7669-4226
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713492595745358

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2024, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Theatre.
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen is a production that discusses loss, escapism, queer culture, and self-confidence. The production was the first production performed in the Proscenium Theatre located in the new Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (TFMA) Building on OSU’s main campus. The performances ran from October 26th through November 3rd, 2023. Important themes of the production include escapism through role-play and fantasy, sexual identity and queer culture, and the process of working through grief and loss in a way that honors and remembers those that have passed. In addition to designing the costumes for the production, I was also tasked with designing and constructing puppets for the production, which included a five-headed dragon and a beholder (a monster from Dungeons and Dragons). In my accompanying thesis, I will discuss the play and its historical and cultural importance, the director’s concept, overall design concept, character analysis, a description of the production process and a self-evaluation of the final design.
Rebecca Turk, Dr (Advisor)
Maranda Debusk (Committee Member)
J. Briggs Cormier, Dr (Committee Member)
227 p.
Theater; Theater Studies

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  • Huffman, C. J. (2024). Turning Fantasy into Reality: Costume and Puppet Design and Construction for She Kills Monsters [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713492595745358

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huffman, Catherine. Turning Fantasy into Reality: Costume and Puppet Design and Construction for She Kills Monsters. 2024. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713492595745358.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huffman, Catherine. "Turning Fantasy into Reality: Costume and Puppet Design and Construction for She Kills Monsters." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713492595745358

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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