CHIKA SHIMIZU DESIGN

[Adult Swim]

Director: Todd Rohal

Director of Photography: Caleb Heymann

Production Designer: Scott Colquitt

Art Director: Gevin Booth

Set Designer: Chika Shimizu

Yale School of Drama

Director: Cole Lewis

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Caitlin Smith Rapoport

Costume Design: Montana Blanco

Projection Design: Kristen Ferguson

“The scenic design by Chika Shimizu is wide open in the first half, with different spaces provided by small-scale buildings to represent the brick and mortar sturdiness of the town. Later, we get a shop, and a cardboard cut-out car that works quite effectively. There are also plenty of entrances, exits, use of the catwalk, and special effects.”

— Donald Brown, New Haven Review  11/1/2013

World Premiere

By Jaki McCarrick

The Pond Theatre Company

Walkerspace, NY

Director: Colleen Clinton & Lily Dorment

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Caitlin Rapoport

Costume Design: Grier Coleman

Sound Design: Christopher Ross-Ewart 

“The deft, constricted set is by Chika Shimizu.”

- The NY Times By Alexis Soloski

“Chika Shimizu’s set almost reeks of the shite the script continually references.  On the rare occasions the characters step outside of the caravan/mobile home, the audience experiences the suggestion of fresh air.  The details of the living space—  the period television, the orange-crate end-table, and the requisite portrait of JFK — support the authenticity of these digs and place us in time: 2010 in rural Ireland.”

- The Front Row Center by Kathleen Campion

written and directed by K. Lorrel Manning

The Barrow Group, NY

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Daisy Long

Costume Design: Everett Clark

Sound Design: Matto Otto

Photo by Edward Morris 

“ The set for AWAKE deserves special mention. It was simple but effective. My favorite part was the montage of chairs and tables at the top of the show which is then used for the whole play. It was like walking in and seeing a visual artist’s work. Chika Shimizu was successful in creating a wonderful set that at times looks like modern art, but in reality is a simple design that is handled by actors with ease for scene changes. He also added a backdrop that was simple but thoughtful and inviting and added character to every scene.”

- Lighting and Sound America by  David Barbour

CSU Fullerton | Young Theatre

Director: James R. Taulli

Set Design: Chika Shimizu, Lighting Design: Bo Tindell, Costume Design: Bradley Allen Lock

VIETGONE BY QUI NGUYEN

THEATRESQUARED, AR

DIRECTOR: Kholoud Sawaf

SET: Chika Shimizu

PROJECTION: Joey Moro

LIGHTING: Emily Clarkson

COSTUME: Ruby Kemph

SOUND: Michael Prieto

Yale School of Drama

Iseman Theatre

Director: Jesica Holt

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting: Elizabeth Mak

Costume: Seth Bodie

The Producer's Club

The Joust Theatre Company

Director: Mayde Alpi

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Costume Design: Clare Murphy

Lighting Design: Stephanie Kay Grarcia

Sound Design: Andrew Carr

Written by Jonathan Tolins

Bucks County Playhouse, PA

Director: Sarna Lapine

Set and Projection Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Gina Scherr  

“Chika Shimizu designed both the set – a modest collection of furniture – and the projections that appear on the back wall. Those projections are a good match for the script’s genial wit, using whimsical artwork that imagines the underground mall as a stylish place for Streisand to escape her hordes of devoted fans.”

—  Donald Brown, DC Metro Theatre Arts  11/11/2016

Written by Geun-Hyung Park

Yale Cabaret

Director: Kee-Yoon Nahm

Set & Costume: Chika Shimizu

Lighting: Carolina Ortiz

Projection: Ni Wen

“The costumes and set by Chika Shimizu combine to form what we might call an aesthetic of the second-hand. The TV console is an ungraceful embarrassment that might be salvageable as a kitschy keepsake. And the same applies to the vaguely hipsterish look of First Son’s jacket and pants and the economy-store eroticism of his wife’s costume.”

— Donald Brown, New Haven Review  10/1/2014

ROMULUS THE GREAT

By Friedrich Dürrrenmatt

Yangtze Repertory Theatre, NY

Directed by Chongren Fan

Set by Chika Shimizu

Costume by Karen Boyer

Lighting by Yi-Chung Chen

Sound by Joseph Wolfslau

Movement by Rourou Ye

Directed by Jessi D Hill

The Barrow Group, NY

Magic Window Productions

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Daisy Long

Costume Design: Deshon Elem Delta

Sound Design: Matto Otto

CSU Fullerton

Young Theatre

 Director: Kari Hayter

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: AmyAnne Duncan

Costume Design: Leeda Duong

by ANTON CHEKHOV

Off-Broadway

Access Theatre

Instigators company

Adaptation by Fergus Scully and Taylor Petracek

Directed by Lillian Meredith

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design: Caitlin Smith Rapaport

Costume Design: Lisa Renee Jordan

Sound and Music by Sylvana Joyce

"The creativity of the team becomes most apparent in their making full use of practical effects—Chika Shimizu’s atmospheric set becomes immersive with limited materials—and the result is transformative."

—  Ran Xia, Theatre Is Easy  6/14/17

Fall Dance Theatre 2008

CSU Fullerton

Little Theatre

Choreography: Melissa Ciuski

Set: Chika Shimizu

Lighting: Susan Hallman

Costume: Morgan Carroll & Marc Martinez

Written by  Kieron Barry

NYC Premiere

Theatre 511

Directed by Tana Sirois

Original Music by Jonathan Sanford

Set Design by Chika Shimizu

Lighting Design by David Shocket

Costume Design by Beth Morgan

Photography by George McClintock

"Director Tana Sirois stages the play with an appropriately frosty elegance. Chika Shimizu's minimalist set features just a central block that unfolds into multiple chic European interiors. "

—  Zachary Stewart, Theatre Mania  10/17/17

Yale Cabaret

Adapted, Translated, and directed by Ankur Sharma

Set Design: Chika Shimizu

Costume: Grier Coleman

Lighting: Joey Moro, Projection

Davonte Johnson

“And the Cab’s production is quite willing to beguile us with lovely costumes (Grier Coleman), a distinctive, eye-enticing set (Chika Shimizu and Izmir Ickbal) with rich projections (Davonte Johnson), and evocative choreography (Anita Shastri) to create a space of aesthetic contemplation. Sharma and company then place before us the very qualities of beauty and poise that, in the stories, become the only purpose for women whose looks make their fates, as in the story of the homely woman punished cruelly for having a crush on a god, or in the story of girls—in modern India—who reject suitors and are disfigured or killed in retaliation.”

— Donald Brown, New Haven Review  11/15/2014

by Samuel Beckett

Yale Master Class Project

by Henrik Ibsen

Yale Final Project

Set Model

Henrik Ibsen

Yale project

Costume Sketch

by Puccini

Yale Thesis Project

Set Model

Opera | Puccini

Costume Sketch

Yale Master Class Project

Set Model/ Sktech

Opera | Puccini  

Costume Sketch

by Arthur Miller

Yale Master Class Project

Set Model

Arthur Miller

Costume Sketch

Yale Design Project

Set Model

Opera

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Costume Sketch

Yale Design Project

Yale Master Class Project

Yale Design Project

Yale Design Project

Yale Design Project

MUSICAL

sketch

Spring Dance Theatre 2009

CSU Fullerton

Little Theatre

Choreography: Bradley Beakes

 Lighting: Debra Lockwood

Costume: Monica French & Debbie Dufour