Prop Projects

Crazy Quilt

Intimate Apparel, Fall 2025

Designed and built by Maxwell Martin

Show Props Budget of $750

Inspired by both the traditional 'Crazy Quilt' fad of the 1880s, and the prospect of Esther using her quilt as a fabric scrapbook.

Production Team

Director: Sidney Horton

Scenic Designer: Jennifer O'Kelly

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: David Fillmore

Costume Designer: Meredith Magoun

Sound Designer: Benjamin Stickels

Fully assembled, adding backing + batting

Assembling the quilt rows

Pieced together backing

Embroidery Detailing

Openable Money Pocket, hidden in the middle of the quilt

Gelatinous Cube

She Kills Monsters, Spring 2025

Designed and built by Maxwell Martin

Show Props Budget of $1000

Built to 'swallow' our actors with one side, and be able to reveal with another. Needed a team of two to manuever onto the stage. Used PVC Pipe, and a spandex stretch fabric. There was a skirt that covered the actors feet when it was picked up

Production Team

Director: Carly McMinn

Scenic/Projection Designer: James Duke

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: Jeff Childs

Costume Designer: Freddie Haward

Sound Designer: Montavious

Fully " skinned' cube- In the process of figuring out the globs on top.

Draping the fabric over the cube.

After painting, and giving more dimension with the 'globs'

Staff of Suh

She Kills Monsters, Spring 2025

Designed and built by Maxwell Martin

Show Props Budget of $1000

Built to look like a small spine, with a skull on top. Made out of air dry clay, and styrofoam.

Production Team

Director: Carly McMinn

Scenic/Projection Designer: James Duke

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: Jeff Childs

Costume Designer: Freddie Haward

Sound Designer: Montavious

Painting in progress

Beginnings of sculpting the staff.

Painting of the staff to look like obsidian

Dentist Mask

Little Shop of Horrors, Summer 2025

Designed and built by Maxwell Martin

Built in less than 3 hours total, with materials on hand.

Used EVA foam, acrylic tubing, large PVC pipe, and a large plastic tub from the hardware store.

Production Team

Director: Hank Rion

Scenic/Projection Designer: Jason Lee Courson

Properties Supervisor: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: Mason Lopiccilo

Costume Designer: CJ Kelly

Sound Designer: Zach Kramer

Painting in progress

The start of putting the mask together.

Assembling the mask onto the harness/backpack.

Vulture Mask

Class Project, Spring 2025

Designed and built by Maxwell Martin for Costume Crafts I

Sculpted on top of a plaster cast of my face.

Used Worbla finest art as the shell.

Painted using acrylic paints.

Supervised by Prof. Meredith Magoun

Painting in progress

The start of putting the mask together.

Assembling the mask onto the harness/backpack.

Royal Scroll

Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Fall 2025

Used a thick piece of muslin, and used a projector to trace the image, and then paint with black paint.

The start of putting the mask together.

Assembling the mask onto the harness/backpack.

Dentist Chair

Little Shop of Horrors, 2025

Painted and altered barbershop chair by Maxwell Martin

Used a viynl white spray paint to take the chair from black to white, and then used paint to age and make the chair feel 'nasty'. We then added velcro faux leather straps to buckle our actor in with.