Courtney Dusenberry
Scenic Artist Props Designer
PROPS
LADIES
Boston Court Pasadena: World Premiere
Props Designer
THE JUDAS KISS
Boston Court Pasadena
Props Designer
photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging
photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging
Process Photo, Book stack step unit (before the distress painted to match each other in look.)
photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging
THE TEMPEST
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Props Master
Full Cast Photo photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging.
Show Photo photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging.
Process Photo 3/4 of the truck full on returns day (Courtney pictured)
Full Cast Photo photo credit: Craig T. Mathew, Mathew Imaging.
EUROPERAS I & II
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Props Master
photo credit: Francois-Pierre Couture
photo credit: Francois-Pierre Couture
Bursting Pomegranate Process Photo 6, 14oz-16oz squib was ideal for effect.
photo credit: Francois-Pierre Couture
EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED
World Premiere at The Boston Court Pasadena.
Props Designer
Bones book for Libro the Dog
"What Goes Around" webseries on sexual education
prop manual for the magic clocks in the show
Bones book for Libro the Dog
Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater
Various props for live shows and webisodes as part of Kaiser's Educational Theater program. (See picture descriptions for more show info)
Assistant Technical Director/Propmaker
finished product (before aging/weathering)
finished product (before aging/weathering)
clamping glued leatherettes to books
finished product (before aging/weathering)
DELUSION: LIES WITHIN
VR series
Propmaker
A HOME AT THE ZOO
Edward Albee's divisive study of human nature as beasts or refined. Mounted in the black box space at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in association with Deaf West.
Props Master
Multiple skulls, eaten over years by a cave beast
"Rock" skull
"Rock" skull, reveal
Multiple skulls, eaten over years by a cave beast
Ballad of John St. George
Proof of Concept for Feature.
Propmaker / Production Design
Stained and grained Walnut, from Oak/Pecan
Rocking chair, finished
Stained and grained Walnut, from Oak/Pecan
CITY OF CONVERSATION
Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts
Propmaker / Scenic Artist
with labels cleared
Before "clearing" treatment
After treatment, screen ready
with labels cleared
PUSHIN' LITTER
Short film about a hit man in the most unlikely of locations.
Propmaker / Production Design / Producer
Full Set Photo: Jim Cox
Main Counter Arye Gross and Eddie Kay Thomas Photo: Jim Cox
Process Photo Some labeled boxes ...and about a third of the sticker backings for the many hand placed labels.
Full Set Photo: Jim Cox
PARFUMERIE
This was the main stage theatrical debut for The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Peforming Arts and required more than 200 square feet of shelving to be filled with individual art deco period perfume bottles, shampoo bottles and other sundries and toilettries. The play is set in Hungary 1938 and is the original storyline of "boy and girl hate each other in person, but love each other in writing."
Assistant Props Supervisor
Props Supervisor: Kirk Graves
paint on plywood
paint on plywood
paint on plywood
SPAMALOT
Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
Propmaker / Scenic Artist
Dressing Room Placards
Police sign progress photo
Mustard Glade Police sign
Dressing Room Placards
MISS MUSTARD GLADE
This Subway sponsored webseires required some pageantry in the set decoration and a special scenic project for the establishing sign of the local Mustard Glade Police Station.
Lock Mock Up: checking for size and aesthetic construction
Lock Mock Up: altered for locket size and aesthetics; first mock up with metal finish.
Soledad's Map
Lock Mock Up: checking for size and aesthetic construction
FAR IS THE MYSTERY
For this cerebral, late 18th century western, I had to create a strangely specific props: a magical lock that opens with various/unusual keys, like a Locket. I also had to create a few period and/or character specific props: chewing gum and a map.
Protein bar
1st Place Ribbon
Billy's fake love letters to the other runners from "Briana."
Protein bar
BILLY IN MOTION
For this epically quirky comedy, the props (such as the villain's protein bar, the love letters, and the 1st place medal) had to match the over-the-top and surreal conflict facing the hungry champion in Billy In Motion.