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Gloria (Profile Theatre) Costume Desginer

How do we shape & code our bodies using specific items of clothing signifying tribe and class? And why do we do this, consciously or subconsciously, in the name of Ambition? In this biting rendition of Branden Jacobs - Jenkin’s Gloria at Profile Theatre in January 2022, costume explores how we blend in or stand out in color, style, signs, and even patterns in order to attract the right crowd or appear unassuming intentionally (camouflaged).

Directed by Josh Hecht; Scenic Design by Robin Vest; Lighting Design by Kristeen Willis; Sound Design by Matt Wiens

Production Photos by David Kinder

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Galileo (The Industry) Costume Designer

SEPTEMBER 2017

TRANSLATED & DIRECTED BY YUVAL SHARON ; COMPOSER: ANDY AKIHO ; SCENIC DESIGNER: LIZ GLYNN ; LIGHTING DESIGNER: PABLO SANTIAGO-BRANDWEIN ; COSTUME DESIGNER: JAYMEE NGERNWICHIT

In The Industry’s GALILEO, director Yuval Sharon radically re-imagines Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo around an enormous fire sculpture by artist Liz Glynn, with original music by composer Andy Akiho. A cast of singers, actors dancers, and a full orchestra with Taiko drummers, will bring to life Galileo’s story in a carnivalesque atmosphere.

The action of the play follows the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei and his conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Brecht wrote the play in exile, including an English version that premiered in Los Angeles in 1947. In GALILEO, his tragic story becomes an elemental parable about the freedom of thought, despairing and hopeful, timeless and more timely than ever.

In September The Industry presented two concert workshop performances of GALILEO at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. This live concert version brought together the orchestra, cast, and set elements to give a preview of the full production.

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Twelfth Night (Old Globe) Costume Designer

NOVEMBER 2017

TWELFTH NIGHT FOR THE OLD GLOBE'S 'GLOBE FOR ALL' SET IN EARLY TO LATE 1990S DURING THE HEIGHT OF MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE USA. VIOLA AND SEBASTIAN ARE UNWITTING UPPER MIDDLE CLASS MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THIS TALE OF FINDING ONE'S IDENTITIES. ORSINO IS A RECORD LABEL EXEC MOGUL, FESTE IS A RIVERS CUOMO ALTERNATIVE ROCK JESTER, OLIVIA IS A LA JOLLA HEIRESS, AND UNCLE TOBY IS HUNTER S. THOMPSON. FEATURING ORIGINAL LIVE MUSIC AND SOME OF SAN DIEGO'S BEST CONTEMPORARY ACTORS: AMANDA ARBUES, JENNIFER PAREDES, & MIKE SEARS.

DIRECTOR: JERRY RUIZ ; SCENIC DESIGNER: KRISTEN FLORES ; COSTUME DESIGNER: JAYMEE NGERNWICHIT

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Rhinoceros (2015) UCSD SHANK THEATRE

Directed by Will Deftletsen

Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Pictures by Jim Carmody & Manny Rotenberg

Native Son (2016) UCSD POTIKER THEATRE

Written by: Nambi E. Kelley

Directed by: Casey Stangl

Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Scenic Designer: Justin Humphres, Lighting Designer: Chao-Yu Tsai, Photos by Jim Carmody and Manny Rotenberg

Though it May Shift

Choreographer: Erin Tracy

Costume & Projection Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Through simple gestures with media (1 manual overhead projector, 2 projectors, 1 live feed camera) dancers used their costumes and their bodies to interact with media. (i.e. they have agency to affect the iterations of images from a curated library of transparent images on the overhead projector, the media sometimes bled onto their seemingly flat costumes built meticulously for the individual person inhabiting the costumes, the dancers used their costumes as projection surfaces, the dancers used a live streaming camera as a kino-eye and metaphor for multiplicity etc.) Ultimately, this project is about the struggles of staying centered at ‘home’ even when even that shifts as time goes by and how to find your ‘home’ again within yourself.

Scenic Designer: Charlie Jicha, Lighting Designer: Chao-Yu Tsai, Musicians: Kristopher Apple, Hillary Young, Kyle Adam Blair

All Photos by Jim Carmody

Heaven on Earth (Sledgehammer Theatre)

Directed by Scott Feldsher

Scenic Designer: Robert Brill

Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Lighting Designers: Joel Britt & Brandon Rosen

Molière/Feydeau

Director: Jim Carmody

Scenic Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Alternatively entitled "Madness, Marriage, Money, and Mayhem" this rep production consists of two plays of Molière and Feydeau:

Doctor For A Day (Le médecin malgré lui, 1666)

Feydeau, Baby Can’t Go Potty (On purge bébé, 1910)

After reading the farce scripts I envisioned a playful space Inspired by the Jacques Tati’s film Mon Oncle. I was interested in using light and slightly washed Rococo colored canvas in a Rothko style to create a playful, and transformative space for the larger than life characters to inhabit. This minimal, abstract representation of indoors/outdoors & human dwelling was essential to focusing on the plots and human relationships of these rep farces.

Becoming Henry (2012)

Directed by: Anna Goodman-Herrick

Costumes and Production Design: Jaymee Ngernwichit

501(c)3 independent film supported by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and private sponsors.

http://becominghenry.com/

Becoming Henry - Vimeo Link

Ruins True (World Premiere)

Director: Gabor Tompa

Set/Projection Designer: Ian Wallace

Costume Designer: Jaymee Ngernwichit

Composer: Shahrokh Yadegari

Performers/Choreographers: Liam Clancy, Mary Reich, and Yolande Snaith

Based on Lessness by Samuel Beckett, Ruins True is a collaborative theatre and dance piece workshopped at the Sushi Performing Art Space in San Diego in 2010. It went on to tour through the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Theatre and the Festival D'Avignon in France.

Sexual Selection

Costume Designed by Jaymee Ngernwichit

Directed by Kim Rubenstein and Yolande Snaith, Sexual Selection (2009) is an original production that juxtaposes how humans romantically interact through the Darwinian lens of evolution and survival of the fittest through visual and sexual attributes.

Through analyzing Darwin's Descent of Man while observing throughout history what people do to become attractive to the object of their desire, Sexual Selection challenged me to create a motley crew of characters with clever attributes that played with gender, stereotypes, and presumption.