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Kellen Sapp

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@oudrama ‘25
MSA '19 RA ‘23

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I cannot think of a better way to have ended my final semester than working on this show. This music and text and story and movement were all so beautiful and creating in this environment was an absolute dream

The Sacred Veil
Choreographer: Sophia Smith @sophiasmith.creates
Windsong Chamber Choir Artistic Director: Jeanise Wynn
Costume Design: Landre Sanders @landresanders
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Stage Manager: Mckenna Bowman @_mckenna.marie_
Sound Engineer: Madison Heckelsberg @soundslikemaddi
Photography: Lucas Knapp @knapp.snaps

Also, Noah Jittawait was the best Assistant Lighting Designer/Production Electrician/Programmer/Friend I could have possibly asked for. Working with him on this one was so special, and I truly could not have done it without him standing next to me @jittawait_designs taken in Holmberg Hall by @kellen.sapp_

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Artistic Director & Conductor: Jonathan Shames
Stage Director: Nicole Kenley-Miller
Scenic Design: Elizabeth Elliott @eescenicdesigns
Costume Design: Lloyd Cracknell
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Properties: Gillian Kelley, Abigail Pirtle @gilliankelley2020 @abby.pirtle
Stage Manager: Emily Cashdollar @emily.cashdollar
Associate Stage Managers: JJ Toly, Jebodiah J. Eaton @jjt316
Photography: Travis Caperton, Esther Hodson

This show would have been absolutely impossible without such an incredible Team Lighting. Assistant Lighting Designer Madeline Lewis helped tech go smoothly in my absence. Production Electricians Sophia Smith and Noah Jittawait solved a million and one problems while juggling other shows, and they made that sign look beautiful. Head Electrician Eric Stehl made all the wireless control possible, and is always a stabilizing presence. Programmer Emily Morris was always right there to anticipate needs and figure stuff out with me. I owe the world to them, and also to all of the people who came in on days off and when the weather was bad to push through to get all the set electrics working—love you all so much! @madlew_design @sophiasmith.creates @jittawait_designs @emily.morrisdesign taken in Holmberg Hall by @kellen.sapp_

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Rent
Director: Ashton Byrum @ashtonbyrum
Choreographer: Leslie Kraus @lesliekraus
Scenic Design: Elizabeth Elliott @eescenicdesigns
Costume Design: Landre Sanders @landresanders
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Projection Design: Cara Oates @caraodesigns
Properties: Abby Pirtle, Bronwyn Quinlan, Margot Glaser @abby.pirtle @bronwyn_quinlan
Stage Manager: Emily Cashdollar @emily.cashdollar
Associate Stage Managers: Emily Matthews, Emily Morris @memily.grace @emily.morrisdesign
Photography: Lucas Knapp, Travis Caperton @knapp.snaps

The lighting team on this show was truly incredible. Thank you to Production Electricians Noah Jittawait @jittawait_designs and Madeline Lewis @madlew_design , Programmer Conner Lin @lin_lightingdesign , and Assistant LD Micah Dooley @micahtdooley for anticipating this show’s every need and making it all look so easy taken in Elsie C. Brackett by @kellen.sapp_

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a year ago

Back on my posting-show-photos-far-too-late grind
This show was easily one of the most fun processes I’ve ever been part of—working in the lab with this incredible team and having the best time with this play

Go. Please. Go.
by Emily Feldman
Director: Madison Niederhauser @_madlyneedahouse_
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Stage Manager: Maggie Gibson @maggiie_gibson
Photography: Sophia Armoudian

And thank you to production electrician/programmer Lauren Foster @laurenaveryfost for being the other set of hands to help this all happen! by @kellen.sapp_

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a year ago

Closed out Junior year with CDO! It’s always so exciting to collaborate with @ou_dance and see what beautiful and sometimes-bizarre things we can do. Love love love this show and all the people who made it happen on and off stage!

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma 2024
Clear The Air
Choreographer: Leslie Kraus @lesliekraus
Costume Design: Emily Heskett & Jylian Humber @em_heskett @jylianhumber
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp

Vespers
Choreographer: Ulysses Dove
Staged by: Alfred Dove
Costume Design: Ulysses Dove, executed by Stephanie Orr, Lloyd Cracknell, & Christina Draper
Lighting Design: William Grant III, executed by Kellen Sapp

The Orangery
Choreographer: Roxanne Lyst
Costume Design: Lloyd Cracknell
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp

Stage Managers: Charis Christy & Zaryah Forde @charis.christy @zaryah.forde
Associate SM: McKenna Bowman @_mckenna.marie_
Photography: Travis Caperton & Esther Hodson

And extra thanks to Co-LD Renée Brode, Head Electrician Eric Stehl, Production Electricians Lauren Foster @laurenaveryfost & Madeline Lewis @madlew_design , and Programmers Lucas Knapp @lucasknapp_designs & Ruby Ravsten @rubyravstendesign taken in Reynolds Performing Arts Center by @kellen.sapp_

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2 years ago

Had so much fun diving into the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice for a second time last year with my first opera design!

Orfeo ed Euridice
Composed by: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Artistic Director & Conductor: Jonathan
Shames
Stage Director: Nicole Kenley-Miller
Choreographer: Austin Hartel
Intimacy Director: Dr. Kate Busselle @heartlandintimacydesign
Scenic Design: Erasmo Salinas @rassalinas
Costume Design: Emily Heskett &
Landre Sanders @em_heskett @landresanders
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Stage Manager: Melody Rutherford @melody.rutherford
Associate Stage Manager: Jenna Norton @jenna.norton
Photography: Travis Caperton

And a huge thanks to Production Electrician Eric Stehl and Programmer Zaryah Forde @zaryah.forde taken in Holmberg Hall by @kellen.sapp_

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3 years ago

Back in September, I got to work with the best team ever to open this show, my first University Theatre solo design! Such a fun, thoughtful, and unique project; I truly could not have asked for a better start to junior year.

Everybody by Branden Jacobs Jenkins
Directed by Madison Niederhauser
Assistant Director: Annelise Best @anneliserrose
Lighting Design: Kellen Sapp
Costume Design: Anwen Wenger @anwenw.design
Scenic / Projections Design: Cara Oates @caraodesigns
Sound Design: Richard Sprecker
Prop Design: Abby Pirtle
Stage Manager: Zaryah Forde @zaryah.forde
Associate Stage Manager: Chris Broach
Dramaturgy: Hannah Hester @hhannahhnoelle
Choreography: Mary Grace Humphries @marygracehumphries
Photography: Sophia Armoudian

Also huge thanks to my Production Electrician Kait Stapp @kaitstappdesign and Programmer Noah Jittawait @jittawait_designs , love you both so much <3 taken in Weitzenhoffer Theatre by @kellen.sapp_

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3 years ago

A very merry E-Shop Christmas!

I still need to post Orfeo and Everybody pictures, but I had to share how much I love this family I get to be part of <3 taken in Norman, Oklahoma by @kellen.sapp_

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3 years ago

With the sun beating down, yes I’m on my way—and I can’t keep this smile off my face

Thank you MSA for the most incredible 3 weeks! This community is unmatched and I’m so proud of what we made together. This is love, learning, and a love of learning in its purest sense—thanks for giving us a place to be ourselves taken in University of Missouri by @kellen.sapp_

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Oklahoma Festival Ballet 2023

Only 1 1/2 months late! An absolutely gorgeous show; it’s a privilege to make art with these people

Orphée
Choreography: Boyko Dossev @boykitz
Costume design: Stephanie Orr @costumes_by_stephanie

Antique Epigraphs
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Costume Design: Florence Klotz

Serenade (excerpt)
Choreography: George Balanchine
Costume Design: Karinska

Lighting design: Kellen Sapp
Photos: Drew Lotter, Travis Caperton

Extra thanks to Kait Stapp @kaitlynestapp , the other lighting designer for the festival (both her her pieces we’re amazing), Jenifer Ringer @jeniferringer , the stager for Antique Epigraphs and Serenade, and @ou_dance and @oudrama taken in Elsie C. Brackett by @kellen.sapp_

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3 years ago

Since we head into tech for another dance show this weekend, I thought I should get this up before it’s a full 2 months late. These pieces were all so fun to work on and the songs are still stuck in my head. Can’t wait to do it again next year!!

Young Choreographers’ Showcase 2023

Apotheosis of OCD
Choreographed by Leslie Castillo @theonlylesliec
(photos 4+5)

REM
Choreographed by Lexie Conley @lex.have.a.party
(photos 1+6+7)

Body Language
Choreographed by Autumn Carman @autie_carman
(photos 3+8+9)

It’s All in the Rhythm
Choreographed by Alayna Wong @alayyynawong
(photo 2)

All lighting by me
All costumes by the choreographers
All photos by Travis Caperton 2 dancers slide backwards with arms outstretched in warm sidelight taken in Elsie C. Brackett by @kellen.sapp_

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4 years ago

Since school started today here’s a summer wrap up
(in no particular order except to spread out the pictures of me wearing the exact same watermelon shirt) Kellen, Charlotte, and Ellie in front of a darkened stage at the Muny. Kellen is wearing a dark blue short-sleeved button down patterned with large slices of watermelon. by @kellen.sapp_

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4 years ago