Romero Lighting Design

Romero Lighting Design

Seevers, Joey

Romero by Xiomara Cornejo is a play about Saint Oscar Romero from El Salvador, who was killed for telling the people to treat immigrants and people in poverty with respect. This show is of extreme relevance to our current time period, and the story continues to become more and more important to tell. This show has an interesting element that I’d never worked with before: giant puppets. On top of that, projections were a big part of the show, another thing I had never worked with before. I decided to use strong angles to accentuate the figures of the large puppets, and strong colors to highlight the mood of the scene. This show takes place both before and after the death of Saint Romero, in both the real world and heaven respectively. To emphasize this, I went for a separate color palette for each location. I used cooler, more blue tones to represent heaven, and warmer, more neutral tones to represent the real world.

2026