Gregorio de Masi
Gregorio is one of those amazingly talented people who is so good at what he does you just can’t fathom why he isn’t already amazingly famous. Hired by Atmostheater to design the costumes and posters for the same production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that I was hired to direct for them in 2007, I walked out of that production knowing I needed to snag Greg for my own, above and beyond anything else. Happily, he readily agreed to sign on to create the postcards and press photos for the workshop of Mathew 33:06, engineering a haunting image of morgue doors floating in darkness, one door gapingly, achingly open. It was such an arresting vision that my favorite thing to do after distributing fliers was to watch people stop dead in their tracks as they walked by- effective advertising at work. His designs for Midsummer were equally as enchanting, whether he was putting together woodland faeries or constructing the painstakingly accurate period wear for the mortals (we did the show in the Empire Era, and the results were elegant beyond expectations), and his poster design was so startling I ended up making a permanent fixture of one of the ideas we didn’t use because, well, it was just really good art, and there is nothing better than really good art made by a really good guy.
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