PROPS

The Masks
Masks in I Scream Theater represent the many masks the character wears throughout their childhood and young adulthood. The mask with its eyes scribbled out, used in the Mother’s opening song, “Ice Scream Theater,” represents “Mother.”

Timeline Boxes
16 dated cardboard boxes (and other receptacles) that provide the timeline of I Scream Theater.

Textbook Fans
Symbolic of the early college years that provided her earliest form of wings, these fans hold over 100 individually cut feathers fixed to a base made of 78″ and 12″ records. Used during some performances of the song, “Delightning“.

Oversized Journal/Razor/Straw
Recurring cardboard props—self-expression to self-destruction.

LOPdoll House & Lopdolls
Step inside the LOPdoll House, a surreal embodiment of the mother—her detachable head and cleaning-gloved arms framing the figure, and her “guts,” the dollhouse itself, filled with LOPdolls. Her body represents the drug house from I Scream Theater. Living inside are eerie handmade LOPdolls crafted from trash, paraphernalia, and doll parts. On her back rests the podium for the poem “Storage.” These LOPs (Losers on Parade/Parole) embody the misfits and chaotic characters who populated the world of the artist’s mother. Some dolls live inside vintage and contemporary shadow boxes, forming a haunting, immersive visual universe.

Record Roses
A bouquet of roses created from personal album cover print-outs, as well as her mother’s prescriptions, rehab documents, letters, and journals. 

White Typewriter
Daughter’s voice matures. The write typewriter is a natural growth from the journals, the vehicle to her first book, These Are the Rooms to My Mother’s House.

Pizza Normalcy
One of the most unusual props in I Scream Theater is an actual slice of pizza that was slowly transformed into a stage artifact. Over the course of three months, the slice was sealed with repeated layers of shellac, turning a fragile piece of food into a hardened, glossy object. Both absurd and oddly beautiful, it reflects the show’s blend of humor, decay, and domestic mythology.

RETIRED PROPS

Bird Cage Skirt (2016-2020 – retired)
A floor-length metal bird-cage skirt used during the song, “Luna” to symbolize emotional incarceration (prop building assistant: Mike Goetz)

Starved Puberty Wind-Up Belt (2016-2020 – retired)
A belt with a working minute and hour hand (in the front) and a wind-up key (in the back) used to portray the danger of a developing girl in a drug house.

Record Wings (2016-2020 – retired)
Wings made of vinyl records for the closing song, “Bonecho” to represent the musical education she got from her mother. (prop building assistant: Luke Crowther & Mike Goetz)