Workshop Reel — Vol. 01

Prop & Set
Building.

Sawdust, paint, foam, and steel. Every world Tinker stages starts in the shop — drawn, scaled, cut, dressed, and walked through before a single guest crosses the threshold. This is the build floor.

8 Productions

209 Frames

One Workshop

I

Act I

South Carolina Children's Theatre

A Full Season, Built by Hand

An entire season of productions designed, fabricated, and dressed for one of the region's most ambitious children's theatres. Storybook worlds rendered at performance scale — every set built to take a beating from eight shows a week.

  • Full-season fabrication
  • Storybook scenic worlds
  • Performance-grade durability

II

Act II

Cats

Junkyard Cathedral

A weathered cityscape of oversized refuse — every prop scaled up so a feline can perch, hide, prowl. Built to be climbed, lit, and lived in.

  • Oversized junk sculpture
  • Climbable platforms
  • Forced-perspective skyline

III

Act III

Let's Par-Tee

Mini-Golf Fever Dream

Nine custom holes, each its own world — putting greens that double as performance pieces, with sculptural obstacles built from foam, wood, and a lot of paint.

  • Hand-sculpted holes
  • Interactive props
  • Saturated color world

IV

Act IV

One Act

Black Box, Built Loud

A single-room set engineered to flip mood three times in ninety minutes — modular flats, swappable signage, lighting cues baked into the build.

  • Modular flats
  • Quick-change dressing
  • Lighting-integrated build

V

Act V

Adult Summer Camp

Nostalgia on Steroids

Full camp world — cabins, mess hall, bonfire, scoreboard. Built so guests walk in and become eight years old again, but with cocktails.

  • Cabin facades
  • Hand-painted signage
  • Interactive game builds

VI

Act VI

State Theater

House Build, Top to Bottom

A historic theater redressed top to bottom — proscenium pieces, lobby installs, wayfinding, and stage builds that respect the room without disappearing into it.

  • Proscenium dressing
  • Lobby installations
  • Custom wayfinding

VII

Act VII

Christkindlmarkt

An Old-World Holiday Village

A traditional German Christmas market rebuilt as a walk-through world — timber stalls, wreath-wrapped facades, lantern light, and the kind of hand-painted detail that makes a market feel a hundred years old on opening day.

  • Timber market stalls
  • Wreath & lantern dressing
  • Hand-painted signage

VIII

Act VIII

Rudolph

Christmas Town, Real Size

North Pole built at scale — snow houses, Bumble cave, sleigh rigging. Carpentry and paint dialed to feel hand-made rather than mall-Christmas.

  • Snow village build
  • Character set pieces
  • Practical effects rigging