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