The Glass Menagerie
Maples Repertory Theatre
Brandon PT Davis Scenic Design
If all the world is a stage, then is the scenic designer its architect?
No.The scenic designer is its storyteller.Using space, image, and metaphor, scenic design transforms ideas into places where stories can unfold.
Position
Not architecture exactly.
A scenic designer does not build the world. They decide which version of the world the story needs us to see.
- Pressure
- Rooms that make behavior visible.
- Memory
- Spaces that carry what happened before the play begins.
- Transformation
- Designs that let the story change in front of us.
Featured Scenic Design
Places where the story becomes visible.
A curated selection of scenic environments for plays, musicals, Shakespeare, comedy, and theatre for young audiences. Each design begins with the same question: what does this story need the audience to see, feel, and understand before anyone says a word?
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Explore
Different stories ask for different rooms.
Move through the work by the kind of story being staged, from rooms under pressure to worlds built for rhythm, language, comedy, and young audiences.
Profile
Scenic design from San Diego, with room for the world.
Based in San Diego, I design theatrical spaces that make behavior visible: rooms under pressure, places with memory, and environments that shift as the story changes. The portfolio gathers production environments, renderings, and process work from theatre, academic, and collaborative design practice.
Process
Start with the question the room has to answer.
Every production asks something different of its space. Some plays need a room that traps people together. Some need a world that can turn on a dime. Some need a visual metaphor strong enough to carry memory, myth, or music.
Brandon's design process moves from script analysis and research into sketches, models, renderings, drafting, production conversations, and built space. The work is collaborative, practical, and story-first.
01
Research + Dramaturgy
Design choices rooted in text, context, period, metaphor, and the production's central questions.
02
Visualization
Sketches, models, renderings, and drawings that help the team understand atmosphere, scale, movement, and intent.
03
Production Thinking
Scenic ideas shaped for actors, directors, shops, budgets, schedules, venues, and audiences.
Upcoming / In Process
On the drafting table.
Rendering + Experiential Design
Designing beyond the proscenium.
Renderings, drawings, installations, and commercial environments still begin with a scenic question: how should a space guide attention, feeling, memory, and action?
Rendering
The Glass Menagerie
Rendering
Bell, Book, and Candle
Rendering
Urinetown
Rendering
Boeing, Boeing
Rendering
Head Over Heels
Rendering
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Rendering
An Inspector Calls
Rendering
Tomás and the Library Lady
Rendering
Parliament Square
Rendering
Company
Rendering
The Glass Menagerie
Rendering
Bell, Book, and Candle
Rendering
Urinetown
Rendering
Boeing, Boeing
Rendering
Head Over Heels
Rendering
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Rendering
An Inspector Calls
Rendering
Tomás and the Library Lady
Rendering
Parliament Square
Rendering
Company
Articles + Tutorials
Notes from the studio.
Writing on scenic design, rendering workflows, theatrical storytelling, teaching, process, and the ways scenic thinking can move beyond the stage.
These articles and tutorials open the studio process: how designs develop, how renderings communicate, how tools like Vectorworks support the work, and how theatrical space can teach us to look more carefully at the built world.
Portfolio / Contact
Start with the space.
Explore the scenic design archive or start a conversation about a production, collaboration, or upcoming design process.