Hanah Toyoda's portfolio sample summarizes several of her theater design projects including set designs for productions of Shel Silverstein and Bedtime Stories featuring painted walls and props, mechanizing a horse for Young Frankenstein: The Musical, and makeup designs such as severed heads for Equivocation and zombie prosthetics. The portfolio also includes examples of her artwork outside of theater such as commissions and skills development.

1. Hanah Toyoda
Portfolio Sample

2. An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein
Set design and painting, poster design
Set in a small black box space
An alleyway with discarded
storybook characters. The walls
and boxes were painted to be
worn and warped Silverstein
illustrations. Painting was done
with shop paints on production
flats. Poster
In-
progress
painting
Wall

3. Bedtime Stories
Scenic painting, poster
design Poster
Set in a black box space
Sloped flats painted to look like a bed.
Inspiration from Georgia O’Keefe paintings.

4. Young Frankenstein: The Musical!
Horse Painter, Poster
designer
To keep with the
show’s steampunk
aesthetic, I was
commissioned to
mechanize this
white horse.
My poster design
for the show

5. Selected Makeup
Designs

6. Creating a severed
head
Painting prosthetics
for Halloween
For a production of
Equivocation by Bill Cain,
I created and painted two
severed heads
Commissioned to paint zombie
prosthetics used for a
photoshoot at a haunted corn
maze, subsequently used in
the corn maze as well

7. Coraline
Makeup and mask design , construction, and painting
Set in a large
proscenium
theatre.
Here are some
examples of the
mask work I did
for the show.

8. Examples of artwork
Here are a few selected examples of my artwork,
not theatre related. I take commissions and
frequently work to better my skills as an artist.