Dave Laubenthal

I had the pleasure of working with Julie Taymor and Michael Curry in 2006 on some pieces for her production of Grendel- “An Operatic Monster’s Tale”…Beowulf, from the ‘big, bad, monster’s point of view. Taymor teamed up, once again, with Curry (as they had for the smash hit production, The Lion King on Broadway) to design some fantastic masks, puppets and kinetic sculptures. A few of them I had the privilege of sculpting (models and full size)…like the big on-stage dragon…whose mouth opened and closed. The last image is of a smaller sculpture that became part of a very stylized large harp that was “played” during performance.

• Production Design
• Concept Art