SHIVANNA SOOKNANAN Design
Scenic, Event, Costume, Production
Selling Kabul
PREMIER STAGES AT KEAN
DIRECTED BY; Taylor Reynolds
SCENIC DESIGN BY: Ashley Basile
LIGHITING DESIGN: Zack Gage
COSTUME DESIGN: SHIVANNA SOOKNANAN
Frederick Kennedy, Co-Sound Design
Liam Bellman-Sharpe, Co-Sound Design
THE TOWERS CAM DOWN ON NY
Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. Taroon spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must remain in his sister’s apartment, or risk his life to see his child. With shattering precision, Sylvia Khoury’s tense drama traces the human cost and the legacy of our longest war.
As a person who identifies as Asian American and BIPOC it was important for me to show that onstage though the costumes. I wanted to show the world of the play through the costumes. This world is a conservative world but also "modern". It was interesting dancing between this fine line and what would the characters wear today including their personalities
