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Why the Best Productions Happen When the Designer Stops Being the Expert in the Room

8 hours ago 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.00

For years, production designer Patrick Larsen held a specific idea about what creative leadership looked like: enough experience accumulated to the point of walking into every project already knowing the answer. He started in Utah, building sets for...

Astonishment Is a Currency. Spend It Once.

30 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.02

Why the biggest canvas needs the most self-control. Think of astonishment as money in a fixed account. Every time you astonish an audience, you spend some, and the balance doesn't refill during the show. Spend it all in the first ten minutes and the...

How Twenty Years of Designing for the World’s Biggest Stages Actually Started: In a Utah Scene Shop

26 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.08

The first set production designer Patrick Larsen built was for a theater in Utah that seated a few hundred people. Regional productions. Tight budgets. An MFA from UC San Diego and a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Award already in...