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8 Aug 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Patrick Larsen $0.09
If your creative output depends on inspiration showing up, you don't have a process. You have a gamble. Let me push back on one of the most beloved ideas about creativity: the muse. The story that you wait, inspiration arrives from somewhere beyond...
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...
21 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.10
Twenty-five years in, I've never once seen a lightning bolt. Here's what I've seen instead. In October 2025 I gave a keynote at World Stage Design in Sharjah — the quadrennial performance-design event, this time in the UAE. I started with work I had...
7 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.09
What Lila at Enchanting Valley taught me about continuity. Here's a principle Lila drove home for me: if you want a place to feel whole, don't design the show and the venue as separate jobs. Design them as one. Lila is the resident show at Enchantin...
6 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.27
When the same person writes it, directs the vision, builds the set and designs the costumes, a show stops feeling assembled Here's a small idea about creative work that Varuna proved to me better than any project I've done: coherence is easier to bu...
3 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.08
Most of production designer Patrick Larsen’s career has been built around work that disappears. Expo 2020 Dubai ceremonies that ran for one extraordinary evening. Broadcast sets rebuilt when a show changes format. Singapore’s National Day Parade — m...
29 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.14
Al Wasl Plaza in Dubai. 130 metres across. The world’s largest 360-degree projection surface. 3,000 lighting fixtures, 1,000 speakers, 1,300 costumes, 192 nations represented. When Studio Bound took on the Expo 2020 Dubai opening ceremony, those num...
27 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.18
The solution came in the shower. Not at the desk. Not in a brainstorm session. Not at two in the morning forcing an answer through exhaustion. Production designer Patrick Larsen had been working through a specific challenge for the Expo 2020 Dubai c...
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...
4 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.07
When director Peter Wilson approached Studio Bound to design Varuna for Taman Safari Indonesia, the brief was Indonesia’s first underwater theatrical dining experience — environments that transform between oceanic realms while audiences eat, watch l...
