Live Video Design

When the pandemic hit, Noah chose to combine his technical know-how and creative abilities to help transform virtual productions and step beyond the boundaries of a Zoom box.

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As the live video designer for The Cherry Arts' Felt Sad, Posted a Frog, Noah brought twelve actors from across the country into one call, then layered their performances with visuals, title-cards, music, and more, all in the first two months of the pandemic.

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Noah and director Sam Buggeln then sought to take this type of production a step further. With A Day, four actors stood in green-screen booths with two cameras trained on each of them. The production was lauded, with critics saying that "the live-streamed result could not have been more effectively presented by video designer Noah Elman" and that the "deft staging...in coordination with Elman’s presentations keep the actors facing a wide variety of directions during their narrations in the on-screen boxes".

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On staff with the Kitchen Theatre as their Audience Experience Designer, Noah designed every production for the 2020-2021 season, including workshops for Carson Kreitzer's new play, Timebomb and Stefani Kuo's The Conservation of Parity. His design work also led to him working on Cornell's PMA mainstage season and winning the Camilla Schade Teaching Award for pioneering digital teaching at the Hangar Theatre.