When people walk into one of our productions, they see the finished product. They see castles, villages, forests, and entire worlds built inside a gymnasium. What they don't always see is the work that happens before the curtain rises. For Belle, every backdrop began as a sketch. I spent weeks drawing the village both on a computer and onto the flats, the castles, and the details in the village that would eventually transform our gym into a storybook world. The vision was the
