Theatre Projects

Jesse Gaffney is a prop master in Chicago. This blog serves as a catalog of all of the, how-to, how-not-to, and hey-that's-cool lessons I want to keep record of. I try to post something new every five days. Please browse around, let me know what you think, and tell me all about your own propping adventures.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Light-up Cake

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This is one of the two birthday cakes created for "Night over Erzinga" at Silk Road Rising. This was the easier of the two, but w...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Wedding Centerpieces

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The centerpieces for my weddings weren't so much a craft project as a shopping project, but they did seem to tie right in to work. I...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Period Pens

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I have often run up against period pens as a problem.  It is very difficult to come across anything cheap and plentiful at the stores t...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Hostess

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The other day at one of our previews I had four different people come up to me with a bit of fear in their eyes. They wanted to know if I ha...

Plastic Champagne Flutes

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In Hamlet  at Notre Dame Shakespeare this past summer we needed a large number of champagne flutes for a party scene. I didn't have muc...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Wedding Guest Book

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When I got engaged over a year ago I wrote that you would likely be seeing multiple wedding projects here on the blog mixed in with the thea...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

A level playing field

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I had a meeting this summer with a reader of this blog who was interested in talking to me about going into tech theatre as a profession. D...
Monday, November 5, 2012

A Simple Salad

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Recently I needed to throw together a quick salad as a prop in a show. I had been under the impression that the salad was consumed every ni...
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Jesse Gaffney
I am a freelance props master, working all over Chicago. I love antique stores, upholstery, food props, crown moulding and fine furniture construction. I believe in the importance of details and in the power of theatre to change the world.
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