Alyssa Jewell

Acis, Galatea, & Polyphemus: Associate Set Designer (The Pathways Program)

Alyssa Jewell is a Portland based artist and recent Boston University MFA graduate who dances between the worlds of live performance design and video installation. She has had the pleasure of working as a scenic designer for Patterns of Wind (Boothe Theatre) directed by Ty Defoe & Kate Freer, Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights Theatre) directed by Blair Cadden, Exit The King (BU Studio One) directed by Clay Hopper, Once: The Musical (Boothe Theatre) directed by Shamus McCarty, and Motion. (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao) in collaboration with MIT Media Lab. Alyssa strives to continue her work as a designer exploring the intersections of music, theatre and multimedia, and their impact on sparking conversation and building community.

Events featuring Alyssa Jewell

Acis, Galatea & Polyphemus

Composed by George Frideric Handel
Libretto by Nicola Giuvo based on the myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Saturday, August 3 at 7:30pm and Sunday, August 4 at 3pm

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"Music of exquisite beauty."

The great love between Acis and Galatea has been the subject of poems, paintings, operas, and statues throughout the centuries. When the jealous cyclops Polyphemus becomes crazed by his unrequited love for the sea-nymph Galatea, he kills her beloved, the mortal Acis. Devastated, Galatea transforms Acis into a river in which she can live with him, forever united. Ultimately, in this timeless myth, love endures and overcomes all, even death. This great love story is "a celebration of Handel's inexhaustible genius."

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