JESUS LOPEZ
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • Photography Portfolio
    • Stage Photography
    • Headshots + Portraits >
      • Headshot Tips
    • Photography Services Info
    • Dance | Studio Light
    • Dance | Natural Light
    • Testimonials
    • Film Photography
  • STAGE/FILM
    • Artistic Director + Producer >
      • Zu Sein
      • When We Watch (WWW)
      • New Swan Shakespeare Festival
      • No Erasure
      • Don Quixote de La Mancha
      • TZAQIK
      • /ECHO
      • In This Light There is Silence
      • Distance in its Movement
      • Curie, Curie
      • Video Colleges
      • Duality Broken
      • Symptoma 20
      • Brace for Impact
      • Mary's Wedding
      • RED
      • FAWNZ
    • Lighting + Projections Design >
      • After Images or Marie Curie Remembers
      • VIVO Teatro SilCo
      • the shadow of loving (you)
      • IN THIS LIGHT
      • University Designs
      • New Swan Shakespeare
      • FAWNZ Dance Company
    • Coordination + Management
    • Makeup Designer
  • RELATED WORK
    • INDIE ART PROJECTS >
      • "Visual Poetry"
      • Collages (nsfw)
      • "sil nce"
      • "Define the Unmade"
      • "HUU SHK"
      • Film Photography
    • "i.see.red" poetry & photography book
    • Publicity Art
    • Paint Studies & Sketches
    • "ReCreating the Stage"
    • MOON Collective
  • ABOUT
    • BIOGRAPHY
    • Collaborator's Quotes
    • TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    • Press + Media
    • Awards + Education
    • ♫ MUSIC
  • CONTACT

NEW SWAN
SHAKESPEARE


​DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA

A DRAMATIC READING
​PROJECTIONS DESIGN

Written by Guillén de Castro, based on the epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated into English by UCLA's Diversifying the Classics
Directed by Jesús López Vargas & Eden Aztlán
Dramaturgs: Laura Munoz & Rhonda Sharrah
Stage Manager: Sammie D. Moore
Production Assistant: Christine A. Antaramian
Illustrator/Projections Content Creator: Destiny Esquivel
Projections Design & Colorist: Jesús López Vargas
Lighting Designer: Kassia R. Curl
Asst. Lighting Designer: Rhea Remesh
Producers: Daisy Anahy Santos, Lonnie Alcaraz, Eli Simon & Julia R. Lupton

Produced by New Swan Shakespeare Center, UCLA's Diversifying the Classics, and Brown Bag Theatre Company
November 14th & 15th | 7pm
UCI Little Theater  (CA)
​

Cast: Aaron Bruce Gomez, Alonso Melgoza, Armando Acosta, Bridgette Betanzos , Ethan Pante, Evelyn Urusquieta, Jasmine Cole, Jack Fowler, Maia Lucas & Paulina Sofia Lugo Reyes
​

Translators: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, Barbara Fuchs, Rafael Jaime, Saraí Jaramillo, Rachel Kaufman, Robin Kello, Dandi Meng, Laura Muñoz, Javier Patiño Loira, Amanda Riggle, Rhonda Sharrah, Aina Soley Mateu, Samantha Solis & Jesslyn Whittell 
Picture
Picture
Picture

NEW SWAN EVENT
UC Shakespeare Trial:
​
A Witches' Brew
​LIGHTING DESIGN

​Directed by Eli Simon
Dramaturgy by Julia Lupton
Makeup, Lighting & Sound by Jesús López Vargas
Venue: Freight & Salvage, Berkley, CA 
​
Hope Andrejack - Witch #1
Meg Evans - Witch #2
Abel Garcia - Witch #3
Evan Lugo - Macbeth



NEW SWAN
CYPRUS
an Othello adaptation
​LIGHTING DESIGN

Adapted & ​Directed by Beth Lopes
Lighting by Jesús López Vargas
Associate Lighting by Amelie DeJesus
This event used an in-house lighting plot by Karyn D. Lawrence
Stage Manager: Annie Mulvihill

Venue: The New Swan Theater, Irvine, CA
 ​
Cast: Randy Thompson, Abel Garcia, Annelise Hermsen,
Anna Fitzgerald & Adam Koda

​NEW SWAN EVENTS
UC Shakespeare Trials:

Measure for Measure & Much Ado About Nothing?
​LIGHTING & PROJECTIONS DESIGN

​Directed by Beth Lopes
Dramaturgy by Julia Lupton
Lighting & Projections by Jesús López Vargas
Venue: The Irvine Barclay Theater, Irvine, CA
Using in-house rep-plot.
​
Cast: Abel Garcia, Heather Echeverria & Greg Ungar
Cast: Sonya Cooke, Alejandra Villanueva, Malia Walker & Zach Trent


Picture
Picture
Picture
​Copyright © 2026 Jesús López Vargas

​*All photography in this website was taken by Jesús ​López Vargas unless stated otherwise*
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • Photography Portfolio
    • Stage Photography
    • Headshots + Portraits >
      • Headshot Tips
    • Photography Services Info
    • Dance | Studio Light
    • Dance | Natural Light
    • Testimonials
    • Film Photography
  • STAGE/FILM
    • Artistic Director + Producer >
      • Zu Sein
      • When We Watch (WWW)
      • New Swan Shakespeare Festival
      • No Erasure
      • Don Quixote de La Mancha
      • TZAQIK
      • /ECHO
      • In This Light There is Silence
      • Distance in its Movement
      • Curie, Curie
      • Video Colleges
      • Duality Broken
      • Symptoma 20
      • Brace for Impact
      • Mary's Wedding
      • RED
      • FAWNZ
    • Lighting + Projections Design >
      • After Images or Marie Curie Remembers
      • VIVO Teatro SilCo
      • the shadow of loving (you)
      • IN THIS LIGHT
      • University Designs
      • New Swan Shakespeare
      • FAWNZ Dance Company
    • Coordination + Management
    • Makeup Designer
  • RELATED WORK
    • INDIE ART PROJECTS >
      • "Visual Poetry"
      • Collages (nsfw)
      • "sil nce"
      • "Define the Unmade"
      • "HUU SHK"
      • Film Photography
    • "i.see.red" poetry & photography book
    • Publicity Art
    • Paint Studies & Sketches
    • "ReCreating the Stage"
    • MOON Collective
  • ABOUT
    • BIOGRAPHY
    • Collaborator's Quotes
    • TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    • Press + Media
    • Awards + Education
    • ♫ MUSIC
  • CONTACT