An Homage to the Outcasts

Brief
A 45-minute live musical showcase needed projection content that could function as more than backdrop — visuals had to move in exact sync with a live performance, where timing wasn't approximate but cued moment-to-moment against lighting, sound, and performers on stage.
Concept
The show's central symbol is the London Underground — the one space that unites every Londoner regardless of sex, orientation, or background, even in a city pulling itself apart. I built the visual language around that idea: projection content that shifted between the intimacy of Skye Hughes' personal, closeted world and the cold, institutional imagery of a regime enforcing "perfect" conformity, using the Tube as a recurring visual thread stitching both realities together. Nothing in the projection design was static — every transition between Skye's internal world and the dystopia closing in around her had to be built as a live, precisely timed cue in QLab, so the shift in atmosphere landed in the same instant as the performers' own shift on stage.
Skillsets
After Effects
Premire Pro
Qlab
Photoshop
Illustrator
Projection
Mapping
Filming
Storytelling
Video Editing
Layout
Colour Grading
Role
Concept, Book, Lyrics: Chris Vasileiadi (they/she)
Music, Lyrics: Sevinc Beste Yildiz (she/her)
Producer: Fangyan Yao (she/her)
Director/Choreographer: Chris Vasileiadi (they/she)
Assistant Choreographer: Lizzie Parker (she/her)
Musical Director: Sevinc Beste Yildiz (she/her)
Assistant Musical Director: Duru Unlu (she/her)
Deputy Stage Manager: Noah Tidmarsh (he/him)
Stage Manager: Mae White (she/they)
Costume Designer: Maya Andrews (she/her)
Set Designer: Antonio Saucedo (he/him)
Lighting Designer: Jasmine Lam (she/her)
Sound Designer: Alex Adshead (she/they)
Projection / Video Designer: Rachel Leung (she/her)
Homage to the Outcasts is a dystopian musical set in a near-future London where progress reverses into a new wave of conversion therapy targeting queer residents — and the projection design had to carry as much narrative weight as the performers themselves, constructing a world audiences could believe in within 45 minutes, cue by cue.






