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“Lord is emerging as a leading talent in the nascent video-projection design field.”
— Ryan Taylor, DC Theatre Arts
“Patrick Lord’s projection work is stunning...”
— Frank Benge, BroadwayWorld
“The animated pencil sketch projections easily set the scene and do so in a beautiful, inventive, and artistic way.”
— Jeff Davis, Broadway World
“The projection work also plays a crucial role throughout, bringing the more whimsical side of the piece into being by rendering the visual and narrative world of Vivienne’s ‘Alzheimer’s creation myth.’ Patrick Lord’s projection design has its own personality, is well crafted, and an important contrast to the more naturalistic world of much of the performance.”
— Chris Williams, MD Theatre Guide
“Max Doolittle’s flashy lighting and Patrick W. Lord’s projections — memorably featuring anarchist imagery on “Tear Me Down” and pop-up-book illustrations on “The Origin of Love” — further fuel the high-octane spectacle.”
— Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post
“Like the polar explorer, director Jill Anna Ponasik specializes in daunting challenges. She conducts a creative team that brings "Ernest Shackleton Loves Me" alive as a full-blown multimedia production. Projection and video designer Patrick W. Lord smoothly incorporates imagery from Frank Hurley's film of the actual Shackleton expedition, as well as clever projections from Kat's cellphone.”
— Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“And the exceptional projection and video design of Patrick W. Lord takes the audience visually back to the 1960s with period footage, newspaper headlines, and backstory video montages projected onto pieces of scrim.”
— Gail Obenreder, Broad Street Review
“On Your Feet! is a visual treat thanks to Clifton Chadick’s scene design, Ryan J. O’ Gara’s lighting design, and projection design by Patrick W. Lord. Gorgeous pastels harkening to sunny Miami, and arena lighting affects to push the live concert experience. Maneuvering from a Little Havana family apartment, to a New York City music management suite, or a Las Vegas show.”
— Susan Guntly, BroadwayWorld
“Patrick Lord's use of projection is some of the best use of multimedia I've seen in a theatrical production.”
— Evan Normandin, BroadwayWorld
“The star here, it seems, is Patrick W. Lord, who is credited as the play’s designer: Graphically, “Side-Walks” is 15 levels more advanced than the rudimentary “Emoji Play.” The playfulness with the digital format is an entertaining merger of technology and art.”
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“Their trademark visual aesthetic —fashioning sets and costumes of striking impact on lean budgets — is boosted here by the projections of Patrick Lord. “Phantom” is the most digitally sophisticated show I’ve seen by Synetic Theater, and the graphics of blazing Paris theaters and the catacombs of the underworld add a measure of pleasing atmosphere to the drab auditorium the company calls home.”
— Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“The vivid projection design by Patrick Lord paints tattoos and bones on flesh, creates entire scenes from shadow, and casts migrants against vast landscapes.”
— Allie Goldstein, The DCist
“Activated by tightly integrated video and lighting schema (via Patrick W. Lord and Jason Lyons), the frame can make the evening feel like a shared hallucination unfolding inside one of Peter Max’s lunchbox radios.”
— Trey Graham, Washington Post
“Also providing a signal contribution to the show is Patrick Lord, who designed the photographic and animated projections that helps transform the stage into the epic landscape of Edward’s inventions (a fairy-tale river, a dragon-haunted castle, etc.) as well as naturalistic locales.”
— Celia Wren, The Washington Post
“With visual embroidery in the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre by projection designer Patrick Lord, whose images are displayed on mural-length screens on opposite walls of the space, “Love and Information’s” mini-drama collectively take on an epic quality.”
— Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“The set is aided by many projectors showing the fine work of Patrick W. Lord. The projections range from stunning shots of space to inside the mission control room at NASA. This is a fully immersive visual experience to keep even the fussiest of kids mesmerized.”
— Elliot Lanes, BroadwayWorld
“Spectacular projections by Patrick Lord combined with terrific lighting by Venus Gulbranson created distinct locales in Jade Kingdom as Xing searches for the missing pieces.”
— Debbie Minter Jackson, DC Theatre Arts