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#364: Larry Heyman (Scenic Designer) (pt. 2 of 2)
Arts Entrepreneurship Podcast: Making Art Work
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Welcome And Larry’s Background
3:31
Choosing Freelance And Buying Time
4:21
Rethinking Stage Blood Costs
5:04
Ingredients, Safety, And Stain Control
8:13
Testing Fabrics And Real-World Results
12:44
Open-Sourcing The Recipe And Costs
16:00
Staying Current Through Curiosity
19:57
Practical Effects And Simple Solutions
23:25
Designing For Theater, Opera, And Film
26:22
Relationships, Reliability, And Humility
30:04
Freelance Business Setup That Works
34:07
Defining Success And Lasting Impact
36:29
New Personal Art Experiments
38:15
Alternate Careers And Visual Merchandising
39:19
Advice, Access, And Decorporatizing Arts
43:00
Best Advice: Embrace The Weird
Arts Entrepreneurship Podcast: Making Art Work
#364: Larry Heyman (Scenic Designer) (pt. 2 of 2)
Feb 02, 2026
Nick Petrella and Andy Heise // Larry Heyman
This week on the podcast is part two of our interview with Larry Heyman. He’s an internationally recognized and award-winning freelance scenic designer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Larry has over 30 years of experience in set design, as well as properties design, fabrication and supervision, across theatre, film, opera, television, commercial projects and higher education.
Companies he’s worked with include: The Goodman Theatre, The Huntington Theatre, Prague Shakespeare Company, The Cleveland Playhouse, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and MTV.
Stream the episode to hear how Larry incorporate in-depth research and problem solving to give his clients what they want. https://www.historyofchairs.com/
