THEATRE DESIGN CREDITS
- indicates World Premier
2022
Women of Science* UofC Alchemy, Philosophers and Educators of Science Conference, World Stage Design – Production Design – dir.: Christine Brubaker
2021
The Bus Stop UofC Mainstage – Set – dir.: Nick Wang
2019
Strangers on a Train Vertigo Theatre – Costume – dir.: Anita Rochon
Might As Well Be Dead: A Nero Wolfe Mystery Vertigo Theatre – Costume – dir.: Haysam Kadri
Machinal UofC Mainstage – Set – dir.: Zach McKendrick
2018
antigone lives UofC Mainstage – Set – dir.: Christine Brubaker
Slime The Only Animal & Banff Centre for the Arts – Costume dir.: Kendra Fanconi
Home is a Beautiful Word Sum Theatre with Persephone Theatre – Set – dir.: Michael Shamata
Shakespeare’s R&J Kill Your Television – Production – dir.: Kevin Sutley
Sterling Nomination for Outstanding Independent Production
2017
Skylight Theatre Calgary – Lighting – dir.: Val Planche
Crazy for You Theatre Calgary – Associate Lighting Designer – dir.: Dana Tekatch
Trace Vertical City and High Performance Rodeo – Lighting – dir.: Bruce Barton
2016
Six Characters in Search of an Author UofC Mainstage – Set & Costume – dir.: Val Campbell
Pseudolus UofC Foothills Stadium – Set & Costume – dir.: Alyssa Bradac
All Good Things Vertical City and SCPA – Lighting – dir.: Bruce Barton
Passages UofC Music Concert – Projection – composer: David Eagle
The Learned Ladies UofC MainStage – Set & Costume – dir.: Inouk Touzin
Raise Your Voice UofC Music Concert – Projection & Lighting – dir.: Laura Hynes
2015
The Mousetrap Vertigo Theatre – Costume – dir.: Kate Newby
Man Equals Man UofC Mainstage – Costume – dir.: Timothy Sutherland
Impulse* UofC Presentation – Design Team – PQ 2015 – dir.: Dawn McCaugherty
2014
Butcher* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Weyni Mengesha
Betty Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play
2013
The Love of the Nightingale UofC Mainstage – Set, Costume, Lights & Proj. – dir: A. Bradac
The Circle* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Linda
The Apology* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Kate Newby
In the Heat of the Night Vertigo Theatre – Costume – dir.: Kate Newby
Betty Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play
2012
Fair Liberty’s Call UofC Mainstage – Set, Costume & Lights – dir.: Dawn McCaugherty
Drama: Pilot Episode* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Blake Brooker
Ash Rizin* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Patrick McDonald
Betty Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Musical
Thinking of Yu* Alberta Theatre Projects – Costume – dir.: Alan Dilworth
2011
The Swamp Dwellers UofC Mainstage – Set, Costume, Lights & Projection – dir.: Ed Ogum
True Love Lies Citadel – Costumes – dir.: Ron Jenkins
Sterling Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play
King Lear UofC Mainstage – Lights – dir.: Patrick Finn
Backwater* Windrow Performance – Set, Costume & Lights – dir.: Amber Borotsik
Sterling Nomination for Outstanding Independent Production
2010
Perfect Pie UofC Mainstage – Production – dir.: Heidi Malazdrewich
Garage Alec* Village Theatre – Set – dir.: Ron Jenkins
Sterling Nomination for Outstanding Independent Production
As You Like It Citadel Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: James MacDonald
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court MacEwan University – Costume – dir: C. Derkatch
Pacific Overtures MacEwan University – Set – dir.: Bridget Ryan
Spine Realwheels/UofA/SFU – Costume – dir.: Bob Frazer
2009
Blackbird Citadel Theatre – Costume – dir.: Wayne Paquette
Back to You* Musical Theatreworks – Set & Lights – dir.: Barbara Tomasic
Seed Savers* Workshop West – Set & Lights – dir.: Michael Clark
Victor & Victoria‘s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things* Kill Your TV – Production – dir.: K. Sutley
Sterling Award for Outstanding Production of a Fringe Play – Selected for NYC Fringe
Proof Keyano Theatre – Production – dir.: Sarah Ferguson
Glorious! Shadow Theatre – Set & Lights – dir.: Wayne Paquette
The Addle–pated Nixie* Grant MacEwan College – Set & Costumes – dir.: Stewart Lemoine
Stray* Workshop West – Costume – dir.: Michael Clark
Hello Hello Kill Your Television – Production – dir.: Kevin Sutley
Sterling Award for Outstanding Independent Production
2008
Without You* Studio Theatre – Set – dir.: Bradley Moss
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Studio Theatre – Costume – dir.: Rob Moffatt
Picasso at the Lapin Agile Keyano Theatre – Production – dir.: Sarah Ferguson
Twelfth Night Studio Theatre – Production – dir.: Mary Vingoe
What the Butler Saw Studio Theatre – Costume – dir.: Ron Jenkins
The Maids Studio Theatre – Lighting – dir.: Ian Leung
2007
Stones in His Pockets Globe Theatre – Set, Projection & Costume – dir.: Geoff Whynot
2006
The Double Inconstancy Studio Theatre – Costume – dir.: Marianne Copithorne
Mrs. Klein Studio Theatre – Set & Projection – dir.: Julien Arnold
Much Ado About Nothing Theatre by the Bay – Costume – dir.: Richard Rose
After Juliet LKTYP – Set & Costume – dir.: Andrew Lamb
Over the River and Through the Woods Globe Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: Geoff Whynot
2005
Jane Eyre George Brown Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: Rosemary Dunsmore
Working Girls* Working Girls Productions – Set & Costume – dir.: Melissa Haller
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot BirdLand Theatre – Costume – dir.: David Ferry
Dora Nomination for Outstanding Costume Design;
Dora Award for Outstanding Production
This Castle* Moonhorse Dance Theatre – Costume & Projection – dir.: P. Powell & C. Moore
Yerma George Brown Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: Richard Rose
Bea’s Niece Tarragon Theatre – Set, Projection & Costume – dir.: Richard Rose
Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad – Marquis Ent. Tour – Costume – dir.: Rosemary Dunsmore
Half Life* Tarragon / Necessary Angel Theatre – Associate Designer – dir.: Daniel Brooks
Rodelinda Canadian Opera Company – Associate Designer – dir.: Tim Albery
Macbeth Canadian Opera Company – Associate Designer – dir.: Nic Muni
2004
Fire! Theatre Calgary – Set & Projection – dir.: Richard Rose
Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical
Pride and Prejudice George Brown Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: James Simon
Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad Factory Theatre – Costume – dir.: Rosemary Dunsmore
Dora Nomination for Outstanding Production
Cymbeline Stratford Festival – Assistant Set & Costume Designer – dir.: David Latham
2003
Fallen Gypsy* Under the Bridge – Set & Costume – dir.: Linda Matassa
Sleeping Beauty Wolf Works/Casa Loma – Costume – dir.: Mark Allen
2002
Wind in the Willows George Brown Theatre – Set & Costume – dir.: Sue Miner
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Theatre & Co. – Set & Costume – dir.: Mike Peng
Snow White Wolf Works/Casa Loma – Costume – dir.: Mark Allen
The Foursome New Stages – Set & Costume – dir.: Lorraine Behnan
The Scarlet Pimpernel Stratford Festival – Assistant Set & Costume Design – dir.: D. Garhnum
2001
Cinderella Wolf Works/Casa Loma – Costume – dir.: Chris Wilson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stratford Festival – Assistant Designer – dir.: William Carden
Tempest Tost Stratford Festival – Assistant Set & Costume Designer – direcor: Richard Rose
2000
Island of the Mighty * World Classic Theatre – Installation – dir.: Alison Humphrey
Titus Andronicus Stratford Festival – Assistant Costume Designer – dir.: Richard Rose
1998
The Devil’s Disciple Studio Theatre – Set & Lighting – dir.: J.P. Fournier
Red, Hot and Cole Studio Theatre – Set – dir.: Michael Murdock
1997
Husk * Theatre Network/NextFest Set, Light, Costume, Projection – dir.: Sophie Lees
Excavation/The Wild Woman Project* The Works Festival – Costume – dir.: Beau Coleman
FILM & TELEVISION CREDITS
2005
A Pair of Red Shorts – Veronica Tennant Productions – Production Co-design with Astrid Janson – dir.: Veronica Tennant
2003
Shadow Pleasures: Handwriting into Dance – Eccentric Things – Associate Production Designer – production designer: Astrid Janson – dir.: Veronica Tennant
Gemini Award for Best Production Design and Nomination for Best Production;
Golden Sheaf for Best Production Design and Best Production
Taste of Shakespeare: Macbeth – Eugenia Foundation – Assistant Art Director – art dir.: Cameron
Porteous – dir.: Eric Weinthal
2001
Left Handed – World Classic Theatre – Production Design – dir.: Boaqi Ye
Best Super Short Film at the Anchorage Film Festival
Selected for screening at Sprockets, Toronto; NSI, L.A.; & Indonesia
SPECIAL EVENTS
2007
Honda Leadership Awards, Fireworks Marketing Group, Set & Décor
2003
Casa Loma Christmas Exhibit, Wolf Works, Key Designer
Farm Country Experience, Pacific National Exhibition, Key Set Decorator
2002
Casa Loma Christmas Exhibit, Wolf Works, Key Designer
2001
Canada Summer Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies, London, Ontario, Assistant Set & Costume Designer
Casa Loma Christmas, Exhibit Wolf Works, Key Designer
2000
24-24-24 Arthur Andersen, Fireworks Marketing Group, Maple Leaf Gardens, Assistant Designer
EXHIBITIONS
World Stage Design 2022, Project Lead. OISTAT, University of Calgary, and CITT/ICTS, Jury Manager: Alexandra Bonds, Calgary, August 2022.
Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation, Lead Canadian Curator. A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Museum, Director Dr. Dmitry Radionov, Chief Curator Susan Tsu, Moscow, Russia, June 2019.
Costume at the Turn of the Century: 1995-2015, Lead Canadian Curator. A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Director Dr. Dmitry Radionov, Chief Curator Professor Igor Roussanoff, Moscow, Russia, 2015.
Love of the Nightingale, Costume Sketches, Juried exhibition. Costume at the Turn of the Century: 1995-2015, A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2015.
Shared [private] Space, Canadian Professional and Student Exhibits. Producer and Host, Associated Designers of Canada, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.
The Birds, Invited to student exhibition, University of Alberta, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, 2008.
Michael Levine: A Retrospective, Assistant Curator. Queen’s Quay Gallery, Curator Cameron Porteous, Toronto, Canada, 1999.
PUBLICATIONS
“Peeking Through the Racks: Shedding Light on Working Conditions of Costume Designers.” Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) Volume 152 Fall 2012: 50-56. Print and Web.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Conference Convener
Scenofest. Curatorial Vision, Convener, Jury Manager. OISTAT, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, August 2022.
Keynote
Taking the Risk. Saskatchewan Theatre Design Festival. Online, April 2021.
Performances
Pseudolus. Set and Costume Design, UofC Foothills Stadium, Dir.: Alyssa Bradac, Calgary, Canada, Congress of the Humanities, May 2016.
All Good Things. Lighting Design, Vertical City and School of Creative and Performing Arts, Dir.: Bruce Barton, Canadian Association of Theatre Research, Calgary, Canada, Congress of the Humanities, May 2016.
Passages. Projection Design, UofC Music Concert, Composer: David Eagle, Calgary, Canada, Congress of the Humanities, May 2016.
Impulse. Design Team, UofC presentation at Scenofest, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2015.
Juried Panel
“Wardrobe of the Future”. Thinking Costume, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, June 2019.
“Designing Conventions: Crafting an arc in the post-dramatic, narrative-defiant antigone lives*”. Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, March 2018.
“@ the Edges of Theatre Production: Designers, Documents, Social Media”. Canadian Association of Theatre Research Conference, Victoria, BC – Congress of the Humanities, June 1st, 2013.
Lectures
“Designers Speak Through Sketch”. Associated Designers of Canada, invited lecture, Canadian Professional Exhibit, Prague, Czech Republic – Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, June 2015.
Workshops
“Wearing Light”. Online workshop presentation, Associated Designers of Canada, 2020.
“Wearable Light with Arduino”. Invited workshop presentation, Rendez-vous 2016, Winnipeg, Canada, 2016.
“Wearing Light”. Refereed workshop presentation, Scenofest, Prague, Czech Republic – Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, June 2015.
Invited Panel
“How to Fail Successfully”. United States Institute of Theatre Technology Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, March 2019.
“Using Design to Innovate: Penn State Graduate Designer Panel”. Chair of Panel, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, March 2018.
“Transforming Designers”. International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, Costume Design Working Group Conference, Taipei, Taiwan – World Stage Design, July 2017.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
ACADEMIC
2017 EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING– Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary in recognition of excellence in teaching in the Established Teacher category – $1,000
2016 GREAT SUPERVISOR AWARD – Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary.
2012 DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHER, New Researcher Category– Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary in recognition of my work on “Costume Designers Speak Through Sketch” – $1,000
PROFESSIONAL
2006 SIMINOVITCH PROTÉGÉ PRIZE – selected by prize winner, Dany Lyne – $12,500
DORA NOMINATION for Outstanding Costume Design Independent Theatre Category for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot produced by BirdLand Theatre.
2002 GUTHRIE AWARD for special projects, Stratford Festival of Canada.
2001 BEST SUPER SHORT FILM at the Anchorage Film Festival for Left Handed.
TOM PATTERSON AWARD (designer in training), a Tyrone Guthrie Award, Stratford Festival.
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