I have stage designed for over thirty-five years. And it has been quite the ride. Some of my work has been traditional. Other projects, particularly those with dance and childeren’s theatre, have been wild aventures. What I’ve loved most about stage is the collaborative process. When it is best, designers, directors/choreographers, performers and stage artisans riff off of each other’s creativity and energy. In other words, we are transformed during the process of making art.
RECENT WORK
SELECT DESIGNS
As You Like It – Red Deer Collage – 2002 
Arsenic and Old Lace – Manitoba Theatre Centre – 1992 
Russell’s World – created and performed by Herbie Barnes 
Romeo and Juliet – Manitoba Theatre Centre – 1995 
“Black Coffee” – Robert Klein, David LeReaney as Poirot & Rylan Wilkie
Vertigo Theatre – 2008
Children’s theatre has been a mainstay in my design career.
Where the Wild Things Are – MTYP 
T-Rex puppet – Skinny Lie – MTYP 
Jay Brazeau as Mr. Johnson, The Cat Came Back – MTYP – 2012 
The Cat with puppeteer, Paul Hooson 
The Hobbit – MTYP 2000 
The Odyssey – MTYP – 2001 
Martha – MTYP – 2003 
Silverwing – MTYP -2006 – Costumes Leanne Foley, Video Deco Dawson
During our last years in Calgary, I began to work with institutions of learning. I liked working students.
As you Like it – Red Deer College 
Red Noses – Mount Royal College – 2006 
Light and Shadow – Banff Festival 
The Bundle – Red Deer College – 2007 
Spring Awakening – Mount Royal College – 2008
Route 7 – DJD 
Tinge and Tone – DJD 
Shooting Stars – Chinook Winds, Banff Festival
Corpse – Vertigo 
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight – Vertigo 
Innocent Blood – Vertigo 
Deer Woman – New Voices Woman – Debajehmahjig – 1997 
Noises Off – Stage West – 2003 
Spring Awakening – Mount Royal College – 2008 
Schmulnik’s Waltz – Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
