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39 Steps (2022) – Bleviss Laboratory Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date November 24, 2022

Set & Lighting Designer

November 24th – 26th, 2022

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!

Production Team:

Director: Ben Smith
Production Manager: Josh McIntosh
Stage Manager: Julian Anderson (assist. Nyx McLeod)
Set & Lighting Design: Ian McClellan
Sound Design: Shella Apostol
Costume Design: Ankita Yadav
Head of Paint: Yusen Wang
Technical Director: Nichole Man
Head of Lighting: Jack Thompson
Props Master: Shane Marsh

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Carmen (2022) – Saskatoon Opera

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date June 10, 2022

Lighting Designer

June 11th – 18th, 2022

Set in Seville, the opera deals with the love and jealousy of Don José, who is lured away from his duty as a soldier and his beloved Micaëla by the gypsy factory girl Carmen, whom he allows to escape from custody. He is later induced to join the smugglers with whom Carmen is associated but is driven wild by jealousy. This comes to a head when Carmen clarifies her preference for the bull-fighter Escamillo. The last act, outside the bull ring in Seville, brings Escamillo to the arena, accompanied by Carmen, stabbed to death by Don José, who has been awaiting her arrival.

Production Team:

Director: Anna Theodosakis
Conductor: Maria Fuller
Production Manager: Derek Butt
Stage Manager: Shelby Lyn Lowe
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan
Set Design: Evgenia Mikhaylova
Costume Design: Miranda Hughes-McKnight
Technical Director: Jody Longworth
Fight Director: Erin Brophy

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The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2022) – Catalyst Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date April 29, 2022

Projection Associate

2022 Tour: April 29 – May 11, 2022

France. 1940. After months of training and successful missions, The Invisible are sent on one of their most dangerous missions to date. Seven exceptional female operatives risk their lives to fight a dangerous war of sabotage, propaganda and espionage — breaking with decorum and defying expectations, these women achieve the impossible, helping to bring down the greatest threat of their time, only to go completely unseen. This genre-busting mash-up of historical research, film-noir, graphic novels, and musical theatre is a contemporary portrait of brave women who risked their lives to fight during WWII–only to find themselves betrayed by the very world they believed they were fighting for.

Production Team:

Director: Jonathan Christenson
Choreographer: Courtney Arsenault
Original Choreographer: Laura Krewski
Music Director: Ruth Alexander
Production Manager: Lee O’Reilly
Stage Manager: John Raymond (appr. Francis Bundy)
Production Design: Bretta Gereke
Sound Design: Matthew Skopyk
Dramaturg: Sarah Garton Stanley
Producer: Lana Michelle Hughes
Associate Sound Designer & Sound Engineer: Michael Caron
Apprentice Stage Manager: Frances Bundy
COVID Safety Coordinator/Production Assistant: Melanie Bahniuk
Projection Associate: Ian McClellan & Jordan Dowler-Coltman
Costume Coordinator: Jonathan Beaudoin
Costume Assistant: Josée Chartrand

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East of Berlin (2022) – Bleviss Laboratory Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date March 31, 2022

Assistant Set Designer

March 31 – April 2, 2022

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Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot, seven years since he left his family and their history behind him. As a teenager, Rudi discovered that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Trying to reconcile his inherited guilt, Rudi lashed out against his family and his friends and eventually fled to Germany. While there, he follows in his father’s footsteps by studying medicine and falls in love with Sarah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Questioning redemption, love, guilt and the sins of the father, East of Berlin is a tour de force that follows Rudi’s emotional upheaval as he comes to terms with a frightening past that was never his own.

Production Team:

Director: Ben Smith
Production Manager: Josh McIntosh
Stage Manager: Stuart Lindsay (assist. Faith Conner)
Lighting Design: Kenzie Bows
Set Design: Ankita Yadav (assist. Ian McClellan)
Sound Design: Dylan MacKay
Costume Design: Lieke Bakker
Head of Paint: Amy Dass
Technical Director: Shella Novakovic- Apostol
Props Master: Derek Miiller

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Rochdale (2022) – Studio Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date March 25, 2022
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Associate Projection Designer & Programmer

March 25 – April 2, 2022

It’s 1969. The Vietnam War rages on. Apollo 11 lands on the moon. The Chicago Seven are indicted. Nixon is elected. Trudeau is in office. The FLQ bombs the Montreal Stock Exchange. And in Toronto, Rochdale College – an experiment in cooperative housing and alternative education – is about to become very famous for all the wrong reasons.

Production Team:

Director: Sandy Nicholls
Production Manager: Josh McIntosh
Stage Manager: Charlotte Braid (assist. Andraya Rodrigues, Liz Page)
Lighting Design: Guido Tondino
Set & Projection Design: Guido Tondino (Proj. assoc. Ian McClellan)
Sound Design: Matthew Skopyk
Costume Design: Ankita Yadav
Head of Paint: Guido Tondino
Technical Director: Larry Clark (assist. Nicole Man)
Head of Lighting: Kai Yakichuk
Sound Op: Kade Mazury
Props Master: Jane Kline

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Cock (2022) – Bleviss Laboratory Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date February 10, 2022

Head of Paint

Feb. 10 – 12, 2022

John has been in a stable relationship with his boyfriend for several years. But when he takes a break, he accidentally falls in love with a woman. Torn between the two, filled with guilt and conflicting emotions, he doesn’t know which way to turn. His boyfriend is willing to wait for him to make a decision, but so is his girlfriend. And both are prepared to fight to keep him. As the pressure mounts, a dinner with both parties is arranged, and everyone wants to know. Who is John? What is he? And what will his decision be? A comic discussion of identity and sexuality.

Production Team:

Director: Brett Dahl
Production Manager: Josh McIntosh
Stage Manager: Curtis Gauthier (assist. Julian Anderson)
Set & Lighting Design: Kristin Fernandes
Sound Design: Emma Nokes
Costume Design: Ankita Yadav (assist. Andraya Rodrigues)
Head of Paint: Ian McClellan
Technical Director: Derek Miiller
Head of Lighting: Jack Thompson
Props Master: Amy Dass

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Annie (2020) – Storybook Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date December 12, 2020

UPDATE January 6, 2021: JP Thibodeau & Ian McClellan were recipients of Best Lighting Design of a Play or Musical BroadwayWorld Calgary Regional Awards 2021. Read more here: https://www.broadwayworld.com/calgary/article/Winners-Announced-For-The-BroadwayWorld-2021-REGION-Awards-2001010112

Assistant Lighting Designer & Programmer

December 12, 2020 – January 2, 2021

With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations… and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Production Team:

Director: Jayme Armstrong
Music Director: Joel Schaefer
Choreographer: Angela Kuklicz
Producer: JP Thibodeau
Stage Manager: Joy Hodgson
Lighting Design: JP Thibodeau
Set Design: Rich Davis & JP Thibodeau
Sound Design: Kris Mish
Costume Design: Catherine Handford & Ralamy Kneeshaw
Hair Design: Cat Bentley
Makeup Design: Melody Kiekek

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Spring Awakening (2020) – Storybook Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date September 4, 2020

Assistant Lighting Designer & Programmer

September 4 – 30, 2020

Based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking and controversial play (once banned in Germany), Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s brilliant rock score and searingly emotional book take the story of sexual awakening, youth revolt, and self-discovery into a new century. It’s 1891, and grown-ups hold all the cards. Headstrong Melchior and naive Wendla stumble into each others’ arms, passionate and curious, while anxious Moritz struggles to live up to the stringent expectations of society. With only each other for guidance, this group of young men and women travel the fraught and rocky path of adolescence, discovering their bodies, their minds, and themselves along the way. An electric, vibrant celebration of youth and rebellion, Spring Awakening fuses issues of morality, sexuality, and rock and roll into a story that packs a powerful emotional punch.

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Director: JP Thibodeau
Assistant Director: Constantine Anastasakis
Music Director: Joe Slabe
Choreographer: Jocelyn Hooover-Leiver
Producer: JP Thibodeau
Stage Manager: Joy Hodgson & Cale Tompson
Production Manager: Kris Mish
Lighting Design: JP Thibodeau (assist. Ian McClellan)
Set Design: JP Thibodeau
Sound Design: Kris Mish
Costume Design: Darcie Howe

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Central’s Got Talent (2020) – Central Memorial High School

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date March 12, 2020

Lighting Designer & Programmer

March 12, 2020

Central’s Got Talent is an annual competition open to students of Central Memorial High School. Performers of all facets are invited to come out and compete within a supportive school community, and will be given the opportunity to showcase their talents!