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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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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.

Production Team:

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!

Production Team:

Production Manager: Ian McClellan
Promoter: Kerry Warner
Producer: Kerry Warner
Stage Manager: Miranda Ried
Production Designer: Ian McClellan
Audio Engineer: Sophia Halsey-Dam
Lighting Programmer: Ian McClellan

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2020) – The Honest Collective

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date February 21, 2020

Assistant Lighting Designer & Assistant Technical Director

February 21 – March 7, 2020

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vies for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life-un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.

Production Team:

Director: Kris Mish
Music Director: Gianna Read-Skelton
Choreographer: Liberty Schultz
Producer: Maddy Quinn
Stage Manager: Lisa Floyd
Lighting Design: Kris Mish & Lisa Floyd (assist. Ian McClellan)
Set Design: Kris Mish
Sound Design: Kris Mish
Costume Design: Catherine Handford

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Seussical! The Musical (2019) – Central Memorial High School

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date December 10, 2019

Stage Manager & Lighting Designer

December 10 – 15, 2019

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many “thinks.” Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphantly.

Production Team:

Director: Andrew MacDonald-Smith
Music Director: Ian Robertson
Choreographer: Andrew MacDonald-Smith & Corrine Vessey
Producer: Len Simon
Stage Manager: Ian McClellan
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan & Gundars Jautaiķis
Set Design: Len Simon
Sound Design: Gundars Jautaiķis
Costume Design: Victoria Krawchuk
Hair Design: Victoria Krawchuk
Makeup Design: Victoria Krawchuk

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Sweet Charity (2019) – Browncow Collective & The Honest Collective

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date November 1, 2019

Lighting & Sound Designer

November 1 – 9, 2019

Charity Hope Valentine always tries to look on the bright side of life, despite working in a rundown dance hall and contending with a seemingly endless run of bad dates. Determined to find love, Charity falls for suave actor Vittorio Vidal, but their romance is all too brief. However, when Charity finds herself stuck in an elevator with the reserved Oscar Lindquist, it turns out that she may have finally met her match.

Production Team:

Director: Amber Bissonnette
Music Director: Jill O’Connell
Choreographer: Ryan Maschke
Producer: Ryan Maschke, Alex Bergen
Stage Manager: Molly Noonan, Chandler Ontkean
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan
Sound Design: Ian McClellan
Costume Design: Costume Collective

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The Addams Family (2019) – Front Row Centre Players

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date September 20, 2019

UPDATE July 26th, 2020: Ian McClellan was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design in the Calgary Community Theatre Awards (CAT Awards). Read more here: https://www.calgary-acts.com/docs/2020nominees_rev1.pdf

Lighting Designer

September 20 – October 5, 2019

The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on a fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.