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39 Steps (2022) – Bleviss Laboratory Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Production Team:

  • Director: Jeremy Walker
  • Assistant Director: Charlene Brydges
  • Music Director: Stefanie Barnfather
  • Choreographer: Stephen Welch
  • Producer: Darren Producer
  • Stage Manager: Dee Kern
  • Lighting Design: Ian McClellan (assist. Ben Childs)
  • Set Design: Mitch Tukkimaki
  • Sound Design: Ross Wilson
  • Projection Design: Mitch Tukkimaki
  • Costume Design: Karen Walker
  • Hair Design: Jesse Beilman
  • Makeup Design: Inderjit Dhanjal
  • Orchestra Director: Neil West

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