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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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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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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

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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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Bring It On (2019) – Storybook Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date August 17, 2019

Assistant Lighting Designer

August 17 – September 7, 2019

Set in the high-stakes world of competitive high school cheerleading, Bring It On: The Musical tells the story of Campbell, cheer captain and most popular girl at the uber-affluent Truman High School. Before she can lead her award-winning squad to another win at Nationals, tragedy strikes: School redistricting forces Campbell to transfer to the multi-ethnic Jackson High School. Knocked off her throne as teen queen, Campbell tries to make sense of her new “outsider” status. Soon she discovers that Eva, a plotting sophomore with delusions of grandeur, is responsible for knocking her from the top of the cheer pyramid. With a national title on the line, Campbell must convince Danielle, Jackson’s “it-girl” and leader of hip-hop dance troupe The Crew, to start a cheerleading squad and help bring on some sweet revenge.

Production Team:

Director: Justine Westby
Associate Director: Justine Westby
Music Director: Tara Laberge
Choreographer: Jocelyn Hooover-Leiver
Producer: JP Thibodeau
Stage Manager: Alissa Grams
Production Manager: Jody Low
Lighting Design: JP Thibodeau
Set Design: JP Thibodeau
Sound Design: Kris Mish
Costume Design: Darcie Howe
Hair Design: Cat Bentley
Makeup Design: Cat Bentley

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The Wedding Singer (2019) – Front Row Centre Players

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date June 14, 2019

UPDATE August 25th, 2019: Ian McClellan was the recipient of Outstanding Lighting Design in the Calgary Community Theatre Awards (CAT Awards). Read more here: https://www.calgary-acts.com/docs/2019recipients.pdf

Lighting Designer

June 14 – 29, 2019

It’s 1985, and rock star wannabe, Robbie Hart, is New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.

Production Team:

Director: Danielle Desmarais & Jeffrey Diodati
Music Director: Chelsea Wellman
Choreographer: Danielle Desmarais & Jeffrey Diodati
Vocal Coach: David LeReaney
Intimacy Director: Kristine Astop
Producer: Jamie Eastgaard-Ross
Stage Manager: Henry Falls
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan
Set Design: Alex May
Sound Design: Danelle White
Projection Design: Darren Stewart
Costume Design: Tawni Marie
Hair Design: Stephen Welch
Makeup Design: Stephen Welch
Orchestra Director: Nick Turnbull

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Moby Dick (2019) – Scorpio Theatre

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date May 31, 2019

Co-Lighting Designer & Programmer

May 31 – June 8, 2019

Three small words will transport you into a literary classic, filled with both the perils of nature and the dangers of obsession. Three small words will ignite the story of one man’s relentless and unbending quest for revenge. Three small words will show you all that most maddens and torments and breaks the mind of this one man, and destroys the lives of those who would follow him into the deep.