Category: Portfolio

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.

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.

Production Team:

Director: Ted Lach
Producer: Daisy Pond
Stage Manager: Daisy Pond
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan & Thomas Hall
Set Design: Ted Lach
Sound Design: Thomas Hall
Costume Design: Rhonda Mottle
Hair Design: Rhonda Mottle
Makeup Design: Rhonda Mottle

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Oliver! (2019) – Central Memorial High School

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date May 21, 2019

Lighting Designer & Programmer

May 21 – 26, 2019

An English musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. After running away from the orphanage run by the heartless Mr. Bumble, Oliver meets the Artful Dodger and is recruited to pick pockets for Fagin.

Production Team:

Director: Michelle Crimmins
Music Director: Sheldon Zandboar
Choreographer: Christine Mooney, Peyton Lake, Christie Preston, & Corinne Vessey
Fight Director: Zakk MacDonald
Producer: Len Simon
Stage Manager: Brinn Web-Sully
Lighting Design: Ian McClellan
Set Design: Dan Moore & Len Simon
Sound Design: Ty McKenzie
Projection Design: Len Simon, Ian McClellan, & Brinn Web-Sully
Costume Design: Victoria Krawchuk
Hair Design: Victoria Krawchuk
Makeup Design: Victoria Krawchuk
Orchestra Director: Sheldon Zandboar

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Avenue Q (2019) – Front Row Centre Players

Post author By Ian McClellan
Post date March 29, 2019

Lighting Programmer

March 29 – April 13, 2019

This laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, it’s clear that this is not your ordinary neighbourhood. Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.