Category: Scenic

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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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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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.