Hugh Conacher
Lighting Designer

Member of the Associated Designers of Canada   

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DANCE and MUSIC

RUTH CANSFIELD DANCE  formerly  Dance Collective
       Lighting Designer, Production Manger, Stage Manager  since 1989.
       Lighting Designs for over 60 new works, including 8 full length works.
       Adaptation or  redesign of  17 remounted works.  Touring across Canada and the U.S.

WINNIPEG'S CONTEMPORARY DANCERS
       Lighting Designer since 1983.
       Lighting designs for over 160 new works, including 20 full length evenings. Adaptation  or redesign of over         
       50 remounted  works. Lighting Designer/Director for 6 Festivals of  Canadian Modern Dance.
       Co-Productions with Delfos Danza,  Mazatlán, Mexico   
       Touring throughout North America and Mexico.

TRIP DANCE CO.
      2006        Lighting Designer for new works

     
04-05       Lighting Designer for     DIVING GIRL
      2002        Lighting Designer for     LIONHEART TOO  
      2002        Lighting Designer for     LIONHEART TOO
      2001        Lighting Designer for     WANTED & BOLERO
      2001        Lighting Designer for     LYING WITH JOHN
      2000        Lighting Designer for     DRAGGING THE VOLGA
      1999        Lighting Designer for     A CLOUD IN TROUSERS
      1998        Lighting Designer for     LION HEART   
      1997        Lighting Designer for     SOMETIMES SOLO

CUPPA JO SOLO DANCE  since 2003
      Lighting Designer, Production Manager at Home and on Tour

THEATRE FLAMENCO – Claire Marchand
      2005 Lighting designer for LA MAJA
      03-04 Lighting Designer for MARIPOSA: THE BUTTERFLY’S EVIL SPELL
      2002 Lighting Designer for SYMBIOSIS

WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's Centara New Music Festival
       Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager, 1992 - 2002

WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL   2003
        Main Stage Lighting Designer

BILL EVANS DANCE    2002
       Lighting Designer for his Summer Season, 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico

JULIA SASSO DANCES    2002, 2003
        Lighting Designer for  BEAUTY

ONE LAST DANCE    2001
        Lighting Designer    A feature film written and directed by Lisa Niemi,  starring Patrick Swayze 

MARI OSANAI
       2001       Lighting Designer for    SYMBIOSIS

AS LONG AS NOW    2001
      Lighting Designer    Choreography:  Brent Lott and Christina Medina

BALLET BC                2001 - 2002
       Lighting Director for  FAERIE QUEEN on tour across Canada 

RACHEL BROWNE       1985 - 2002
      Lighting Design for over 30 New Works

JUMPSTART  PERFORMANCE, 1999
      Lighting Designer for DESPERATELY SEEKING choreographed by Lee Eisler 

CANADA DANCE FESTIVAL  at the National Arts Centre  1990, 1992, 1994, 1996
      Lighting Designer/Director

FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE  Dancing on the Edge Festival 1993 - 1996
      Lighting Designer/Director

JOURNEY         1997
      Lighting Designer      A film for Bravo, choreographed by Patti Clapette and directed by Barbara Sweatman.

JOE LAUGHLIN, Vancouver   1995
      Lighting Designer for:  SCAFFOLDING

EDAM PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY  1993
      Lighting Designer/Technical Director

ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET   1993
      Lighting Designer for:  THE SLEEPING BEAUTY,    RODEO

 

THEATRE

THEATRE CALGARY
      2004       Lighting Designer for     FIRE and COUNCILLOR AT LAW
      2002       Lighting Designer for     STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
                      Nominated for a 2003 Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Lighting Design 

MANITOBA THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
     
2005  Lighting Designer for  DYING TO BE THIN
      2004  Lighting Designer for  THE POWER OF HARRIOT T!
      2003  Lighting Designer for  THE HAPPY PRINCE
      2002  Lighting Designer for  DANNY, KING OF THE BASEMENT
      2000  Lighting Designer for  BOY IN THE TREEHOUSE national tour
      Resident Lighting Designer, 3  seasons- 15 shows - early 80's
      also Lighting Designer for 8 shows, 1986-88, 1993

SHAKESPEARE IN THE RUINS
      2004       lighting Designer for        MACBETH 
(at MTYP)

WINNIPEG JEWISH THEATRE
      2002       Lighting Designer for  THE CHOSEN

THE BRIDGE         October 2000
       Lighting Designer and Production Manager for a world premiere Manitoba musical by Danny Schur

ENGLISH SUITCASE THEATRE COMPANY
      1998 - 1999       Lighting Designer for     MACBETH      across Canada
      1999 - 2000       Lighting Designer for     HAMLET          across Canada

TOUCHSTONE THEATRE    1999
      Lighting Designer  for   CHERRY DOCS 
      Nominated for the 1999 Jessie Awards, Best Lighting Design, Large Theatre Category

DE-BA-JEH-MU-JIG THEATRE GROUP
      1995  Lighting Designer/Production Manager for  LUPI  U.S. Tour
      1993  Lighting Designer for: NEW VOICES WOMAN
      1991, 1992 Lighting Designer for: LUPI, THE GREAT WHITE WOLF

PRAIRIE THEATRE EXCHANGE
      1992        Lighting Designer for:   DOG AND CROW
      1986-87  Lighting Designer for:   THE REVIVAL,  PAPER BAG PRINCESS

MANITOBA OPERA ASSOCIATION  1992
      Lighting Designer for:  HANSEL AND GRETEL Tour

MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE, THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE
      Resident Lighting Designer, '89-'90 season- 4 shows
      also Lighting Designer for 2 shows, Spring, 1989

MAGNUS THEATRE
      Lighting Designer for  7 shows, 1989 - 1991, 1994

THEATRE NEW BRUNSWICK
      1990 Lighting Designer for:    LOOT
      1987  Lighting Designer for:   GUYS AND DOLLS

40 BELOW MIME       1985-89
      Lighting Designer for:   FUTURE SHOKK and THE IMMIGRANT
      Lighting Designer/Director for  5  International Festivals of   Contemporary Mime.

RAINBOW   STAGE       Dec. 1987
      Lighting Designer for:   ANNE  OF  GREEN  GABLES

Also: 
Wanda Koop, visual artist, in Venice, Italy, 2001;  Guest Lecturer at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba; Resident Lighting Designer for the School of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers;  Winnipeg Fringe Festival; Dancing off the Edge Festival, Calgary, 1993;  Producer/Lighting Designer for the Financial Post Awards, 1993; Margie Gillis Dance Foundation, 1986 - 1989;  assistant lighting designer, Stratford Festival, 1985 - 1989;  assistant lighting designer at MTC, 1993, 2000

Strong interest in Photography with several exhibitions of my work to my credit and much experience as Archival Photographer for Stage Production.

Film and Video Adaptation:  
Lighting designed for film and video adaptations of many dance works with such companies as Contemporary Dancers and Ruth Cansfield Dance.  Also, while assistant lighting designer at the  Stratford Festival,  adaptations of Festival productions for CBC Television.  

Touring Experience:
Over 20 years of touring as Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Stage Manager, Technical Director, Tour Manager to most major centers in North America and Mexico, as well as Great Britain, Europe, Taiwan and India.