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.
