The 22/23 Design Lab provides hands-on experience and mentorship in Lighting Design for live performance. This digital-hybrid program is for emerging designers looking to develop their craft and collaborate with other emerging artists. Participants receive mentorship, experiment in workshops with professional theatre designers, collaborate with emerging playwrights and creators, and have their work shared at the festival. Workshops and labs are designed around the participants’ interests, and include time for experimentation with new equipment, design approaches, and processes in digital and physical space.
This program is supported by the Stratford Festival as the Lead Design Lab Partner.
Max Cameron Fearon
Sooji Kim/김수지
Vishmayaa Jeyamoorthy
Echo Zhou
Echo Zhou (she/they) is a Chinese immigrant, Tkaronto-based scenographer working in live performance. She has designed for Buddies in the Bad Times, Theatre Passe Muraille, Thousand Island Playhouse, Tarragon Theatre, Frog in Hand, The Theatre Centre, The Next Stage Festival, SummerWorks Festival, etc. Her design works have been presented in Canada, Japan and China. She was also a guest artist at Sheridan College. Echo was one of Why Not Theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship cohorts in 2020. Echo is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Recent favourite works include White Girls in Moccasins (Manidoons Collective, Canada), Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Canada), Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Island Playhouse, Canada), Stories in the Woods (Frog in Hand, Canada), Mr. Shi and His Lover (Music Picnic)
For Grandpa.