Cameron Porteous | |
|---|---|
 Porteous in 2009 | |
| Born | February 2, 1937 Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Occupation | Production designer |
John Cameron Porteous (born February 2, 1937), better known as Cameron Porteous, is a Canadian set and costume designer. Porteous served as the head of design at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from 1980 to 1997. He is also known for his production designs for films, including the 1991 film Beethoven Lives Upstairs .
Porteous initially started acting in high school, but was more attracted to scenic and costume design; he completed a degree at the Banff School of Fine Arts and began working in design for television. Seeking more training for theatrical design, Porteous studied at the Wimbledon College of Arts in London before returning to Canada in 1969. As a student in London, he was exposed to the work of European and British designers such as Richard Negri, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Joseph Svoboda, and Sean Kenny, and Continental trends became an important influence on his work. [1] He began a long collaboration with the director Christopher Newton as head of design at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company in 1972. At the Shaw Festival, Newton and Porteous championed total design, achieving unity by assigning set and costume designs to the same designer. For the Shaw's ambitious production of Noël Coward's Cavalcade, the North American premiere of the play, Porteous used a hydraulic turntable to transport actors, props and the elaborate set pieces on- and offstage within seconds, and projections to suggest a variety of settings and time periods.
Porteous has also designed for Tarragon Theatre, the National Arts Centre, the Citadel Theatre, Young People's Theatre, and the Vancouver Opera. He has received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for contributions to Canadian theatre. [2]
Julie Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design. Her 2002 film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the 2007 jukebox musical film Across the Universe, based on the music of the Beatles.
Christopher Newton was a Canadian director and actor, who served as artistic director of the Shaw Festival from 1980 to 2002.
Neil Munro was a Scottish-born Canadian director, actor and playwright.
Tatiana Benita Moiseiwitsch was an English theatre designer.
George Tsypin is an American stage designer, sculptor and architect. He was an artistic director, production designer and coauthor of the script for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
Marie Anne Chiment has created sets and costumes for hundreds of productions across the United States for opera, theatre and dance. Chiment’s sets and costumes have been used on the stages of Santa Fe Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Kennedy Center, Wolftrap Opera and Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. She has designed national tours of Grease and Carousel, as well as the GLAMA award winning world premiere of Patience & Sarah for the Lincoln Center Festival.
Robert Wierzel is an American lighting designer.
Richard Hudson is a Zimbabwean stage designer best known for his work for The Lion King, which won him the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art.
William Dudley is a British theatre designer.
The Jessie Richardson Theatre Award is given to recognize achievement in professional theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Jessies are presented by the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Society, at an annual ceremony. The awards are named after Jessie Richardson, co-founder of the Playhouse Holiday Theatre, local actor, director and designer.
Motley Theatre Design Course is a one-year independent theatre design course in London. It was founded at Sadler's Wells Opera in 1966.
Norbert Vesak, one of Canada's leading choreographers in the 1970s, was a ballet dancer, choreographer, theatrical director, master teacher, dance columnist, lecturer, and opera ballet director, known for his unique, flamboyant style and his multimedia approach to classical and contemporary choreography. He is credited with helping to bring modern dance to Western Canada.
Randy Barceló was a Cuban dancer, photographer, interior designer, and all-around artist. He was also known for his set and costume designs for theatre and film.
Jagoda Buić was a Croatian visual artist best known for her monumental fiber art installations and tapestries, which won her critical acclaim in the latter half of the 20th century.
Desmond Heeley was a British set and costume designer who had an active international career in theater, ballet and opera from the late 1940s through the 2010s.
Michael Levine is a Canadian set designer. He is best known for his work in opera, including the scenic design for the Canadian Opera Company's 2006 production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, directed by Atom Egoyan. Levine has also designed productions for Theatre Passe Muraille, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna State Opera, English National Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Dutch National Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, and the National Theatre.
Astrid Janson is a Canadian set designer and costume designer. Best known for her work in theatre, she has also designed for television, opera, dance, film and exhibitions.
Sue LePage is a Canadian set designer and costume designer based in Toronto. She has designed for over 100 theatre productions including ballet and opera.
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, born January 21, 1987, is a Spanish designer working across opera, dance, theater, film, concerts and exhibitions.
Rae Smith is a British set and costume designer who has worked frequently in theatre and Live Art. Her designs can be seen in the Opera Rigoletto which received a South Bank Sky Arts Award as did ‘’[Uncle Vanya ] film and West End Production in 2022. Saint Joan, an Obie Award for Oliver Twist and an Irish Times award for An Ideal Husband. Smith was nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards for The Light Princess, Uncle Vanya and Rosmersholm. Her work on the set of War Horse received particular praise and she received an Olivier, Tony, Evening Standard, Toronto Critics and Drama Desk Special Award. Smith has also worked on several operas and ballets.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
