Zaheer-Abbas Janmohamed Tabla, Music contributions & Music Coordinator
Kevin Lamotte Lighting Designer
Kevin has created lighting designs for many international performing arts companies. Recent productions include Mahabharata (Shaw Festival, Barbican), The Secret Garden, Gem of the Ocean, Desire Under the Elms (Shaw Festival), A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), Traviata (Opéra de Montréal), Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria) and L’ Histoire du Soldat (Art of Time). Kevin’s awards for outstanding lighting design include the Pauline McGibbon Award and the Dora Award. He is the Director of Lighting Design at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake.
Zaheer-Abbas is a Toronto-based tabla player who brings the tradition of tabla to new contexts through his artistic practice and collaborations. He has played extensively in Toronto with various local artists at many of the city’s well-known venues. He has performed across Canada in a variety of classical, semi-classical and contemporary settings, including appearances such as Sonic Landscapes (Surbahar) with Ustad Irshad Khan, Sufi folk music of Mukhtiyar Ali and Rifflandia Festival.
Creative Team
Mikael Kangas Associate Lighting Designer
Lorenzo Savoini Set Designer
Mikael designs lights for theatre, opera, dance, events and film. His recent work includes Wozzeck, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, Fantasma (Canadian Opera Company), Anything Goes, My Fair Lady, The Amen Corner, Damn Yankees, Trouble in Mind, Glass Menagerie, O’Flaherty VC (Shaw Festival), Chris Mrs. (Boldy Productions), Just for One Day, In Dreams and & Juliet (Mirvish). Mikael is the Lighting and Projection Design Coordinator for the Canadian Opera Company and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and United Scenic Artists.
Lorenzo is an award-winning set, costume and lighting designer for theatre, ballet and opera. His work has been seen throughout Canada, United States, England and Cuba. Most recently, he designed the set and lighting for Winter Solstice (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage), set for The Sound of Music (The Grand Theatre), set and lighting for London Assurance , set and costumes for Hedda Gabler (Stratford Festival) and set for My Fair Lady (Shaw Festival). Lorenzo has received five Dora Awards and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.
Gillian Gallow Costume Designer
Hana S. Kim Projection Designer
Gillian is a set and costume designer based in Canada who has collaborated with theatre companies across the country, most notably with the Canadian Opera Company, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Espace Go, Rideau Vert, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, RMTC and The National Arts Centre, to name a few. Gillian is a graduate of York University’s Theatre Design Program and has received the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume Design, a Meta Award, four Dora Mavor Moore awards and was the 2021 Siminovitch Prize Laureate.
Hana is an immersive media designer and a visual artist for live performances. Recent credits include The Outsiders at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, The Old Man & The Pool at the Lincoln Center Theater, Summer 1976 at the MTC, Orfeo at the Santa Fe Opera and The Harder They Come at Public Theater. She is a recipient of Tony Awards, the Princess Grace Awards in Theater Design, Richard Sherwood Award from CTG and Kinetic Lighting Award for distinguished achievement in theatrical design from LA Drama Critics Circle.
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