Projection Design & Direction

Laurie-Shawn is represented by: 
Catalyst TCM  
Ian Arnold: 416-568-8673 – ian@catalysttcm.com

PROJECTION DESIGN

• Art of Time Ensemble’s “Who is We”, directed by Daniel MacIvor – 2022, Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto
• Canadian Opera Company’s “Hadrian”, directed by Peter Hinton, composer Rufus Wainwright – 2018, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
• National Ballet of Canada’s “Frame by Frame” directed by Robert Lepage, Choreography by Guillaume Cote – 2018, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
• 20th Anniversary of Canadian Opera Co.’s : Bluebeard’s Castle” & “Erwartung”, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 2015, Toronto
• “the weight of absence” National Ballet of Canada, Hummingbird Centre Toronto, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Brooklyn Academy of Music New York.
• Inaugural Event for Ex Machina, Quebec City.
• “Sommet Technologique ’97”, Ex Machina. Quebec City.
• Canadian Opera Co.’s : Bluebeard’s Castle” & “Erwartung”, O’Keefe Centre Toronto, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Austria, Sydney Australia…
• “RSVP Broadway”, Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto.
• Marketing Awards Gala 1997, Marketing Magazine.
• T.E.D.A.’s Mirvish Tribute, Princess of Wales Theatre.
• Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Anne Reinking’s “Sentimental Journey”.
• Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, “Inner Space”.
• Sheridan Opera House, “My Time Ain’t Long”, Telluride Colorado.
• TV Ontario educational series “Business Management II”.
• Invisions’ Toyota showcase, O’Keefe Centre.
• Rhombus Media film, “September Songs”.
• Canadian Stage Company, “Into The Woods”, St. Lawrence Centre.
• Canadian Stage Company, “Oleanna”.
• Canadian Stage Company, “Poor Superman”.
• Centaur Theatre, “The Master and Margarita”.
• Theatre Direct, “UFOREX”.
• Young People’s Theatre, “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
• Theatre WUM, “Fires in the Mirror”.
• Desrosiers Dance Theater, Lumiere, Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa, New York.
• Carbone 14, Opium, Theatre Festival of the Americas, Montreal.
• Carbone 14, “Marat/Sade”, Montreal.
• Theatre Plus, “Hamlet”, St. Lawrence Centre.
• VideoCabaret, “Second Nature” and “The Great Debate”.
• Claudia Moore’s, “Dragon” and “Cook’s Tale”.

DIRECTION

• VP Creative Services / Blackbox Communications Inc. (2008 – May 2015)
• Executive Creative Director / Interactions, Maritz Canada (2002 – 2008)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “The Greatest Canadian – Pierre Elliot Trudeau” (November 2004)
• National Creative Director, DareStep Canada – a division of Cap Gemini Ernst Young. (2001- 2002)
• Creative Director, ICE inc. (1999 – 2001).
• Creative Director, Playdium Entertainment Corporation (1997 – 1999).
• Creative Director, One World Productions (1988 – 1997).
• Avon of Canada National Conference, for Communique Toronto.
• Aveda International Congress, Minnesota State Theatre.
• Civello Salon Inc., Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis.
• Phyzikal Theatre’s “Hollowed Hal”.
• One World Productions “Propaganda”.
• One World Productions “Fossil”.
• Adapted/Directed multimedia performance of “Briefing for a Descent into Hell” under personal permission of author Doris Lessing.
• Director/Designer “The Sunderland Project”, Factory Lab Theatre. Toronto.
• Co-Director of film “Cloudburst”.
• Over 100 video documents and promotional videos for independent performing artists in dance/music/drama.

PUBLIC SPEAKER / WORKSHOP LEADER

• Guest Speaker at Ontario College of Art – November 2018
• Featured MasterClass Workshop Leader at the University of Art and Design and the Academy of Theatre in Helsinki, Finland (May 2000, March 2001, Sept 2005).
• Featured Speaker at the Prague Quadrennial, New Media and Virtual Reality in Theatre (June 1999).
• Featured Speaker/Workshop Leader at the National Theatre School, Amsterdam (April 1998).
• Featured Speaker at the Communications for a Converging World Symposium and the Annual Congress of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (1998).
• Featured speaker at the World Congress of Scenographers and Theatre Architects, The Future of New Media and Theatrical Design, OISTAT (1997).
• Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, The Integration of Electronic Media and the Theatre, (1997).
• Featured speaker at Electronic Cafe, InterAccess/Cyberstage Magazine, (1997).
• Electronic Media Design, Associated Designers of Canada AGM.
• InterDisciplinary Theatre and Dance, Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, at the National Film Board.
• Multi-media Workshop, National Ballet of Canada’s Dances in the Schools project.
• Digital Video Interface, Commodore Corporation, O.I.S.E

AWARDS

• Houston International Cinema Festival of the Americas, Silver Medal.; Cloudburst
• Laidlaw Foundation Multidisciplinary Performance Award
• Kodak of Canada Chair Fund for the Media Arts
• Canada Council Computer-Integrated Media
• Canada Council Explorations
• Ontario Arts Council Multidisciplinary Project
• Ontario Arts Council Electronic Media
• Ontario Arts Council Individual Professional Development
• Ontario Arts Council Theatre Project
• Toronto Arts Council Interim Project

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Applied Arts, Motion Picture Studies, Ryerson Polytechnical. 1979
• Advanced Stage Direction Program, Theatre Arts Ryerson 1979-81