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Judith Bowden
Judith Bowden has designed for numerous theatres across Canada in the past fourteen years.
Her work has been seen at The Shaw festival over the past six seasons as well as at
CanStage, National Arts Centre, The Globe Theatre, The Grand Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange,
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Soulpepper, Tarragon, Manitoba Theatre Centre and
Great Canadian Theatre Company. She was resident costume designer at Alberta Theatre Projects
from 1996 to 1999. While living in Calgary she also designed for Theatre Calgary, Quest Theatre,
Decidedly Jazz Dance Co., Red Deer College, The Citadel Theatre and The Neptune. Judith has been
awarded a Sterling in Edmonton and three Betty Mitchell Awards in Calgary for costume design,
as well as a Dora Award in Toronto for set design. She also received a Dora nomination this year
for her costume design for Morris Panych's The Government Inspector at Soulpepper. Recent selected
credits include: Belle Moral: A Natural History (Shaw); Blue Planet (LKTYP); The Vaudevilles of
Chekov (NAC); Proof (MTC & The Citadel); Gypsy (Shaw); and The Goat (CanStage). Judith holds a
Master's Degree in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor's Degree in Clothing and Textile Design
from the University of Manitoba.
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Bretta Gerecke
Born in Vancouver and raised in Winnipeg Bretta has resided in Edmonton for the last ten years.
She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Interior Design in 1992, and from the
University of Alberta with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design in 1996. Bretta is the resident designer at Catalyst
Theatre, where she has designed over fifteen world premieres. This award-winning work, originating in Edmonton,
has gone on to tour internationally in Great Britain, Australia, the U.S. and across Canada. Bretta has also
worked extensively at the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Network, Workshop West Theatre, Edmonton Opera, the River
City Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton and CanStage in Toronto. She is the recipient of ten
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Design, and the Enbridge Award for the
Best Emerging Artist. Bretta designed the McNicol summer home on Devil's Lake Alberta, and continues her work as
an archaeological illustrator.
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Anick La Bissonnière
After completing her studies in architecture at universities in Montreal and Lausanne, Anick La Bissonnière began
practising her trade at Agence Odile Decq in Pairs and then by working on nearly 50 auditorium plans for Trizart in
Montreal. At the same time, she quickly gained experience in set design for museums and urban events. Since 1999,
she has developed a special working relationship with director Brigitte Haentjens, with whom she has designed seven
productions hailed by the public and critics alike. While her primary focus has been theatrical productions,
she has also worked in dance, variety shows and television. In recent years, she has taught theatre and event
design at the Université du Québec à Montréal and, lately, in the master’s architecture program at the Université
de Montréal.
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Danièle Lévesque
Renowned Quebec set designer Danièle Lévesque learned the basics of her craft at the National Theatre School of Canada
under the aegis of acclaimed designer François Barbeau. Since her professional debut in 1983, she has created countless
sets for repertory, creative and avant garde theatre as well as dance and opera. She was also responsible for the
remarkable design of the Femmes corps et âme exhibit at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, which received
an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Museums Association. Her work has contributed significantly to
the development of theatrical design in Quebec. She has a recognizable style, a very personal signature. The sets
she creates, often at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and Espace GO, are grand and bare or crammed with all kinds of
objects—cars, aquariums, refrigerators, as for Michel Tremblay’s Bonjour, là, Bonjour (1987) and Réjean Ducharme’s
L’Hiver de force (2002). She has worked with directors with divergent styles, including Brigitte Haentjens,
Alice Ronfard, René Richard Cyr and Lorraine Pintal. With them, she has imaginatively re-created the worlds of Muller,
Euripides, Genet, Molière and, as she did recently for Gauvreau’s L’Asile de la pureté (2004). Since 2002, Danièle
Lévesque has headed the Set and Costume Design program at the National Theatre School of Canada.
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Dany Lyne
Dany is a Montreal born, Toronto based set and costume designer. During the past thirteen years she has
collaborated on over 70 opera, theatre, and music theatre productions in Canada, the United States, and
Europe. Recent collaborations include director Peter Hinton’s The Wrong Son* (2006) for the National
Arts Centre and Into The Woods (2005) for The Stratford Festival; director Nicholas Muni’s Macbeth (2005)
and Pelleas et Melisande (2000) for the Canadian Opera Company, The Maids (2004), The Emperor of Atlantis
(2004), La Voix Humaine (2003), Seven Deadly Sins (2003), Medusa* (2003), and Elektra (2002) for Cincinnati
Opera (USA); director Tim Albery’s Rodelinda (2005) for the Canadian Opera Company, Nathan the Wise (2004)
for Soulpepper Theatre, Idomeneo (2002) for National Reis Opera (Netherlands) and Opera North (England), and
The Abduction from The Seraglio (2001) for De Vlaamse Opera (Belgium); director Catherine Malfitano’s Madama
Butterfly (2005) for Central City Opera (USA); director Tom Diamond’s Norma (2004) for Pacific Opera, Facing
South* (2001) and Iron Road* (2003) for Tapestry New Opera Works, and Giasone (1998) for the Canadian Opera
Company; director Daniel Brooks’ Half Life* (2005) for Necessary Angel Theatre and Tarragon Theatre,
and Phèdre (2003) for Soulpepper Theatre; and director Jeannette Lambermont’s Henry V (2003) for the Stratford
Festival. Dany holds an Interior Design Diploma from Dawson College, a degree in Fine Arts and Theatre
from the Ontario College of Art and Design where she was mentored by Dr. Paul Baker, a full year residency
in Opera Design at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and an MFA with Honours in Set and Costume Design from the
University of Victoria.
* Indicates world premieres.
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