Lighting & Projections

The Stratford Festival employs many designers, artisans, technicians and craftspeople who work together to create the technical elements of a piece of theatre.  Stratford Festival lighting designers and projection designers who are members of IATSE Local ADC 659, are responsible for the aesthetic choices in lighting and projection design; coordinating with the director, designers in other disciplines, artists, technicians and crafts people to support the overall creative vision.  Technicians who are members of IATSE Local 357 are responsible for the implementation; the programing, building, installation and focusing of these technical elements which support a show at the Festival.  The Festival has an inventory of over 1700 conventional lighting fixtures including a mixture of tungsten halogen, Arc, and LED light sources along with over 100 moving lights of various types.

For projections, the Festival employs media servers and technology from VYV to achieve projection mapping using a sophisticated array of projectors, infrared emitters, and cameras to mesh video content with the live performance.  There are over 20 video projectors in inventory which allow the artist and technicians to layer video in different ways depending on the required configuration for a particular show.

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Design Credits for Images captured on this page:

Frankenstein Revived (banner photo)

• Lighting Design: Kimberly Purtell
  

Salesman in China

• Lighting Design: Sophie Tang
• Projection Design: Chemerik
  

Richard II

• Lighting Design: Leigh Ann Vardy
  

Coriolanus (video)

• Lighting Designer: Laurent Routhier
• Projection: Pedro Pires