Michael Gianfrancesco - Teaching artist, Set and Costume Design, Directing

Michael Gianfrancesco is best known for his work designing sets and costumes for theatre, musical theatre, opera, and dance productions across Canada. He has worked in repertory with the Stratford Festival and Shaw Festival, and has designed productions for Canadian Opera Company, National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Opera Atelier, Canadian Stage Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Grand Theatre, Ross Petty Productions, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Segal Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Studio 180, Against the Grain, Young People’s Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre Panik, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, The Royal Conservatory of Music and Opera Ontario. Michael’s set design for Cabaret at the Shaw Festival was featured at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space in 2015.
Recent projects include the set design for the world premiere of Hadrian, written by Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor, at the Canadian Opera Company, the costumes for Ricciardo e Zoraide at the Rossini Festival in Italy, costumes for Frame by Frame directed by Robert Lepage and choreographed by Guillaume Côté for Ex Machina and The National Ballet of Canada, set designs for The Music Man and The Rocky Horror Show at the Stratford Festival, and the world premiere of The Hockey Sweater: A Musical at the Segal Centre.
Michael is a recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design from the Ontario Arts Foundation, META awards for set and costume design, a Dora Mavor Moore award for set design, a Tyrone Guthrie Award, the David Edney Travel Grant and the Brian Jackson Award from the Stratford Festival.

Updated: July 7 2022

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