Cédric Delorme-Bouchard - Teaching Artist, Set & Costume Design

Trained in scenography at the undergraduate level and holding a Master’s degree in Theatre from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Cédric Delorme-Bouchard is a Montreal-based director, set designer, and lighting designer. As a set and lighting designer, he has created more than two hundred designs for theatre, dance, and opera across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. His set and lighting designs have received numerous national and international nominations and awards. Among other distinctions, he was selected to represent Quebec at the 14th edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in 2019. On the Montreal stage, he has developed ongoing collaborations as a designer with leading directors, including Philippe Cyr, Éric Jean, Sylvain Bélanger, Angela Konrad, Jérémie Niel, Florent Siaud, Geoffrey Gaquère, Sébastien David, Gabrielle Lessard, Alix Dufresne, and Marc Béland.

In 2018, he founded the creative company CHAMBRE NOIRE, dedicated to staging theatrical works in which the spatial and lighting languages of the stage are central to the creative process. Since its founding, he has directed seven productions with the company in Montreal and Ottawa: Lamelles, Le vaisseau-cœur, Dispositif, Intérieur, Les employés, La nef, and Membrane. From 2018 to 2022, he was an artist-in-residence at Usine C.

Alongside his work as a director and designer, Delorme-Bouchard has taught as a guest professor, coach, internship supervisor, juror, and lecturer at a range of institutions, including the English-language Directing Program at the National Theatre School of Canada, UQAM’s School of Visual and Media Arts, UQAM’s École supérieure de théâtre, the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, the Faculty of Architecture at Université de Montréal, and the Faculty of Architecture at the Université de Bruxelles. Since 2022, he has been a professor in the Theatre Department at Cégep Lionel-Groulx, where he teaches courses in set design.