About the residency
Long-term Design Residencies for artists with several years of experience. Design residents are selected by the Program Director.
This residency is possible thanks to a major gift from the estate of Jenepher Margaret Hooper (Set and Costume Design, 1967).
Made possible thanks to the support of the Jenepher Margaret Hooper Fund, this residency program aims to promote the educational and artistic contribution of a resident designer who acts as a mentor to the students for a full year. NTS’s Set and Costume Design program enjoys a high degree of flexibility in the construction and implementation of its educational curriculum. We believe that a strong program is a constantly evolving program, adapted to the reality and the needs of the arts community. In this spirit, we are looking for a person who can stimulate students’ learning and bring an outside perspective on the curriculum to the program director. A new person is selected each year to fill this position. The resident receives a salary for the duration of the residency.
Call for application : Apply before March 10, 2025
REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY FOR THE RESIDENCY
Candidates must:
- Have relevant experience as a scenographer and/or costume designer to be able to share their knowledge with students;
- Be eager to learn and share their own experiences with the NTS community;
- Bilingual.
Diversity in all its forms will drive the sector forward. Therefore, candidates from all backgrounds, communities, orientations, and abilities are encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY ?
Please send your resume (PDF format, maximum 3 pages), your cover letter, and 2 letters of reference to
info@ent-nts.ca before March 10, 2025, with Jenepher Margaret Hooper Design Residency in the subject line. The cover letter must answer the following:
- Tell us about your artistic process and your work ethic.
- What motivates you to mentor students?
- What do you hope to gain from this residency?
- What do you believe are the current issues related to the practice of scenography?
- Why do you choose to do a residency at this point in your career?
Structure of the residency
The residency is composed of three distinct components: coaching, ongoing exchange and teaching. The resident would work on one or several of these components, depending on their interests and the needs of the program as determined by the program director.
Coaching component
- Encourage 2nd- and/or 3rd-year students in their creative process as they design sets and/or costumes for graduate productions.
- Support 2nd- and/or 3rd-year students in the development of their skills in management, leadership and in understanding of their artistic practice.
- Provide support during production meetings, fittings, meetings with technical and construction teams, heads of shops.
- Collaborate with the program director to promote the pedagogical development of each student.
Educational component
- Encourage students to deepen their practice through various means (meetings, readings, workshops, etc.).
- Supervise students in a set and/or costume project.
- Develop a creative project with the students.
- Participate in certain steps of the new candidate selection process.
Ongoing exchange component
- Create, in collaboration with the program director, an inspiring project that will promote the creation of ressources which facilitate the students’ creative process.
Jenepher Margaret Hooper Residents / 2024-2025
Pierre-Étienne Locas
Scénographe gradué de l’École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada en 2005, Pierre-Étienne Locas conçoit des décors, costumes et accessoires pour la scène. Il complète sa pratique avec l’enseignement et en menant divers projets de design, de scénographie muséale, d’illustrations et d’installations sculpturales.
Les crédits de théâtre incluent entre autres: Caligula (TNM), Dance me (BJM), Le meilleur des mondes (Denise-Pelletier), Le chant de Sainte-Carmen de la main (Spectra), Don Giovanni (Opéra de Mtl), La délivrance (d’Aujourd’hui), Courir l’Amérique (PàP), Yellow Moon (Manufacture), Le Joker (Quat’sous), Le fils (Rideau vert), The Madonna Painter (Centaur), Le vrai Monde (Duceppe), Ça (JPR), The Droplet (Riks Teatret – Oslo/Norvège).
Lauréat du masque de révélation de l’année ainsi que du masque de la conception de décor 2005-2006 pour la conception du décor de W;t (Théâtre de Quat’sous). Récipiendaire du Prix Olivier Reichenbach 2008 remis par le TNM pour la conception du décor et des accessoires de la pièce Elizabeth, roi d’Angleterre. Lauréat des METAs – Outstanding set design 2014-15 pour la conception du décor de Travesties (Segal centre) et 2018-19 pour la conception du décor de A doll’s house part 2. Lauréat du Prix du public Créations-sur-le-champ Land art 2017 pour la réalisation de l’œuvre “Tronqué”. Prix de la critique Meilleur concepteur 2021-22 pour la conception du décor de La métamorphose (Denise-Pelletier).
Gillian Gallow
Gillian is a set and costume designer based in Toronto, and in 2021 she received the Siminovitch Prize, an award which celebrates transformative and influential theatre artists.
Gillian has collaborated with theatre companies across the country, most notably with the Canadian Opera Company, designing costumes for the world premieres of Hadrian in 2018 and for Louis Riel in 2017. She has spent many seasons at the Shaw Festival, currently designing set and costumes for The Shadow of a Doubt. Other collaborations include the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, and The National Arts Centre, to name a few. Upcoming she is designing the set and costumes for tremblements at ESPACE GO and the set for Beautiful at the Segal Centre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
In 2018, Gillian received the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume design, she’s received four Dora Mavor Moore awards and her work has been recognized across Canada with nominations for Calgary’s Betty Awards, Edmonton’s Sterling Awards, Winnipeg’s Evie Awards, and Ottawa’s Capital Critics’ Circle.
Gillian is a graduate of York University’s theatre design program.
