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Boechler, David

Red by John Logan, Citadel Theatre 2011. Directed by Kim Collier, starring Jim Mezon.
Red by John Logan, Citadel Theatre 2011. Directed by Kim Collier, starring Jim Mezon.

Set and costume designer, who has worked across the country and abroad for theatre and ballet productions. He studied at the University of Alberta, at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England, and at the University of Regina.

Among the companies he has designed for are the Stratford Festival (four years) and Shaw Festival (eight years, including design for Getting Married 1999, costumes for Diana of Dobson's 2003 and Nothing Sacred 2004, set and costumes for The Old Ladies); Buddies in Bad Times; Winnipeg Jewish Theatre; and Neptune Theatre (set and costumes for The Devil's Disciple). For his design for Women Beware Women at Northern Light Theatre in 1994, he received the Sterling Award.

Boechler was a designer for three years for Alberta Theatre ProjectsplayRites Festival, designing the Canadian premieres of Michel Marc Bouchard’s Coronation Voyage, Stephen Massicotte’s Mary’s Wedding, and Joan MacLeod’s The Shape of a Girl.

He has also designed for Alberta Theatre Projects, Globe Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, and Theatre Network.

In March, 2000, he designed the premiere of Andrew Moodie's The Lady Smith at Theatre Passe Muraille, and the premiere of the Brad Fraser/Joey Miller musical Outrageous at Canadian Stage (October, 2000).

In 2011, he designed set and costumes for Red for a joint production by Citadel Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, and Canadian Stage, for which he won another Sterling Award.

Boechler aims to merge the artistic elements with the realistic demands of live performance. “You’re keeping two balls in the air – the imaginative creative ball and the practical work-a-day of how this will work. You’re constantly taking the imaginative and placing it on a ground plan and seeing how it works” (quoted in www.torontostandard.com).

Website: davidboechlerdesign.com

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois. Additional information provided by Christopher Hoile and Anne Nothof.

Last updated 2019-06-27