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Hand, Jason

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Jason Hand

Toronto-based lighting designer, who works in theatre and opera. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours from York University.

Jason Hand’s theatre credits include: Dear Johnny Deere (Theatre Calgary 2015), The Blue Planet (Young People’s Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Arsonists (Canadian Stage); The Trespassers (Stratford Festival); The Amorous Adventures of Anatol (Tarragon Theatre 2013, adapted by Morris Panych, with set designer Ken MacDonald); The Ugly One (Theatre Smash); See How They Run (Theatre Aquarius); Gorey Story, Peer Gynt (The Thistle Project); Man of Mode, Princess Ivona (George Brown College); and The Melville Boys, Self Help, and The Fly Fisher’s Companion (Lighthouse Theatre Festival).

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The Arsonists, Canadian Stage 2012
Lighting by Jason Hand; director Morris Panych; set design by Ken MacDonald.
Photo by Bruce Zinger

He has also designed lighting for operas including Turn of the Screw, La Bohème, (Against the Grain Theatre); Dido & Aeneas (Opera on the Avalon); Guilio Cesare (Orchestra London); Figaro’s Wedding (Against the Grain 2012); and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Edmonton Opera 2013) in collaboration with director Joel Ivany and set designer Camellia Koo. In 2011, I Capuletti e i Montecchi (Against the Grain), for which he was lighting designer in collaboration with Ivany and Koo, placed third in the biennial European Opera-Directing Prize.

He has been the assistant lighting designer on over 25 operas at the Canadian Opera Company.

In 2012, Jason Hand was selected as a protégé by Robert Thomson for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for outstanding lighting design.

Website: www.jasonhandlighting.com

Last updated 2021-01-21