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Droege, Stephan

Stephan Droege
Stephan Droege

Ontario-based production designer, technical director, and instructor, Stephan Droege has designed for several hundred plays, operas, ballets, concerts and installations for a wide range of Canadian and international performance companies since 1981. Primarily, however, he is committed to the development of new Canadian plays and multi-cultural performance.

He studied at John Abbott College in Montreal, and began his career as an actor, performing in the premieres of Gaëtan Charlebois' Wonderland! and Michael, among others.

After moving to Toronto, he began to design, and soon became renowned for working imaginatively within the constraints of tight budgets. Among the companies he has worked with are Buddies in Bad Times (several productions, including The Water Crawlers 2000); Canadian Stage (the premiere of John Mighton's Possible Worlds); Théâtre Français de Toronto (Jean-Marc Dalpé's Le Chien); and the premiere of Jonathan Wilson's Kilt at Tarragon Theatre (April, 1999). He also designed for Young People's Theatre's production of The Prince and the Pauper (November, 1999); Topological Theatre's The Mother's Saint (February, 2000) and for their co-production with Japan's Kageboushi Theatre of Lulie the Iceberg (National Arts Centre).

Festival Productions include: Cezanne Syndrome and Riot for du Maurier World Stage (Toronto); Steel Kiss for the Carrefour International de Théâtre (Quebec City); and productions of Aurash and Macbeth for Modern Times Stage Company at the 20th and 21st Fadjr International Theatre Festivals (Tehran).

About his approach to his work, he told Keith Garebian for Theatrum in 1994, "When in doubt, be bold."

He has been nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award fourteen times and has won once for Gargoyle (Platform 9 Theatre Company).

He lives with his partner, actor Jacoba Knaapen, with whom he has two children.

Source: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/droegecreative

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Last updated 2020-07-13