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St-Aubin, François

François St-Aubin
François St-Aubin

Quebec-based costume designer who has worked continuously since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1984. He has designed costumes for eighty stage productions and twelve operas, including for Robert Lepage's stunning production of the Ring Cycle at New York's Metropolitan Opera (2010-12).

St-Aubin has worked several times with image-driven director René Richard Cyr, including En pièces détachées (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde/TNM); L'Éveil du Printemps (Théâtre de Quat'Sous); Apprentissage des Marais (Espace Go). For Claude Poissant, he provided magnificent costumes for the TNM production of Le Prince travesti. In 1998 he designed for the difficult Claude Gauvreau work, Les oranges sont vertes (TNM), and followed at the same theatre in March in 1999 with the Le Barbier de Seville by Beaumarchais (directed by Cyr and which won a Masque Award in February, 2000 for best costumes), and in October, 1999 with Normand Chaurette's Stabat Mater II (directed by Lorraine Pintal).

In February 2000, he designed the premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard's Sous le regard des mouches (directed by the author, Compagnie Jean-Duceppe), and in April, 2001, Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui's world premiere of Dominic Champagne's La Caverne.

Rheinmaidens, Das Rheingold, Metropolitan Opera, 2010.
Rheinmaidens, Das Rheingold, Metropolitan Opera, 2010.

St-Aubin designed costumes for the Stratford Festival in 2004, 2006, and 2007. He has also worked in France and Mexico.

In 2014, he was appointed Director of Set and Costume/Scénographie at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Paired with an unerring appreciation for period and character, François St-Aubin has an uncanny sense of what looks good on stage.

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois. Updated by Anne Nothof.

Last updated 2021-11-02