Live Design Experiment #3

Presenters: Christine ML Lee, Hugh Conacher, Kimira Reddy, Sammy Chien

Host: T. Erin Gruber

About the Presenters

Christine ML Lee is a composer, playwright and poet interested in the intersection between music, movement and storytelling. Working with dance and spoken word, her music has been performed at Festival Quartiers Danses and in Montreal Botanical Gardens. Based out of Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Christine is currently part of Nightwood Theatre’s Young Innovators Unit 2020-2021 and is working on a musical theatre piece, Just a Note, following development with the CMTWC with Jonathan Monro and with Playwright’s Workshop Montreal’s YCU with Jesse Stong.

Hugh Conacher (he/him) is a Treaty 1 based lighting and multi-media designer, and a photographer. He has collaborated with choreographers, directors, visual artists, and dance and theatre companies throughout Canada and around the world, in venues large and small. He approaches each project as an individual work of art. His photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide.

Kimira Reddy is a Set and Props Designer based in BC. She uses virtual reality as a concept tool for set design and creates an immersive VR walk-through of the final product. Originally from South Africa, she holds an MFA in Design from UBC and a Bachelor’s in Performing Arts Technology. Credits: Set design for Zoning Out (Blackout Theater), No Child (The Arts Club);The Turn of the Screw (Aenigma Theatre); Romance, Relationships, Rights (UBC Centre for Inclusion & Citizenship partnering with Community Living Society); Burqa Boutique, The Way You Carry On, Fireflies (Killjoy Theatre); The Crucible (UBC Theatre). Assistant Set Design for Birds and The Bees (The Arts Club); The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in Love, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus (Bard on the Beach). Prop design for Foolish Operations; Seussical JR., The Time Machine (Gateway); The Suppliant Women (United Players)

Sammy Chien 簡上翔 is a Taiwanese-Canadian immigrant and queer artist-of-colour, who’s an interdisciplinary artist, director, designer, performer, researcher and mentor in film, sound art, new media, performance, movement and spiritual practice. His work has been exhibited across Canada, Western Europe, and Asia including Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), worked with pioneers of digital performance: Troika Ranch and Wong Kar Wai’s Cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and active in projects engaging various underrepresented communities. Sammy has been featured on magazines, TV and commercials such as Discorder, Keedan, CBC Arts and BenQ. Sammy is the official instructor of Isadora and Artistic Director of Chimerik似不像 collective.