Ensemble Bios

Sue LePage

Returning for her fifteenth season with The Shaw, Ms Sue LePage designs sets and costumes for Ragtime.

Previous Shaw design credits include Maria Severa (costumes), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Age of Arousal, Harvey, Born Yesterday, Ways of the Heart, Getting Married, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Saint Joan, for both the Shaw Festival and Chicago’s Shakespeare Theatre; Arms and The Man (set), The Magic Fire, Bus Stop, Something on the Side, Pygmalion, Three Sisters, His Majesty, Candida (set), Peter Pan, The Doctor’s Dilemma, You Can’t Take It With You and Uncle Vanya.

Design credits elsewhere include Death of a Salesman, August Osage County (Citadel Theatre); The Seafarer (MTC), Lillian Alling (Vancouver Opera); The Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre); Loot, Black Comedy and The Real Inspector Hound (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Doubt, a Parable (Citadel Theatre), The Group of Seven Nutcracker and Anastasia (Ballet Jorgen Canada) and the set for Judith Thompson’s Body and Soul. She created the original set and costume designs for Frobisher, and Filumena, the new operas by John Estacio and John Murrell, produced by The Banff Centre and Calgary Opera. Filumena has also appeared at The National Arts Centre and CBC Television.

A recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Sue has designed more than 200 productions including original productions of plays by Canada’s finest writers such as James Reaney, David French, Mavis Gallant, Judith Thompson, John Murrell, Timothy Findley and Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Other selected theatre credits include Fishwrap, Capture Me, Side Man, Soldier’s Heart, Perfect Pie, A Memory of Water and The Four Lives of Marie (Tarragon Theatre); The Lonesome West, Billy Bishop Goes to War (and national tour), The Glorious 12th, Dancing at Lughnasa and Death and the Maiden (Canadian Stage Company); and Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, No Exit, The Human Voice and The Elephant Song (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Sue has also worked at theatre across Canada including Charlottetown Festival, Citadel Theatre, Theatre Columbus, Factory Theatre, The Grand Theatre (London, ON), Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, National Arts Centre, Native Earth, Neptune Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Theatre Calgary and Vancouver Playhouse.

An honours graduate of the University of Guelph, her true apprenticeship was working backstage in many capacities and as an assistant designer.