Michael Gianfrancesco - Shaw Festival Theatre

Michael Gianfrancesco
Set Designer

SHAW 2026: Set Designer for One for the Pot. FOR THE SHAW: designed Just to Get Married, Dracula, A Woman of No Importance, The Divine, The Light in the Piazza, Trouble in Tahiti; sets, The Devil’s Disciple, Cabaret; costumes, The Sea, One Touch of Venus, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days; ELSEWHERE: set and costume designs for theatre, opera and ballet companies across Canada and in the U.S, England and Italy, including 22 seasons at the Stratford Festival; the world premiere of Embrasse (set), Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; Jasper, Yonder Window/Signature Theatre NYC; Emma Bovary, National Ballet of Canada; La Dame aux Camélias (set) Les Grands Ballets Canadiens; Hadrian, Louis Riel, Canadian Opera Company; costume designs for Frame By Frame, National Ballet of Canada/Ex Machina; Hamlet, Ex Machina/Côté Danse; Ricciardo e Zoraide, Rossini Opera Festival; AWARDS: Virgina and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design, Ontario Arts Foundation, Dora award, META awards.

Also onstage in 2026
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One for the Pot

“Genius is more often found in the cracked pot than the whole one …” – E.B. White

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A New Work in Progress

We are thrilled to announce the premiere of a new workshop presentation from 2025 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

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Funny Girl

Ziegfeld found a star. Broadway found a legend.

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