Designer Lorenzo Savoini

Lorenzo Savoini is the director of design at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto, one of the most successful theatres to be founded in the last 20 years and one that continues to push the envelope on what theatre can or should be. Lorenzo tells me about his time growing up in Thorn Hill Ontario and his adventures at UBC, Stratford and for the last 10 years, at Soulpepper. For the second half of this marathon interview, we chat about his philosophy of design and how he is working to develop the next generation of designers who face a world that is both uncertain but alive with potential. We recorded the interview in May of 2016 in the Soulpepper library.

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Leaving Home by David French

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

University of Guelph Theatre Arts

Alan Watts (see "Sculpted Spaces: Jim Plaxton in conversation with Alan Watts, from Canadian Theatre Review #54)

Canadian Art magazine

Michael Levine

Daryl Cloran

House by Daniel MacIvor

Alan Stitchbury

University of British Columbia MFA in Theatre

Robert Gardiner

Peter Brook

Josef Svoboda

Simon McBurney

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

Wagner's The Ring Cycle by Michael Levine

Rauri Murchison

The Sound of Music at The Stratford Festival 2001

Richard Monette

Timon of Athens at The Stratford Festival 2004

Stephen Ouimette

Tanya Moiseivitch

Desmond Healey

Michael Gianfrancesco

Dana Osborn

Chris Abraham

Deborah Hanson

Theatrefront

Return (The Sarajavo Project)

Umbuntu (The Capetown Project)

Claire Sakaki

László Marton

The Soulpepper Academy

BLiNK by the 2010 SoulpepperAcademy

Of Human Bondage by Sommerset Maughm at Soulpepper Theatre

Gregory Prest

Raquel Duffy

Diego Matamoras

John Cage

Richard Feren

CAGE at Soulpepper Theatre

Mies van der Rohe

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, Soulpepper Theatre, Director:  Alan Dilworth, Set and Costume Design:  Lorenzo Savoini, Lighting Design:  Kim Purtell, Sound Design:  Debashis Sinha, Actors:  Michelle Monteith, Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster, Oyin Oladejo, 

Euridice by Sarah Ruhl

Albert Schultz

Alan Dilworth

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Daniel Brooks

Racial diversity in Canadian Theatre 

Storefront Theatre

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Soulpepper Theatre
Director:  Daniel Brooks, Set design: Lorenzo Savoini, Lighting Design: Kevin Lamotte, Sound Design:  Richard Feren, Actors:  Katherine Gauthier, Christopher Morris

Shannon Lee Doyle

Anahita Dehbonehie

Associated Designers of Canada

Prague Quadrennial

Cloud 9 by Carol Churchill

Peter Hartwell

Robin Phillips and the Young Company at Stratford

Soulpepper's ImagiNation

Marie Brassard

Pamela Sinha's Happy Place

Ken MacKenzie

Mike Ross

Sarah Wilson

Incident at Vichy at Soulpepper

Testament of Mary at Soulpepper

Mike Ledermueller

Kevin Lamotte

(Re)Birth: E.E. Cummings poetry project at Soulpepper