Designer Glenn Davidson

Glenn Davidson sat down with the Title Block in August of 2018 to talk old times and design. Among our topics were included the start of the Toronto Fringe Festival and the Poor Alex Theatre Group as well as his early work as an actor and his most recent design work with the Tarragon, Tafalmusik and beyond. Also, if you don’t know what a “golden donut” is, you will have to listen right to the end.

In the production shots below, I have attempted to include all of the credits that we can find, if you know who is featured in the production shots, or the other designers on the project please email us at [email protected].

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University of Ottawa theatre program

Maristella Roca

Michael Stevens - NAC

Bob DeMetril

Richard Pilbrow’s Stage Lighting

Sue LaPage

Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet

The Centre in the Square

Henry V and Mother Courage in rep at NAC, directed by John Wood

Derek Ralston

Joan Orenstein

Loot by Joe Orton at the NAC

Ben Campbell

Edward Atienza

Festival of Classics, Pericles directed by John Wood

Nellie McClung CBC documentary

The Theatre Centre on the Danforth (Now the Music Hall)

Necessary Angel

Autumn Leaf Performance

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

The Piano of Death by Sky Gilbert

Sargent Trowels Legion Hall on Queen St.

SOC - (silent on camera)

Oresteia, libretto by Maristella Roca

Julie Owens (nee bishop) of Theatre Columbus, now Common Boots Theatre with Martha Ross and Leah Cherniak

University of Toronto Drama Dept

Harbourfront Centre

Daniel Brooks

Don McKellar

Tracy Wright

Andrea Lundy

1492 by Theatre Columbus at the Factory Theatre 1992. Sets and Lights by Glenn Davidson. Photo by Glenn Davidson

Jim Millan

Upper Canada Playhouse now Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse

Theatre Columbus’s Melancholia (Durur’s fallen angel)

Michael Simpson

Andy Massingham

Oliver Dennis

The Three Sisters in Banff birthed the Soulpepper

Lazzi

École de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq

The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine by Theatre Columbus written by Robert Morgan, Leah Cherniak, and Martha Ross

Maquette of He Won’t Come In From The Barn by Ted Johns at the Blyth Festival 1994, directed by Paul Thompson, set and costume design by Glenn Davidson, lighting design by Michael Kruse. Photo credit North Huron Publishing.

Paranoia by Theatre Columbus

Cliff Saunders

The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon at Blyth Festival

He Won’t Come In From The Barn at Blyth Festival

Pinocchio by Maristella Roca at Young People’s Theatre 1993, directed by Richard Greenblatt, lighting and sets by Glenn Davidson

Pinocchio at Young Peoples Theatre

Poor Alex Theatre

Roger West

Le Groupe de la Place Royale

Raha Javanfar

Crow’s Theatre

Theatre Smith-Gilmore - there was no 4th company to found Poor Alex Theatre Group

The Augusta Company - Daniel Brooks and Tracy Wright’s company

The Hobbit by Kim Seledoy at Young People’s Theatre, directed by Jim Warren, set and lighting by Glenn Davidson. Costumes and actor credit unknown.

Theatre 2000

Julian Richings, Cheryl May and Gregory Nixon’s Company Flexible Packaging Plant

Hashish by Flexible Packaging Plant

The Fringe Festival

The Palmerston Library

Sneaky Dees

Napalm the Magnificent by David Craig

Sensible Footwear, Alex Dallas, Allison Fields and Wendy Vousden

Lori Hickling

A Chip in the Sugar

Glen Morris Studio Theatre, now the Luella Massey Studio Theatre

Jennifer Brewin

The Alchemical Wedding (Black Theatre) of Hermes Trismegestos by R. Murray Schafer

David Owen film gaffer (head electrician)

John Kelly Cuthbertson

Set-Reset, now Ready Set Recycle

The Tarragon Theatre

Urjo Kereda

Crackwalker by Judith Thompson

Andy McKim

Undercover at the Tarragon

Romeo and Juliet, by Ballet Jorgen, produced by Hong Kong Ballet, sets by Glenn Davidson

Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdeccia

Ectographic Carosel projector

Richard Greenblatt

Rick Roberts

John Stead

Craig Smith, Carpenter at Young People’s Theatre

Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Jackie Maxwell

Martin Zucker, production manager YPT

Maja Ardal

Doctor Dappertutto by Theatre Columbus

Romeo and Juliet by Ballet Jorgen

Leslie Wilkinson

Ted Johns

Tanya Grieve

Crystal Salverda

The Farm Show at The Blyth Festival

Tafelmusik

Alison MacKay

Ontario Arts Council

High Life with Brent Carver