Jason Hand
Latest News on Jason Hand:
Review: CARMEN Burns Bright in Canadian Opera Company's Latest Production (Oct 25, 2022)
Review: TOSCA Thrills Edmonton (Oct 24, 2022)
Video: Watch the Trailer for CARMEN at Canadian Opera Company (Oct 18, 2022)
Review: CARMEN Burns Bright in Canadian Opera Company's Latest Production (Oct 25, 2022)
Review: TOSCA Thrills Edmonton (Oct 24, 2022)
Video: Watch the Trailer for CARMEN at Canadian Opera Company (Oct 18, 2022)
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Jason is a Toronto-based designer working in theatre and opera. He has built a reputation for developing innovative lighting designs for site-specific productions with Against the Grain and Tapestry New Opera. His passion is creating the lighting for large-scale musicals and operas, and for new works. Jason has lit productions at several of Canada?s largest opera companies including the Canadian Opera Company & Vancouver Opera (Carmen), Edmonton Opera (The Tales of Hoffmann*). In 2014, made his American debut with Macbeth at the Minnesota Opera Company. He has worked with acclaimed directors Tim Albery (Imeneo*, Dido and Aeneas*, M?Dea Undone**), Paul Curran (The Rape of Lucretia*) and Tom Diamond (The Marriage of Figaro, Oksana G.**). His theatre designs include productions for the Stratford Festival (The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Trespassers**), Young People?s Theatre (Mary Poppins, Blue Planet, James and the Giant Peach, Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang**, Seussical), Tarragon Theatre (Hamlet, Enemy of the People, Peace River Country**, The Summoned**, Abyss**, Sequence, The Ugly One), Canadian Stage (This, The Arsonists, A Midsummer Night?s Dream, The Winter?s Tale), and the Shaw Festival (Arms and the Man), as well as Theatre Calgary, Drayton Entertainment, and the Soulpepper Theatre Company. In 2015, Jason was invited to become the Resident Lighting Designer for Against the Grain Theatre, cementing a relationship with the company that extends from the company?s first fully-mounted production. For Joel Ivany and AtG, Jason has lit La Boh me**, Turn of the Screw*, Figaro?s Wedding**, Pell as et M lisande*, Death and Desire**, #UncleJohn**, AtG?s Messiah, A Little Too Cozy**, Bound, and Kopernikus*. He has also lit Ayre which has been remounted internationally. Jason is a regular guest instructor the National Theatre School of Canada and Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2011, Jason collaborated with director Joel Ivany and designer Camellia Koo to conceive a production of I Capuletti e i Montecchi that placed third in the biennial European Opera-Directing Prize. He has been nominated eight times for Dora Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design, and is a prot g recipient of the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. He has won a Montreal English Theatre Award for his lighting of the NAC/Centaur co-production of The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. Jason holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University. After completing his studies, Jason continued his education by working as an assistant and associate designer on over 40 major productions with noted international designers such as Thomas Hase, Max Keller, Peter van Praet & Robert Carsen, Robert Thomson, Bonnie Beecher, Michael Whitfield, and Alan Brodie. Upcoming projects include projects at the Charlottetown Festival, Tarragon Theatre, and a new production of The Louder We Get (formerly Prom Queen the Musical) at Theatre Calgary.. Jason holds both American and Canadian citizenship, and makes his home in Toronto with his wife and his daughters. *indicates new opera production **indicates world premier
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Review: CARMEN Burns Bright in Canadian Opera Company's Latest Production
Quite possibly one of the best known opera comiques, CARMEN has returned to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts’ stage in a bright blaze.
Review: TOSCA Thrills Edmonton
One of the world’s most beloved operas takes centre stage in Edmonton.
Video: Watch the Trailer for CARMEN at Canadian Opera Company
Two dazzling mezzo-sopranos take centre stage in the Canadian Opera Company's Carmen by Georges Bizet. The wildly popular opera draws audiences into a high-stakes game between soldiers, smugglers, and a superstar bullfighter, all vying for the attention of fiercely independent Carmen. Watch the trailer here!
Canadian Opera Company Presents CARMEN Featuring Must-See, All-Star Cast
Two dazzling mezzo-sopranos take centre stage in the Canadian Opera Company's Carmen by Georges Bizet.
March Concerts Announced At The Royal Conservatory Of Music
March concerts have been announced at The Royal Conservatory Of Music including Live Life Now, Live Music Again @ Koerner Hall, Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrate Dave Brubeck, The Glenn Gould School Opera presents George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo in Koerner Hall, Jeremy Denk with Les Violons du Roy, Galilee Chamber Orchestra, Saleem Abboud Ashkar, and Jon Kimura Parker, Pianist Seong-Jin Cho and cellist Mischa Maisky return to Koerner Hall, ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) celebrates 20th anniversary season, and more.
ENCANTO Sets Digital & Blu-Ray Release
Fans can enjoy a sing-along movie version, never-before-seen bonus features and deleted scenes when Encanto arrives on all major digital platforms this holiday season on December 24 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD.
Casting Announced for Lonny Price-Helmed THE LOUDER WE GET at Theatre Calgary
Theatre Calgary's Artistic Director Stafford Arima (Allegiance, Broadway; Carrie, Off-Broadway revival; Altar Boyz, Off-Broadway), along with Solo Productions' Mary Young Leckie (Maudie, Mary's Wedding), have just announced the creative team and casting for The Louder We Get, based on the true story of Marc Hall, with book by Kent Staines, lyrics by Akiva Romer-Segal, and music by Colleen Dauncey.
Full Company Announced for ATLANTIC BLUE at The Charlottetown Festival
Confederation Centre of the Arts welcomes Tara MacLean's ode to Canada's East Coast to The Charlottetown Festival. Sponsored by Honibe, Atlantic Blue open this Friday August 2 at 7:30 p.m. and plays Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights through September 27, 2019 at The Mack. The title sponsor of The Charlottetown Festival is CIBC.
40th Annual Dora Awards Nominations Announced: Soulpepper Takes Home 25 Nominations, DEAR EVAN HANSEN Taps 9 Noms
At a press conference held May 28 in the Davies Takacs Lobby of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 282 nominations for the 40th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto. On Tuesday, June 25 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 49 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Silver Ticket Award and the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award will be presented.
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Now On Stage In Stratford
Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino brings Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor close to home with a joyous production set in a small town not unlike Stratford, Ontario, in 1953, the year the Festival began.
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL MAN Blasts Gender Roles in Film and Television Through Satire
What would a world where women held power and men were nothing more than eye-candy and tools for reproduction look like? How would women maintain that power, and what would happen to the men who lived there?
Factory Theatre's BEAUTIFUL MAN, directed by Andrea Donaldson, looks at all of this and more with exceptional use of satire - sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, and always accurate to what women experience in their day-to-day life.
Lonny Price Will Direct Canadian Prom Musical THE LOUDER WE GET at Theatre Calgary
BroadwayWorld has learned that Lonny Price will direct a production of the musical THE LOUDER WE GET at Theatre Calgary as part of their 2019/2020 season. The musical features a book by Kent Staines, Lyrics by Akiva Romer-Segal and music by Colleen Dauncey.
Theatre Calgary's Stafford Arima Announces 2019-20 Season of Compelling Stories Highlighting Calgary Artists
Continuing our commitment to utilizing Calgary's rich acting and creative talent, this season will see us go on a journey from farce to greed, from a 'humbug' to a prom, and from a prep-school to a meeting of legends. Our stage will be filled with shows that both resonate and delight, and will include a significant number of Calgary actors, designers, and play-wrights.
Photo Flash: MARY POPPINS Flies Into Young People's Theatre
Everyone's favourite nanny arrives just in time for the holiday season! One of the most successful and beloved Broadway musicals in the world, the YPT Production of Disney and Cameron Macintosh's Mary Poppins will be presented on the Mainstage fromNovember 5, 2018 to January 6, 2019.
Golijov's Haunting Song Cycle AYRE Receives Powerful New Interpretation By Soprano Miriam Khalil
Against The Grain Theatre, Toronto's visionary chamber opera company, is known for electric performances that act as 'a bracing wake-up call to the spirit' (The Globe and Mail). That daring candor is now being channeled via its new in-house recording label, which launches with a live recording ofOsvaldo Golijov's 'ecstatically beautiful...radical and disorienting' song cycle Ayre this December (The New Yorker).
Have A Jolly Holiday with MARY POPPINS at Young People's Theatre
Everyone's favourite nanny arrives just in time for the holiday season! One of the most successful and beloved Broadway musicals in the world, the YPT Production of Disney and Cameron Macintosh's Mary Poppins will be presented on the Mainstage fromNovember 5, 2018 to January 6, 2019.
Peak Performances Kicks Off Season with Afro-Cuban-Yiddish Opera
Peak Performances kicks off its 2018-19 season with the world premiere of Hatuey: Memory of Fire, a rousing Afro-Cuban-Yiddish opera performed in English, Yiddish and Spanish, with music by Frank London, libretto by Elise Thoron, direction by Mary Birnbaum, and choreography by Maija Garcia.
Spectacular Production Of WEST SIDE STORY Comes To Grand Bend
Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23
Spectacular Production Of WEST SIDE STORY Comes To Grand Bend
Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23
Spectacular Production Of WEST SIDE STORY Comes To Grand Bend
Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23
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