Jackie Chau

Bio

Jackie Chau (She/Her)

Jackie has worked as a set and costume designer on over 250 productions and her work has toured internationally.  In addition, she is a production designer and art director for film and television.  Selected theatre design credits include: Electric Messiah (Soundstreams), The Hours That Remain, Serving Elizabeth, The Gig (Theatre Aquarius), Almighty Voice and His Wife, HUFF (NEPA), Antigone Insurgency, Talking Masks, (One Little Goat), Gas Girls, The First Stone (New Harlem Productions), Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream (High Park/Can Stage), Zadie’s Shoes, Lady Sunrise, Wildfire, The Waltz (Factory Theatre), Brown Balls (Fu-Gen), Moment, Dissidents, Oil, Gloria, Martyr, Rockabye (ARC Theatre), Cowboy Versus Samurai, 39 Steps, Oraltorio (Soulpepper) and The Komagata Maru Incident (Stratford Festival), Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry Opera/Luminato), As I Must Live It (Theatre Passe Muraille), 4 minutes 12 seconds (Studio 180).  Jackie was named in NOW magazine’s Top 10 Theatre Artists of 2009, nominated for 3 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design, nominated for a Saskatoon Area Theatre (SAT) award, 2 Broadway World awards and has received 10 Dora nominations for outstanding set and costume design. She has taught Theatrical Design at the University of Toronto and is currently teaching Design for Performance at York University.