Biography

Jackie Chau has designed over 200 productions and her work as a set and costume designer has toured across Canada and internationally.  She has worked on many new and diverse Canadian plays and has done production design and art direction for film and television. The most recent short film she designed, One Small Visit – a true story of an immigrant Indian family who unexpectedly passes through the tiny Midwest hometown of Neil Armstrong in the wake of the '69 moon landing – was screened at the Smithsonian, NASA and the Cannes Film Festival.  Some of the theatre companies with which she has collaborated include Theatre Aquarius, Native Earth Performing Arts, One Little Goat, New Harlem Productions, Capitol Theatre (Port Hope), Can Stage, Factory Theatre, Fu-Gen, Prairie Theatre Exchange, GCTC, Buddies in Bad Times, Second City Chicago/Toronto, CBC Kids/Expect Theatre, ARC Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Soulpepper, Stratford Festival, Tapestry Opera, Soundstreams and Luminato.