Episode 8 – Sean Nieuwenhuis – Projection Design

Sean Nieuwenhuis is a projection and media designer whose work encompasses a wide variety of stage, screen, and special event projects. With a formal background in broadcast production and years of experience in staging and design, Sean’s work adapts ever evolving presentation technology and tools to help tell stories. HIs designs for theatre and opera have been part of productions across Canada and around the world.

Theatrical credits include SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Dr. Zhivago and Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, JCS, Wanderlust, Evita and Cabaret at the Stratford Festival, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, JCS, SUMMER and Sideways at the La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Plumbers’ one man show A Word or Two for the Ahmanson Theatre and The Stratford Festival, Rear Window at the Hartford Stage, The Mountaintop, Little Prince and Mary and Max for Theatre Calgary and Anne of Green Gables for the Charlottetown Festival.

Past opera credits include the digital stagings of Madama Butterfly and the world premier of Whiteley for Opera Australia, Gounoød’s Faust for the Metropolitan Opera, Macbeth at the L.A. Opera, The Manchurian Candidate for Minnesota Opera, Vancouver Opera’s production of Nixon In China which has also been presented by the San Francisco Opera, Kanas City, W.O.O. Dublin, and the Royal Swedish Opera. Sean also designed the projections for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star and The Handmaid’s Tale.

In the world of large scale events, Sean was privileged to be the visuals director for the 2017 Invictus Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Opening and Closing ceremonies. Outside of the theatre, his production studio, Sensory Overload Productions Inc., provides visual design support and production services for projects around the globe.