"...your lighting was brilliant, both in the scenes and transitions, as well as the way it brought Tiko's set to life. Bravo!"

-Peter Anderson // Playwright, Actor, Director as well as patron of Marion Bridge, West Vancouver

Michael K. Hewitt

Lighting Designer of the Associated Designers of Canada

Michael is a full member of the Associated Designers of Canada, and an award-winning professional Lighting Designer since 2007. Regional select credits include but are not limited to: The Kite (Rosebud Theatre), The Cake (Pacific Theatre), Act of Faith (Realwheels), A Christmas Story The Musical (Align Entertainment), Marion Bridge (A Wing & A Prayer), Butcher (Prime Cuts Collective), Heritage, Antigone, Concord Floral (Douglas College), Merrily We Roll Along (United Players), Coming Up For Air (Kay Meek), Kamwatan Nipe (Artsclub Reading), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Laramie Project, Uncommon Women, Hair, The Wiz, Spring Awakening, Rocky Horror Show, Carrie: The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar (FCP), The IT Girl (Dramanatrix), Sense and Sensibility, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret, A Christmas Carol, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Exit 22). Award-winning designs include: Kayak, Unity 1918, and The Cemetery Club (BST), The Outsiders (HSP). For a full list of Upcoming Productions please scroll down.

"Michael is amazing. He delivered an incredible lighting design for our concert that was both theatrical and rock n' roll - which is exactly what we wanted ... He saved our asses. Michael's my new lighting hero."

-John Murphy // China Repair, Vancouver

Upcoming Productions:

 

Show Company Venue Director When
The Birds and the Bees
 Arts Club Theatre Company
 Granville Island Stage
 L. Taylor
 Oct. 2019
Macbeth Douglas College
 Studio Theatre
 J. Renn
 Nov. 2019
A Christmas Carol
 Pacific Theatre
 Pacific Theatre
 M. Ertman
 Nov. 2019
7 Stories Capilano University Blue Shore Centre S. Zaradic Feb. 2020
Annie Vancouver Talmud Torah Norman Rothstein Theatre K. Smith Mar. 2020
Glorious! Rosebud Theatre Rosebud Opera House TBD
 Apr. 2020
Dogfight Attic Light Arts The Cultch Historic Theatre K. Torok May 2020

 

"Michael understood the complex story we were trying to tell and contributed such a deep, beautiful texture to the way we told it."

-Kathleen Duborg // Director of Concord Floral at Douglas College, New Westminster

PREVIOUS DESIGNS

"...his use of colour in The Outsiders was simply tasty"

-John Cooper // Adjudicator of the Theatre BC's NSZ Festival at Presentation House Theatre, North Vancouver