Nick Blais - Designer

Nick Blais designs across Canada in all manner of discipline and venue: from theatres, parks, abandoned buildings, schools, storefronts, living rooms and concert halls. Nick specializes in creating and facilitating thematic, impactful designs, and transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, dramatic environments. As Head of Design for Toronto’s leading immersive theatre company, Outside the March, Nick has been working to expand the reach and importance of design in storytelling and placemaking. Co-Founder of Blue Sky Initiative, a group of artists committed to creating public art that speaks to the human connection, community and allyship.

Nick has received Dora Mavor Moore awards in Toronto for both set and lighting design, nominated for the Virginia Myrtle Cooper award in costume design, and various other awards and nominations across the country. Nick was showcased in Professional Lighting Magazine for his innovation in off-the-grid lighting design and site-specific scenography. 

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Select credits:  Death of Walt Disney, RAVE , Lessons in Temperament,  Jerusalem, Terminus (Outside the March); Table for Two, Wildwoman (Soulpepper); Erased (Open Heart Surgery/TPM); JOB, Case for the Existence of God, Effect, Marjorie Prime, Antipodes, (Coal Mine Theatre); Things I Know to be True (Mirvish/Company); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, Into the Woods (YES Theatre); Sweeney Todd (TIFT); Glass Menagerie (Grand); Vespers (Royal Winnipeg Ballet).