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. 

The recipient of multiple 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’s design work was featured in Professional Lighting Magazine for his innovation in off-the-grid lighting design and site-specific scenography. As Head of Design for Outside the March, Nick has been working to expand the reach and importance of design in storytelling and placemaking. 

Select Credits Include: Rainbow on Mars, Death of Walt Disney, R.A.V.E, Lessons in Temperament, Trojan Girls, Jerusalem, The Flick, Tape Escape, Dr. Silver, TomorrowLove, Mr. Burns, Terminus; (Outside the March); Table for Two, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Obsidian Theatre); Wildwoman (Soulpepper); Drawer Boy (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Erased (Open Heart Surgery/TPM); Fulfillment Centre, Job, Case for the Existence of God, Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine); Things I Know to be True (Mirvish/Company); Glass Menagerie (Grand); Vespers (Royal Winnipeg Ballet); Brantwood (Sheridan).