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. As Head of Design for Toronto’s leading immersive theatre company, Outside the March, Nick specializes in creating and facilitating thematic, impactful designs, and transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, dramatic environments.

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. Co-Founder of Blue Sky Initiative, a group of artists committed to creating public art that speaks to the human connection, community and allyship.

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Select credits include: Things I Know to Be True (Mirvish / Company Theatre), Rock of Ages (More Entertainment); Trojan Girls, Lessons in Temperament, Flick, Jerusalem, Terminus (Outside the March);  Into the Woods (YES Theatre); Antipodes, Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine); Sweeney Todd (TIFT); Vespers: an original ballet by James Kudelka (Royal Winnipeg Ballet); Human Animals, Dissidents (ARC); Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Bang Bang (Factory); Vespers(Royal Winnipeg Ballet); Don Giovanni, L’Elisir D’Amore (Opera Nuova); West Side Story (Citadel); Brantwood(Sheridan)