Étiquette : Japanese Canadian theatre artist

Perspectives émergentes : Mayumi Ide-Bergeron

Mayumi Ide-Bergeron and cast in Mizushobai (The Water Trade), with headshot. Costume design by Mayumi Ide-Bergeron. Photo by A J Korkidakis.

Lately, Mayumi Ide-Bergeron has been thinking a lot about Tinkerbell. She’s assisting props designer Karine Cusson on a new production of Peter Pan the Musical, and they’ve been assigned “La Fée Clochette,” as the iconic sprite is known in French. She tells me she has rewatched all the Tinkerbell made-for-TV movies – who knew there […]

Perspectives émergentes : Hina Nishioka

Actors perform in a neon-lit nightclub-inspired set during Measure for Measure at Bard on the Beach Studio Theatre (2024), featuring performers in eclectic costumes with a live DJ and surreal props. Photo by Tim Matheson.

Hina Nishioka is a long way from the Pacific Ocean. As an aspiring ballet dancer in Japan; a student the University of Victoria where she turned to theatre after a knee injury; as staff on a cruise ship, seeing moving stage lights for the first time; or, these days, living and working in Vancouver, Nishioka […]