Emerging Artist (Selected by Itai Erdal)

Hina is a Japanese Canadian lighting designer based in Metro Vancouver. She majorly designs lighting for theatre and dance, but she has designed for music and corporate events in recent years. Her selected lighting design credits include As You Like It (Grand Theatre; original lighting by Gerald King), Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach HFS Studio), Yaga (Touchstone Theatre), The Musical SpongeBob (Capilano University), and Wabi Sabi (Kokoro Dance; original lighting by Gerald King) which she received 2022 Vancouver International Dance Festival Larisa Fayad Memorial Award. She has apprenticed and assisted several established lighting designers around Vancouver at the companies such as Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Arts Club, and Theatre Replacement. She holds BFA in theatre with specialized in lighting design and production and management from University of Victoria.