Irene Pieper has designed costumes and makeup for Theatre, Television, Feature Films and Commercials. Her theatre designs include those for The Bastion Theatre, Shakespeare Plus, Ballet Celeste, Pacific Opera Victoria, The Nanaimo Festival and several American universities as well as the University of Victoria. The current production of As You Like It marks the fourth time Irene has designed costumes for As You Like It.

Over the past 24 years, Irene has taught Costume Design, Costume History and Design and Theatrical Makeup for UVic’s Theatre Department. She has also designed costumes for The Threepenny Opera, Rodgers and Hart, Joan of Arc, The Glass Menagerie, Man of La Mancha, Lovers: Winners and Losers, Canterbury Tales, Snoopy!!!, Molly, Happiest of the Three, Arms and the Man, The Mikado, Tartuffe, The Miser, Shakespeare ‘s Double Bill, Arabian Nights, Engaged, West Side Story, The Learned Ladies and As You Like It.

Irene travels worldwide in pursuit of her interest in photographing ethnic costume and as a result she is in the process of writing a book on costume design that will feature her research, sketches and photographs.

Anyone attending a Phoenix production over the past four years is certain to be familiar with the innovative and imaginative designs of Michael Meloche.
 

Coming to UVic from Thornhill, Ontario, Jennifer completed her BA at the University of Western Ontario, graduating with an honours degree in Political Science. She also studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts as a lighting design intern in their 1 993 Summer Season. Her Assistant Lighting Design credits include Don Giovanni for the Banff Centre, and Moon for the Misbegotten, Miss Julie and Democracy for the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. Jennifer designed her first professional show this past December in the Grand’s studio space.
Shows designed for UVic’s Phoenix Theatres include See Bob Run, The Juniper Tree, Vox, This Too is a Play, Private Lives and Happy End.

After completing the lighting design for As You Like It, (her Master of Fine Arts thesis production) Jennifer will be returning to Ontario for her second season as assistant lighting designer at the Stratford Festival. She will be working on The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, and The Country Wife. She is also the recipient of a 1994 Guthrie Award, from the Stratford Festival, in the form of a tuition scholarship. Jennifer is an apprentice member of Associated Designers of Canada.