KIMBERLY PURTELL

Lighting Designer, Academy Guest Instructor

Kimberly Purtell was born and raised in Thornhill, ON

FOR SOULPEPPER & CROW'S: The Master Plan (2024)

FOR SOULPEPPER: A Streetcar Named Desire, (selected): WILDWOMAN, Queen Goneril, Pipeline, A Streetcar Named Desire, Three Sisters, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia, The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, Mother's Daughter, Crash, Twelve Angry Men, Happy Place.

FOR CROW'S: The Master Plan (A Co-Pro with Theatre Aquarius), Rosmersholm, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Fifteen Dogs, Uncle Vanya, We Are Not Alone, The Wedding Party, A&R Angels, The Boy In The Moon, Someone Else, The Seagull.

OTHER THEATRE: Mirvish Productions, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Arena Stage, DC, National Arts Centre and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Philadelphia, Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Place des Arts, among others.

OTHER: Recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, a Montreal English Theatre Award, a Toronto Theatre Critics Award, an Ottawa Critics Circle Award and an Elizabeth Sterling Award. Kimberly is the Vice President of the Associated Designers of Canada and ADC659.