Set designer

French Canadian set designer Carl Fillion graduated from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 1991 with a diploma in set design.

He has worked with Robert Lepage on more than 15 productions, including The Seven Streams of the River Ota, Elsinore, and Geometry of Miracles, and the operas The Damnation of Faust, 1984, The Rake’s Progress, The Nightingale and Other Short fables, and the Ring Cycle at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He also designed the Cirque du Soleil show TOTEM.

Other theater and operatic credits include Simon Boccanegra at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and The Burial at Thebes at Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

From 1992 to 2002, Fillion trained new scenic artists at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec, and from 2000 to 2002 at Montreal’s National Theatre School.