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Sophie Tang is an award-winning lighting and set designer working in Theatre, Opera and Dance. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Simon Fraser University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in theatre design from University of British Columbia.
She has worked with companies including Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, National Arts Center, Push Festival, Canadian Stage, Vancouver Opera, Banff Centre, Pacific Opera Victoria, Artsclub Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Soulpepper Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Belfry Theatre and so on. |
Sophie Yufei TANG
AWARDS
The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award Nomination
Three Musketeers - Citadel Theatre and Artsclub Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Budget Division
We the Same - Ruby Slipper Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination – Outstanding Set Design – Large Theatre
Kuroko - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination – Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Theatre
Chicken Girl - Rice and Beans Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination – Outstanding Lighting Design – Large Theatre
The Orchard (After Chekov) - Arts Club Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Theatre
The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius - Rumble Theatre
Ovation Award Nomination – Outstanding Set Design
Cinderella – Gateway Theatre
Ovation Award Nomination – Outstanding Lighting Design
Oliver! - Gateway Theatre
Ovation Award Nomination – Outstanding Lighting Design
Herringbone – Patrick Street Productions
Steven B. Jung Theatre Artist Award
Inaugural Recipient
Larisa Fayad Memorial Award in Lighting Design
2020 recipient
SELECTED CREDITS
Lighting Design
"Handmaid's Tale", Banff Center for Arts, Banff, Alberta, 2025 (upcoming)
"Much Ado about Nothing", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 (upcoming)
“Pride and Prejudice”, The Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 2025
“Pride and Prejudice”, Western Canada Theatre, Kamloops, British Columbia, 2025
“Little Prince”, Pacific Opera Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 2025
"Oliver! the Musical", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2024
"East Van Panto: Robinhood", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2024
"The Lehman Trilogy", Theatre Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. 2024
“Jersey Boys”, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2024
"Salesman in China", Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, 2024
"Twelfth Night", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2024
"Three Musketeers", Citadel Theatre x Artsclub Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, 2024
"Sunrise Betties", ITSAZOO Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2024
"Choir Boy", Canadian Stage x Artsclub Theatre, Toronto/ Vancouver, Ontario, 2024
"East Van Panto- Beauty and the Beast", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Cinderella", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Fairview", Search Party Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Michel(le)", Theatre La Seizieme, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Henry V", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"unexpecting", ZeeZee Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Apple Cart", Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, 2023
"Legend of Georgia Mcbride", Artsclub Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Undeveloped sound", Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Kitchen", Studio 58, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Throe", Corporeal Imago, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
"East Van Panto- Little Mermaid", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
"Anne of Green Gables the Musical" Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
"The Pearl Fishers", Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
" Romeo and Juliet", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
" Harlem Duet", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
"S'effondrent Les Videoclubs", Theatre La Seizieme, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
" 9 to 5", Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, 2022
"Do You Mind if I Sit Here", Theatre Replacement x PUSH Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2022
" A Broadway Holiday", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia, 2021
" East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland", Cultch x Theatre Replacement, Vancouver British Columbia, 2021
"We the Same", Ruby Slipper Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021
"The Rez Sisters", Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, 2021
"At the Statue of Venus", City Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021
"Limb(e)s", Company Ci, Vancouver British Columbia, 2021
"Talking Shakespeare", Belfry Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021
"Being Here: The Refugee Project", Belfry Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021
"TomorrowLove", (Lighting and Projection Design), Studio 58, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021
"East Van Panto: Panto come home", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver British Columbia, 2020
"La Voix Humaine", City Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2020
“12 Dates of Christmas”, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2020
"Sound of the Beast", Rumble Theatre/ Theatre Passe Muraille, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2020
"Straight White Men", ITSAZOO Productions, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2020
"Peter Pan" ,Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Sis Ne' Bi-Yïz: Mother Bear Speaks", Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver British Columbia, 2019
"Utszan", Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver British Columbia, 2019
"Herring Bone", Patrick Street Productions,Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Try to Remember", Michale J fox Theatre, One Drama produced, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Jesse-- An ASL Opera", re:Naissance Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Chicken Girl", Rice and Beans Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Blank", Rumble Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia, 2019
"Little Volcano", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Dead People's Things", Zee Zee Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
“The Orchard”, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Old Man and the Sea", Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Elephant and Piggie's: We Are In A Play", Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
“Contemporary Nomadas”, Dance choreographed by Henry Daniel, Migration vs. Multiculturalism Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018
“Cain and Abel” (Part 2), The Biting School, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018
"The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius" - Rumble Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018
"Noodle of Love", Michale J fox Theatre, One Drama produced, Vancouver, British Columbia, Sep, 2017
"Still the Kettle Sings", Pacific Theatre, Plan z produced, Vancouver, British Columbia, July, 2017
"Cain and Abel--Maids", The Biting School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Mar, 2017
"Caged Beast", The Cultch, One Drama produced, vancouver, British Columbia, Dec, 2016
"Smash", Trinity Western University, vancouver, British Columbia, Nov, 2016
"Better Angels: A Parable", Tremors, Rumble Theatre production, vancouver, British Columbia. August, 2016
Vancouver CSSA singing contest, Oct, 2015
Set Design
“Pride and Prejudice”, Western Canada Theatre, Kamloops, British Columbia, 2025
“500 words”, Greenthumb Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025
"Cinderella", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"My Little Tomato", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Kitchen", Studio 58, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023
"Bad Parent", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre x Prairie Theatre Exchange x Soulpepper Theatre, 2022
" A Broadway Holiday", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia, 2021
"The Rez Sisters", Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, 2021
"Kuroko", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"SRO", Urban Ink Productions ,Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
"Herring Bone", Patrick Street Production,Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019
“Yoga Play”, Gateway Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia, 2019
"Comedy of Error" - Trinity Western University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018
"Last Train In", Rice and Beans Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2017
"Urinetown", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2017
"Uncomfortable under my skin", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2017
"Charlotte's web", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2017
"Complete works of William Shakespeare Abridged", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2017
"The Pink Line", The Frank Theatre production, Queer Arts Festival, vancouver, British Columbia. Jun, 2016
"Cannibal: the musical", Awkward stage production, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Sep, 2014
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Theatre production and design
Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Master of Fine Arts
Theatre Design
University of British Columbia, Canada