Sophie Tang is an award-winning lighting and set designer working in Theatre, Opera and Dance. She holds a masters degree in theatre design from University of British Columbia.
She has worked with companies including Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Push Festival, Canadian Stage, Vancouver Opera, City Opera, Artsclub Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Theatre Replacement, Prairie Exchange Theatre, Belfry Theatre and so on. |
Sophie Yufei TANG
AWARDS
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award
Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Budget Division
Sophie Tang - We the Same- Ruby Slipper Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination
Outstanding Set Design – Large Theatre
Sophie Tang - Kuroko - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination
Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Theatre
Sophie Tang - Chicken Girl - Rice and Beans Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination
Outstanding Lighting Design – Large Theatre
Sophie Tang - The Orchard (After Chekov) - Arts Club Theatre
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award
Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Theatre
Sophie Tang - The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius - Rumble Theatre
Ovation Award Nomination
Outstanding Lighting Design
Sophie Tang, Herringbone – Patrick Street Productions
Steven B. Jung Theatre Artist Award
Sophie Tang- Inaugural Recipient
Larisa Fayad Memorial Award in Lighting Design
2020 recipient
SELECTED CREDITS
Lighting Design
"Henry V", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, Canada, 2023 (upcoming)
"unexpecting", ZeeZee Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2023 (upcoming)
"Apple Cart", Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada, 2023 (upcoming)
"Legend of Georgia Mcbride", Artsclub Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"Undeveloped sound", Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"Kitchen", Studio 58, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"Throe", Corporeal Imago, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
"East Van Panto- Little Mermaid", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
"Anne of Green Gables the Musical" Gateway Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
"Choir Boy", Canadian Stage x Artsclub Theatre, Toronto/ Vancouver, Canada, 2022
"The Pearl Fishers", Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
" Romeo and Juliet", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
" Harlem Duet", Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
"S'effondrent Les Videoclubs", Theatre La Seizieme, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
" 9 to 5", Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Canada, 2022
"Do You Mind if I Sit Here", Theatre Replacement x PUSH Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
" A Broadway Holiday", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver Canada, 2021
" East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland", Cultch x Theatre Replacement, Vancouver Canada, 2021
"We the Same", Ruby Slipper Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
"The Rez Sisters", Stratford Festival, Stratford, Canada, 2021
"At the Statue of Venus", City Opera, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
"Limb(e)s", Company Ci, Vancouver Canada, 2021
"Talking Shakespeare", Belfry Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
"Being Here: The Refugee Project", Belfry Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
"TomorrowLove", (Lighting and Projection Design), Studio 58, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
"East Van Panto: Panto come home", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver Canada, 2020
"La Voix Humaine", City Opera, Vancouver, Canada, 2020
“12 Dates of Christmas”, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2020
"Sound of the Beast", Rumble Theatre/ Theatre Passe Muraille, Vancouver, Canada, 2020
"Straight White Men", ITSAZOO Productions, Vancouver, Canada, 2020
"Peter Pan" ,Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Sis Ne' Bi-Yïz: Mother Bear Speaks", Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver Canada, 2019
"Utszan", Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver Canada, 2019
"Herring Bone", Patrick Street Productions,Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Try to Remember", Michale J fox Theatre, One Drama produced, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Jesse-- An ASL Opera", re:Naissance Opera, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Chicken Girl", Rice and Beans Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Blank", Rumble Theatre, Vancouver Canada, 2019
"Little Volcano", Theatre Replacement, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Dead People's Things", Zee Zee Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
“The Orchard”, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Old Man and the Sea", Turning Point Ensemble, Canada, 2019
"Elephant and Piggie's: We Are In A Play", Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
“Contemporary Nomadas”, Dance choreographed by Henry Daniel, Migration vs. Multiculturalism Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
“Cain and Abel” (Part 2), The Biting School, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
"The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius" - Rumble Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
"Noodle of Love", Michale J fox Theatre, One Drama produced, Vancouver, Canada, Sep, 2017
"Still the Kettle Sings", Pacific Theatre, Plan z produced, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2017
"Cain and Abel--Maids", The Biting School, Vancouver, Canada, Mar, 2017
"Caged Beast", The Cultch, One Drama produced, vancouver, Canada, Dec, 2016
"Smash", Trinity Western University, vancouver, canada, Nov, 2016
"Better Angels: A Parable", Tremors, Rumble Theatre production, vancouver, canada. August, 2016
Vancouver CSSA singing contest, Oct, 2015
Set Design
"My Little Tomato", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"Kitchen", Studio 58, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
"Bad Parent", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre x Prairie Theatre Exchange x Soulpepper Theatre, 2022
" A Broadway Holiday", Gateway Theatre, Vancouver Canada, 2021
"The Rez Sisters", Stratford Festival, Stratford, Canada, 2021
"Kuroko", Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"SRO", Urban Ink Productions ,Vancouver, Canada, 2019
"Herring Bone", Patrick Street Production,Vancouver, Canada, 2019
“Yoga Play”, Gateway Theatre, Vancouver Canada, 2019
"Comedy of Error" - Trinity Western University, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
"Last Train In", Rice and Beans Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2017
"Urinetown", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2017
"Uncomfortable under my skin", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2017
"Charlotte's web", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2017
"Complete works of William Shakespeare Abridged", Arts Umbrella Pre Professional Theatre, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2017
"The Pink Line", The Frank Theatre production, Queer Arts Festival, vancouver, canada. 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