Welcome to Equity in Theatre

Kerwin, Shawn

Biography: 

Shawn had designed sets and costumes across Canada, in the US and in England.

Recent design work includes; The Buddy Holly Story (Grand Theatre, London) Speed the Plow (Belfry Theatre) The Living (Summerworks) The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Artistic Fraud of NFLD), Dead Metaphor (Mirvish Productions,Theatre Aquarius) How Do I Love Thee (Canadian Rep), Sea Sick (Theatre Centre) A Tender Thing (Soulpepper) and A Soldier’s Tale (Signal Theatre).

Other Set & Costume Designs include: Great Expectations, Our Town, (Soulpepper), Heaven, The Tempest, Habitat (Canadian Stage), Having Hope At Home, A Killing Snow, Salt Water Moon, Leaving Home, Harvest, Drawer Boy, Ginko Tree, World Without Shadows, Spirit of the Narrows, Another Season's Harvest (Blyth Festival), Brothel #9, And So It Goes, Suburban Motel, Better Living, Escape From Happiness, Beyond Mozambique, Home Is My Road (Factory Theatre), La Cenerentola, Barber of Seville, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore (Pacific Opera), Winters’ Tale, Ned and Jack, Stargazing, Glass Menagerie, Not I, Footfalls, Come and Go, From and Abandoned Work, Stratford Festival.

Shawn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, York University. She has been nominated for multiple Dora awards and been the recipient of two. She has also been nominated for the SIminovitch Prize in Theatre, the recipient of a Guthrie Award form the Stratford Festival, Non-theatre design work includes over 250 window installations for Tiffany & Co., design and development of the app Alone/Together in conjunction with the Canadian Film Centre’s Telus Interactive Art and Entertainment Program, including participation in Scotia Bank NuitBlanche, Bata Show Museum, 2011.

Professional Role(s): 
Designer