Echo Zhou

Echo is an award-winning, proud Chinese immigrant and Tkaronto-based scenographer. In her professional career, she has been mainly focused on IBPOC and queer storytelling and making live performances as accessible as possible. She has designed for many art organizations nationwide, including the Stratford Festival, Tapestry Opera, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in the Bad Times, Theatre Passe Muraille, Thousand Island Playhouse, and many live performance festivals. Her designs have been presented in Japan and China. Her favourite recent credits are Cymbeline (Stratford Festival), Shaniqua in Abstraction (Crow's Theatre), Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera), A Poem for Rabia (Tarragon Theatre), Dragon's Tale (Tapestry Opera), The Chinese Lady (Studio 180); Benevolence (Benevolence Collective); Between a Wok and a Hotpot (Cahoots Theatre); The Year of the Cello (Theatre Passe Muraille); HMS Pinafore (Vancouver Opera); Every Brilliant Thing (Thousand Island Playhouse); White Girls in Moccasins (Manidoons Collective); Mr. Shi and His Lover, and I Swallowed Moon Made of Iron (Music Picnic). Echo is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. For Grandpa, 獻給敬愛的嗲嗲。