TERESA PRZYBYLSKI

Master Engineer/Architect (Technical University of Krakow) MFA in Scenography (Fine Arts Academy, Krakow)
Associate Professor, Production
Department of Theatre, York University

teresap@yorku.ca

Theatre designer and architect Teresa Przybylski joined the faculty in York University's Theatre Department in 2000, bringing a wealth of professional experience gained in Canada and Europe.

Well-known as a designer for opera, theatre, dance and film, her extensive Canadian credits include productions at the Stratford Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Young People's Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, National Arts Centre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Francais de Toronto, Theatre Columbus, Native Earth, Necessary Angel, VideoCabaret and others.

Recent projects include set and costume design for the Canadian Opera Company productions of Il Tabarro and Cavalleria Rusticana; art direction/design for Rhombus Media's Don Giovanni Unmasked, which earned her a Gemini Award; set design for The House of Bernarda Alba at the Shaw Festival; and set and costume design for The Birds in the Stratford Festival. Last season, she designed the costumes for Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto) and the Shaw Festival's production of the Brecht/Weill musical Happy End.

Projects this season include sets and costumes for the Pleiades Theatre production of Hosanna at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (October 2006); set and costume design for Scorched at Tarragon Theatre (Feb-March 2007); and costumes for Lucy at CanStage (March-April 2007).

Professor Przybylski is the recipient of five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, most recently for set design for Two Words for Snow at Toronto's Artword Theatre, 2003.