Description: Lyne Paquette Set Designer
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Lyne is a founder of Talisman Theatre and has served as its Artistic and Executive Director since 2008. A graduate of the National Theatre School (2005), she began as an Assistant Designer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and served as an intern at Michael Curry Designs. Lyne has since designed for many theatre, dance, puppet, and opera productions in Montreal. She has designed sets and costumes for Talisman productions since 2005. Set design is Lyne's second career: after graduating from McGill (1987
"Nature itself is the revenger and it's coming for environment-murdering humanity in the shape of ravenous, scientifically-modified beasts and the suffocating foliage of a Quebec forest, all played out in Lyne Paquette's otherworldly design of grassy wasteland and 'vomit-inducing' floral wallpaper." --Jim Burke Montreal Gazette October 9th 2015.
"The beautifully minimalist set of Billy (Days of Howling) hints at a nursery. There are white blocks for furniture, a hanging-mirror ceiling and hundreds of stuffed toys which get shovelled back and forth between scenes." --Pat Donnelly, Montreal Gazette 10.09.2014