Rachel Forbes
Stratford: Set designer of Death and the King’s Horseman. Elsewhere: Set and Costume – Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); Home for the Holidays (Grand Theatre); Serving Elizabeth (TIP/WCT); Victory, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt (Shaw Festival); A Million Billion Pieces, Risky Phil (YPT). Set – Calpurnia (RMTC); Trouble in Mind (Shaw Festival); In The Abyss (Political Movement); School Girls (Obsidian Theatre). Costume – The Doctor’s Dilemma (Shaw Festival); White Girls in Moccasins (Manidoons/Buddies in Bad Times); Toka (LemonTree/TPM); A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper Theatre); Fences (Grand Theatre). Film/hybrid: 1851 Spirit & Voice (Myseum/Soulpepper); New Monuments (Canadian Stage/Luminato), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre/CBC); The Mountaintop (RMTC); A Revolution of Love (New Awakenings); Body So Fluorescent (Madonnanera/Inside Out). Awards: Dora Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The Brothers Size; Merritt Award for Outstanding Set Design for The Bridge. Online: rachelforbesdesign.com.
