Michelle Ramsay
Consultant, Creator, Crew, Lighting Designer, Lighting Technician, Mentor, Set Designer, Stage Manager, Venue Technician
Awards & Nominations
2014 Dora Award Winner ~ Independent – Outstanding Lighting Design (Sister Mary’s a Dyke?!)
2014 Dora Award Nominee ~ Independent – Outstanding Lighting Design (The Wanderers)
2013 Dora Award Nominee – Outstanding Lighting Design (The Lesson)
Assistant Lighting Designer
| Scratch (2008) | Assistant Lighting Designer |
| Chimera (2007) | Assistant Lighting Designer |
| Bloom (2006) | Assistant Lighting Designer |
Associate Lighting Designer
| The Silicone Diaries (2010) | Associate Lighting Designer |
Co-Creator
| Daughter (2016) | Co-Creator |
Consultant
| And What Alice Found There (2007) | Technical Assistance |
Crew
| The Gay Heritage Project (2013) | Crew |
| Jesus Chrysler (2011) | Load-In Crew |
| The Silicone Diaries (2010) | Crew |
| Roshni (2010) | Crew |
| Neon Nightz (2009) | Crew |
| Goodness (2009) | Crew |
| Mourning Dove (2009) | Crew |
| [boxhead] (2008) | Crew |
| I Think I Can (2007) | Crew |
Electrician
| Humble Boy (2006) | Electrics Crew |
Festival Lighting Designer
| POZ (2024) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Curious Contagious (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Little Fires (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The Pirate Queen of the Stars (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Cam Baby (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The Art of Being Alone (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Folk Lordz: Warriors & Fools (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Orson Welles / Shylock (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| La Cucina (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| War Tapes (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Damn Tank (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Bite-Sized (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Tarot Live! (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Getting Odd (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Oh, Sarah! (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| That Joyce Girl (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| King of the Castle (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Knots (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| A Minor Mid-Career Retrospective (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Doomed (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The Harvester (2016) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Georama (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The 10/10/10 Project (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Folk Lordz (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Cootie Catcher (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Graham Clark Reads the Phone Book (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The Untitled Sam Mullins Project (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Mixed Chick (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Carrie’s Little Lambs (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Everyday Oppressions (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Waiting in Line (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Porn & Pinochet (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Rukmini's Gold (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| All Our Yesterdays (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Interrogation: Lives and Trials of the Kamloops Kid (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| You and That Fucking Gorilla (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Me With You (2015) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Maracatu You! (2014) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Thus Spoke... (2014) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| The Good Story (2014) | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Antigonick (2014) | Festival Lighting Designer |
House Technician
| Pyaasa (2009) | House Technician |
Lighting Crew
| Wide Awake Hearts (2010) | Lighting Crew |
| The Year of Magical Thinking (2010) | Lighting Crew |
| A Beautiful View (2009) | Lighting Crew |
| Another Home Invasion (2009) | Lighting Crew |
Lighting Designer
| El Terremoto (2024) | Lighting Designer |
| Give It Up (2024) | Lighting Designer |
| The Smell of Horses (2024) | Lighting Designer |
| The Tempest (2024) | Lighting Designer |
| The Guide to Being Fabulous (2023) | Lighting Designer |
| The Waltz (2023) | Lighting Designer |
| Redbone Coonhound (2023) | Lighting Designer |
| Martyr (2023) | Lighting Designer |
| The Waltz (2022) | Lighting Designer |
| The First Stone (2022) | Lighting Designer |
| among men (2022) | Lighting Designer |
| Lady Sunrise (2020) | Lighting Designer |
| Don Giovanni (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| Broken Tailbone (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| The Jungle (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| Through the Bamboo (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| Lilies; Or, The Revival of a Romantic Drama (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| Dinner with the Duchess (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| Grace (2019) | Lighting Designer |
| The Royale (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| Gertrude and Alice (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| The Preposterous Predicament of Polly Peel (Act 1) (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| The Last Party (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| The Drawer Boy (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| Ipperwash (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| Rumspringa Break! (2018) | Lighting Designer |
| trace (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| Daughter (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| The Marriage of Figaro (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| Huff (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| Lukumi (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| Medea (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| Our Town (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| The Magic Hour (2017) | Lighting Designer |
| acquiesce (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Daughter (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Little Fires (2016) | Original Lighting Design ("The Animals are Planning Intervention") |
| Body Politic (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Lucio Silla (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| No Strings (Attached) (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Gertrude and Alice (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| Mockingbird (2016) | Lighting Designer |
| The Road to Paradise (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| Huff (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| Durango (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| Orpheus & Eurydice (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| The Unplugging (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| Cannibal! The Musical (2015) | Lighting Designer |
| The Stronger Variations (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Arcadia (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| 30 People Watching (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| The Art of Building a Bunker (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Maracatu You! (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| As the Foo Turns (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Sultans of the Street (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| The Wanderers (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Forgiveness (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Stencilboy and Other Portraits (2014) | Lighting Designer |
| Dinner at Seven-Thirty (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Night of the Living Dead Live (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Salome’s Clothes (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| The Art of Building a Bunker or Paddling the Canoe of my Self down the River of Inclusivity and into the Ass of the World (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Sister Mary's a Dyke?! (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Night of the Living Dead Live (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Ching Chong Chinaman (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Café Daughter (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Memorial (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| Salt Baby (2013) | Lighting Designer |
| The Lesson (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| The Hours That Remain (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| Obaaberima (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| France, or The Niqab (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| Sia (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| Out the Window (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| Red Snow (2012) | Lighting Designer |
| word!sound!powah! (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| blood.claat (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| benu (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| The Tale of a Town: Queen West (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Peter and the Wolf (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Still Life (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| The Atomic Weight of Happiness (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Night (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Paper SERIES (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (2011) | Lighting Designer |
| Wonderland (2010) | Lighting Designer |
| 9 Parts of Desire (2010) | Lighting Designer |
| Giiwedin (2010) | Lighting Designer |
| Birnam Wood (2010) | Lighting Designer |
| My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Gas Girls (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Salt Baby (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh (Up Until the Part Where Enkidu Dies) (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Job's Wife (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Lake Nora Arms (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Apricots (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| Lady in the Red Dress (2009) | Lighting Designer |
| A Very Polite Genocide or the Girl Who Fell to Earth (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| Banana Boys (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| In Darfur (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| Rough House (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| Death of a Chief (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| Nearly Lear (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| Wild Mouth (2008) | Lighting Designer |
| The Only Good Indian... (2007) | Lighting Designer |
| Twilight Cafe (2007) | Lighting Designer |
| Whale Music (2007) | Lighting Designer |
| The Stronger Variations (2006) | Lighting Designer |
| Annie Mae's Movement (2006) | Lighting Designer |
| Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine (2006) | Lighting Designer |
Mentor
| Sleeping, Tucked in the lonely Purple (2022) | Mentor to Samira Banihashemi |
Set Designer
| trace (2017) | Set Designer |
Stage Manager
| Salt Baby (2013) | Stage Manager |
Venue Technician
| Georama (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Folk Lordz (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Cootie Catcher (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Graham Clark Reads the Phone Book (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Mixed Chick (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Carrie’s Little Lambs (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Porn & Pinochet (2015) | Venue Technician |
| All Our Yesterdays (2015) | Venue Technician |
| You and That Fucking Gorilla (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Me With You (2015) | Venue Technician |
| Pitch Blond (2011) | Venue Technician |
