Theatre · 2026

Heist

My roleProjection Design

Projection design for the Arts Club Theatre Company’s B.C. premiere of Arun Lakra’s Heist, directed by Andrew Kushnir, on the Stanley BFL CANADA Stage in Vancouver.

Heist is built like a heist film, and the projections did a film’s work on stage: title cards and jumps in time, a dossier for each member of the crew, a grid laid over the floor and climbing the walls of Ryan Cormack’s set, and a gallery of glowing frames for the ruby job. Some of the projectors came from SFU’s Precursor Lab.

  • by Arun Lakra
  • Directed by Andrew Kushnir
  • 17 September – 18 October 2026
  • Arts Club Theatre Company
  • Stanley BFL CANADA Stage
  • Vancouver, Canada
Stir: review ↗
Heist: “Part I: The Ruby Job” projected above four coloured panels with performers inside them, a grid of light on the floor

Images

Heist: a projected grid frames the words “…so the target, Fortunato, is oblivious to the plot against him.”
Heist: “Six months earlier” projected over a bar with a hockey jersey on the wall, an actor on the gridded floor
Heist: a crew member’s dossier projected — “The Gilligan”, skills, risks and a portrait
Heist: a gallery of projected frames around a ruby on a pedestal, the crew moving across the gridded floor
Heist: an aerialist hangs among glowing projected frames, a red triangle in one of them, lasers across the room
Heist: the gallery’s frames turned red and green, an aerialist at the right, the ruby’s case on its pedestal
Heist: an aerialist hangs head-down through the gallery, its frames filled with yellow patterns
Heist: three shooting-range targets projected on the back wall, two actors on the purple grid
Heist: “The Plan” and a diamond projected over the stage, the cast in a line below
Heist: “The Sell” projected on the brick wall of the wine cellar, a woman in red at the top of the stairs
Heist: red and white shapes break across the brick wall and the stairs
Heist: a blue projected eye above the set, red light on the stairs

Press

“Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez’s projections creep across Ryan Cormack’s set, geometric grids climbing the walls and spilling onto the floor that blur what is the room and what is an image of the room.” — Angie Rico, Stir, 28 September 2026

Credits

  • PlaywrightArun Lakra
  • DirectorAndrew Kushnir
  • Fight DirectorJonathan Hawley Purvis
  • Intimacy DirectorLisa Goebel
  • Set DesignerRyan Cormack
  • Assistant Set DesignerMayara Nobre
  • Costume DesignerBarbara Clayden
  • Lighting DesignerSophie Tang
  • Composer & Sound DesignerMalcolm Dow
  • Projection DesignerWladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez
  • Associate Projection DesignersMarianne Benoit-Gagnon, Merve Yoruk, Jack Chipman
  • Assistant Projection DesignerGemma Crowe
  • The SpiderPatti Allan
  • MarvinCharlie Gallant
  • RyanTainui Kuru
  • AngieAlexandra Lainfiesta
  • KrugerAndrew McNee
  • FionaJennifer Tong
  • Dialect CoachAlison Matthews
  • Aerial & Rigging ConsultantPeter Boulanger
  • Production ResidentCamila Newton
  • Dialect Coach SupportAlana Hawley Purvis
  • Stage ManagerMichelle Harrison
  • Assistant Stage ManagerAngela Beaulieu
  • PhotographyCarlo Marchet

Process

Heist, projection drafting: two full-stage projectors seen from above, their beams crossing over the audience, with a front elevation and a side view
Heist, projection drafting: the scrim projector on the balcony rail, its beam drawn in green from above and from the side
Heist, projection drafting: a top-down projector covering the stage floor, drawn in orange from above, the front and the side
Heist, projection signal topology: six projectors, the stage video rack, the projection tech table and the cameras, with their connections