Alain Lortie

Alain Lortie has pursued his chosen career with passion for over thirty years. First associated with multidisciplinary artists Michel Lemieux, Marie Chouinard, and Édouard Lock, he went on to collaborate with Québécois and European singers Jean-Pierre Ferland, Diane Dufresne, Robert Charlebois, Daniel Bélanger, Peter Gabriel, Francis Cabrel, and Eros Ramazzotti. Named Lighting Designer of the Year several times at the ADISQ Awards, he also received the Masque for Best Lighting for Les âmes mortes (1996) and the Dora Mavor Moore Prize in Toronto for Œdipus Rex (1997). From 2001 to 2005, Alain was artistic director of the Celebration of Light at the Montreal High Lights Festival. He designed the lighting for several musicals in Asia, as well as two permanent circus productions for Shanghai Circus World: Era (2005) and Kaleido (2010). Among Alain’s major achievements are Starmania (1993), NotreDame de Paris (1998), Arturo Brachetti (1999), Cavalia (2003), and Odysseo (2011). His work with the Cirque de Soleil includes Soleil de minuit (2004), Delirium (2006), Zarkana (2011), and Toruk, the first flight! (2015), which was inspired by the James Cameron film, Avatar. In addition, Alain collaborated with Franco Dragone in the Han Show in Wuhan, China, in 2014.