| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1922 | | TITLE: | Phillip Silver fonds | | CREATOR: | Silver, Phillip | | DATE RANGE: | 1966-1977 | | EXTENT: | 32 drawings | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Phillip Silver is an award-winning set, lighting and costume designer. Born in 1943 in Alberta, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Alberta in 1964 and subsequently attended the National Theatre School of Canada. His early design work in Edmonton, Alberta was for Theatre for Children and the Edmonton Musical Theatre Company. Phillip spent two seasons with Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, primarily working as a stage manager. He returned to Edmonton in 1966 to work on a production of Faust for the Edmonton Opera Associaton. From 1967 until 1978, Phillip was resident designer for the Citadel Theatre, and was a consultant for design of the Shocter and Rice theatres in 1976. Phillip has done designs for a number of other theatre companies across Canada including the Stratford Festival, the Canadian Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, and Theatre Plus. He worked across Canada from 1978 until 1986 when he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University where he taught stage design in the Department of Theatre. On July 1, 1998, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. Phillip Silver occasionally returns to the Citadel Theatre to design for their productions, including the 2001 production of Wit where he was the set and lighting designer. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of sketch for the design work of Phillip Silver and includes, for the Edmonton Opera Association, set designs for Faust, The Barber of Seville, Lucia di Lammermoor, and La Bohème, and for Citadel, costume designs for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Othello, Counsellor Extraordinary, Pygmalion, Antigone, Othello and Elizabeth 2 and set designs for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Owl and the Pussycat, Irma La Douce, Private Lives, The Right Honourable Gentleman, Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Siedman and Son, The Secretary Bird, Much Ado About Nothing, Master Builder, The Price, The Importance of Being Ernest, Counsellor Extraordinary, An Enemy of the People, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Absurd Person Singular. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Other records of Phillip Silver can be located in the Theatre Collection of the Toronto Public Library (Yorkville branch). | | RELATED RECORDS: | Also see the Citadel Theatre fonds. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from “Lighting Reflections: Phillip Silver Interviewed by Allan Watts” in Canadian Theatre Review (Issue 107, Summer 2001), York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts website, http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/faculty/profs/silver/silver.htm, accessed September 27, 2006 and from the records. |
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