Nathan Bruce is a theatre Video and Lighting Designer as well as New Media Artist creating interactive installations/exhibitions. Recent theatre credits include Copperbelt (Associate Lighting Designer, Soulpepper), Rogers V. Rogers (Video Design, Crows Theatre), Tapestry Briefs (Lighting Designer, Tapestry Opera), Feed-Back (Co-Projection Designer, The Benway), Octet (Video Design, Crows Theatre); Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Video Design, The Royal Alexandra Theatre); Reina (Lighting Design, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre); Die Zauberflöte (Projection Design, Koerner Hall); 18 Jews Order Chinese Food (Lighting Design, Persephone Theatre, SK); WIGHTS (Video Design, Crows Theatre). Recent installation/exhibition credits include Try To Forget (Artist, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Long Winter); After The Flood (Co-Artist, Charles Street Video); Love Across Distance (Co-Artist, The ArQuives, Nuit Blanche 2024).

Nathan’s New Media artistry focuses on interactive design via experimentation with new software technologies and interactive tools and methods. Bruce’s work explores how using the human body and behavior informs design, how design influences the body, and how these two aspects of his work can be used to create visceral experiences with interactive technologies and theatrical methods. Nathan’s background in theatre reinforces his drive to make active audience engagement a key pillar of his work, pushing the importance of presence and awareness in the many forms of storytelling.