Éric Champoux met Wajdi Mouawad at the National Theater School of Canada. He designed the lighting for almost all of his productions, including Incendies, Forêts, Seuls, Temps, Des Femmes, Des Héros, Sœurs, Le Dernier jour de sa vie, Tous des oiseaux, Mort prématurée d'un chanteur populaire dans la force de l'âge and Racine carré du verbe Être, followed by L'Enlèvement au sérail at the Opéra national de Lyon. With a background in Montreal theater, he was soon invited to work in the circus and opera worlds. He has collaborated with the Opéra de Montréal on Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking and Samson et Dalila, both directed by Alain Gauthier, Falstaff by David Gately, Aida by François Racine, Romeo and Juliet created by Tom Diamond, Written on Skin by George Benjamin and, most recently, La Reine-Garçon by Michel-Marc Bouchard.He also collaborates regularly with the collective Les 7 doigts de la main, notably on Le Murmure du Coquelicot, Cuisines &amp; Confessions, Passagers, The Princess of Circus, Prime Time, The Last Chapter, commissioned by the Sheikh of Sharja in the United Arab Emirates, and the musical tribute to the Cowboys Fringuants Pub Royal. For Cirque du Soleil, he created the lighting for the Big Top (2009) and Arena (2016) versions of OVO, as well as for Allavita! commissioned for the Milan World Expo (2015).He is also lending his lights to Cirque du Soleil's first two ice shows: Crystal (2017) and Axel (2019). Also for Cirque du Soleil, he created the lighting for Juste Une P'Tite Nuite (a tribute to the group Les Colocs) and Joyeux Calvaire (a tribute to the group Les Cowboys Fringants), The Cirque (a tribute to the group RBO) at the Amphithéâtre Cogeco in Trois-Rivières, Amora on the island of Malta, Vizion in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Festa in Andorra. A man of many facets, he is also a painter and photographer. In his work, the media intersect, overlap and merge.At the Opéra national de Paris: Œdipe, 2021

Éric ChampouxLighting designer