Sheree is an interdisciplinary artist/designer. Designing costumes and sets for performances, she creates sculptural fiber art and mixed media painting for exhibitions and installations. Many collaborators include the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC, The Museum of Modern Art NYC, The Queens Museum NYC, Theatre Gargantua, Chashama NYC, Cabaret Company, Milliners Guild, The Tanks -Tate Modern, Soho Rep NYC, Circle Rep NYC, The Roundabout Theatre NYC, English Pocket Opera UK, Westminster School UK, Satchi Gallery Online, Upper Canada College Toronto, Smile Theatre, Branksome Hall, TYT Theatre, MTSpace, The Repertory Company, Mixed Company Forum Theatre, Soho Rep, Punchdrunk UK, Bane Haunted House NYC, Terror House of Horror, The Limelight Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The New Music Performance Group, Lenox Mass, Driftwood Theatre, Ensemble Ouvert Quebec, Ogunquit Playhouse Maine, Naked Angels NY, WIRED Magazine UK. Member of the Dramatists Guild. One of a Kind Show, The Interior Design Show (IDS), The Artist Project, Superfine Art Fair, LIC Culture Lab Art Shows, Chashama Gala/RAMA. Milliner.
Set and Costume Design, Selected Credits include….
Production Designer, “As You Like “It by William Shakespeare, Directed by Jeremy Smith, Driftwood Theatre, Touring Outdoor Summer Theatre
Set and Costume Design, “The Last 15 Seconds” Dir. by Majdi BouMatar, MT Space, Aga Kahn Museum Toronto, Toured Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Germany
Set and Costume Design, “My Dinner With Casey Donovan” by Sky Gilbert, Cabaret Company TMP Backspace
Set and Costume Design ”Made In Canada”, Smile Theatre,Costume Design “Avaricious”, Directed by Jacquie Thomas Theatre Gargantua
Costume Design “Hackerlove” by Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times Set and Costume Design “Art Meets Havoc", Smile Theatre, Touring
Set and Costume Design “Fear Desire and the Whole Damn Thing” by Hope Thompson, HH Productions, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Costume Design, The Sacrifice Zone by Suzie Miller, Theatre Gargantua, Factory Theatre
Colaborator/Maker, The Drowned Man-A Hollywood Fable, Punchdrunk, Temple Studios, Paddington Postal Station, London UK
Costume Design, A Few Brittle Leaves by Sky Gilbert, Cabaret Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Costume Designer, Exhibition, Installation Art by Simone Jones, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
Cultural Olympiad London 2012 Olympics, Cornucopia Theatre Company
Collaborator - Cultural Olympiad, Exhibition, Joy of Life/Kiss the Canvas by Ei Arakawa at the Tanks - Tate Modern, Performance Art
Set and Costume Design, “Revengers Tragedy’ by Middleton, Westminster School, Westminster Abbey, London UK
Costume Design “Imprints”, Directed by Jacquie Thomas, Theatre Gargantua, Factory Theatre
Set and Costume Design ”25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” Toronto Youth Theatre, Lower Ossignton Theatre
Costume Design, “The Situationists” by Sky Gilbert, Cabaret Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Set and Costume Design, Alice (A Steampunk Version), Carsons Productions, Hugh Foster Hall
Set Design, “Get Away” by Greg MacArthur, Dir. by Dai Dorian, Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington London UK
Set Design, “West Side Story” Westminster School, Westminster Abbey, London UK
Set and Costume Design :Crack” by Sky Gilbert, Essential Theatre Collective, Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre
Costume Design, “I Have Aids” by Sky Gilbert, Cabaret Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Set and Costume Design “The Three Loonie Opera”Mixed Company Tour/Cobblestone, Touring
Set and Costume Design “She Walks The Line” by Hope Thompson, Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Set Design, “Seascape” by Edward Albee, Poor Alex Theatre, Toronto
Set Design, “Tyrone X” by N. Markovitch, Westbeth Theater Center , NYC
Set Design, “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, Inner Stage Theatre, Touring Ontario
Set and Costume Design “The Adventures of Jillian Jiggs”, Solar Stage Theatre, Village Playhouse
Set and Costume Design, “Bad Acting Teachers” by Sky Gilbert, Buddies In Badtimes Theatre Company
Set and Costume Design, “Wolves & Sheep”, Escapade Theatre Company, The Pleasance Theatre, London
Short Film, Trailing Arbutus, by Hope Thompson, Better-Built Pictures, filmed on location.
Production Design, Feature film “The Missionary Position” by Robin Sharp
Sheree works as a designer in theatre, opera, film, circus and dance; and as a creative director/set and costume designer for photo shoots.
Film and Television Costumer
TV Series “See” Season 2
TV Series “Alias Grace” Dir Mary Harron AG Film Productions
Film "It" by Stephen King Dir by Andrés Muschietti Third Act Productions
Film “Wish Upon”
Film “Single Ladies”
TV Series “Beauty and The Beast” Season 3,
TV Series “Reign” Season 2
TV Series “12 Monkeys”
TV Series “Hemlock Grove”
TV Series “Designated Survivor” Season 1,
TV Series “Suits” Silver Tree “Suits” Season 6
TV Series “The Strain” Dir by Guillermo del Toro “The Strain” Series 3
Film/TV “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again” Dir by Kenny Ortega
Film/TV “Shadowhunters” Season 2
Quotes and Reviews
*"A Few Brittle Leaves" by Sky Gilbert
"The applause might have been taken as a compliment for costume designer Sheree Tams, since the Pie sisters are played by men. Even so, they look straight out of an old Britcom, or one of Barbara Pym's social comedies."
TORONTOIST
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Imprints, Theatre Gargantua
"Sheree Tams's costumes are a fantastical mix of playful and threateningly nebulous forms"
BATEMAN REVIEWS
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Last 15 Seconds, MT Space, Tour of Canada and Middle East
"A pulsating, unforgetable piece of theatre...the beauty and truthfulness of its images will linger many years"
Robert Crew, THE TORONTO STAR
"An exciting and evovocative night of theatre, blending imagery, movement and drama in a powerful way"
Atom Egoyan, DIRECTOR/FILMAKER
"Sheree Tams has created both set and costumes that serve the story with breathtaking simplicity and efficiency" TORONTO SUN
"Sheree Tams' set design--rows of white washing hanging against the upstage scrim evokes the domestic lives of women worldwide. The Last 15 Seconds reminds us of the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters left behind as men make war."
VANCOUVER COURIER
Most inspired design choice (for 2012): the hanging laundry in The Last 15 Seconds (at the Canoe Festival), a domestic backdrop for the exploration of the mind of a suicide bomber which becomes a kind of sculptural wall in the course of the show, from Kitchener's MT Space.
EDMONTON JOURNAL
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"My Dinner With Casey Donovan" by Sky Gilbert
"decked out in Sheree Tams’s snug period costumes, the stage is set for a farce about repressed sexuality that could shed light on today’s red state-vs.-blue climate: Guess Who’s Coming Out At Dinner?"
NOW Magazine
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"Get Away" by Greg MacArthur, Directed by David Dorrian
"The Set is interestingly just trees in a wood which carries an unreal terror" BLANCHE MARVIN
"It looks as it the set has been inspired by The Blair Witch Project, all mist, fallen leaves and jagged tree stumps. Amid over-luminous leaves" TIME OUT
”Sheree Tams' setting fills the Old Red Lion's tiny stage, creating an environment both crowded and sinister.” GATE REVIEW
"Presented allegorically, it is set in something that looks a little like a petrified forest, intriguing signs are pinned here and there, a Monopoly set lies incongruously on top of one of the tree stumps - well designed by Sheree Tams" THE STAGE
"Sheree Tams' story-book scary wood set design captures vividly the tension between the exterior and interior landscapes of the play" THE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
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"Will the Real JT LeRoy Please Stand Up?' by Sky Gilbert
"In a gloriously gaudy dress by costumer Sheree Tams, the brilliant Hennessy creates her own Tatum-ness with colossal comic results.
NOW MAGAZINE
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Dancing Queen by Sky Gilbert
"A Busby Berkeley extravaganza - except everyone has balls and there are no gowns or heels, just men in boaters and summery clothing beautifully designed by Sheree Tams." Bateman Reviews
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Revengers Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
“The incredible costumes had more than a few members of the audience jealous to try them on, with the flamboyant regalia sported by Tom Parker-Brooks standing out in particular. Contemporary attire really brought the play to life, creating a Jacobean world in the centre of modern London. All the while the subtle manipulations of the set continually seemed to expand and enhance the stage-space, with stair-ways and alcoves appearing seemingly out of nowhere. “
Sive Curran, THE ELIZABETHAN
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Additional skills:
Playwriting, Millinery, Model making, tech drawing, sewing, carpentry, Graphics, puppet making, photography, painting.
Freelance writer
Outpost Magazine, Inside Travel, National Post Newspaper Canada, NOW Magazine, London Theatre Blog and Special Glasses Magazine,
Editor of The Voice of the Annex Community Newsletter Toronto
Playwriting
Studied Playwriting at The Barrow Group NYC, City Lit London UK, Workshop with Canadian Playwright Judith Thompson and working with Sky Gilbert.
Play readings at First Fridays at the Barrow Group NYC and Naked Angels “Tuesdays at 9”, Theatre 80, NYC
“Beggars Medicine” by Sheree Tams performed at The Kenneth Moore Theatre, Iford London. UK
“Dropping Stitches” written and performed at the Queens Museum, Queens NYC.
Shtorytime Short Story Contest runner up “The Crimson Rambler”.
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Nominated for A Dora Mavor Moore Award in Costume Design for “A Few Brittle Leaves” by Sky Gilbert
Representing Canada, Prague PQ International Exhibitions of Countries and Regions, “Shared (Private) Space” Clam-Galas Palace, Curated by Patrick DuWors Prague CZ, June 2015