LIZ SO 蘇進思
Masters Student @ University of the Arts London
Details and Tickets for Liz' current work; Rent at Hart House Theatre can be found here
Process
Works
About
image credits(left to right): Liz So(left), Jae Yang Photography(centre, right).
All images were taken by Liz unless specified.
ABOUT
Liz So 蘇進思 (she/her) is a graduate student at the University of the Arts London for Theatre and Performance Design. She completed her undergraduate degree in Drama at the University of Toronto in 2025 and worked on various plays and performances through her undergrad years.Liz is Canadian-Born-Chinese and was born and raised in Toronto to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. She has studied technical theatre since her high school days at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts(RHSA) where she developed a passion for theatre through stage management, directing, design and production. Liz has recently received an award of merit through the Hart House Drama Festival (2025) for Double Duty in Outstanding Set Design for her work on Five Minutes Between Lion and Man and Faith.
You can find Liz supporting her favourite sports teams in her spare time, as well as watching terribly cheesy Christmas rom-coms all year round.
ABOUT
Contact Liz:
email: [email protected]
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Alcestis
The Sound of a Voice
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man
sketches/other
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man - February 2025
painted and paper maché columns
original state of columns
columns pre-cut
The Sound of a Voice - Dec 2023
1/2" model
1/2" model
chicken wire work
hanging the branch
testing branch layout
testing placement of paper flowers and other set pieces
hanging the branch
Alcestis - Nov 2022
*speculative design for DRM254 at UofT
configuration #1 of 1/4" model
configuration #2 of 1/4" model
costume sketch
costume sketch
costume sketch
costume sketch
A Collection of Doodles and Sketches and Other Art
self portrait
couch sketch
vacation sketch
soundscape for an assignment
On Now
Theatre
Other Work
Livestreams, and Camera Work
Stage Management
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man (Hart House)
Victoria College Environmental Fashion Show 2025
Faith
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man (Dramafest)
Low Level Panic
Pool (No Water)
Living Boxes
The Sound Of A Voice
The Most Massive Woman Wins
Prague Quadrennial 2023
Don't Cry When The Constellations Beg To Burn
Weymouth
Institute For Imaginary Friends
Leave A Message After The Tone
Grim Tales For Lost Children
Rent - February 2026
Book, Music and Lyrics:Jonathan Larson
Director: Kit Dixon
Cast: Nomi Parsai, James Higgins, Anya Almirante, Evan Lee, Gaby Bondoc, Thato Sotashe, Malikhai Kolonko, Juan Parra, Sam Borenstein, Kiara Accurso, Genelynn Gray, Scott Oxholm, Mia Lobo, Brody Giroux, Olivia Phillips, Charis Li
Band: Jo O' Leary-Ponzo, Jake Lamb, Amy Lee, Nica Fleming, Michelle Gopaul
Stage Manager: Ella Naumoff
Assistant Stage Managers: Ciaran McCausland, Ceilidh Hutchings
Music Director: Jo O'Leary-Ponzo
Assistant Music Director: Amy Lee
Vocal Consultants:Jay-Daniel Baghbanan, Frank Yu
Choreographer: Maya Elder
Equity Director, Media & Marketing: Mohamed Alinur
Technical Director & Set Manager: Neehla Pal
Set Designer: Liz So
Set Assistants: Maya Gordon, Leila Emir, Makenna Brissette
Lighting Designer: Winton Daum
Lighting Operator: Zack Radford
Costume Designer: Val Vegara
Costumes Assistants: Anaia Corrigan, Will James, Tessa Naughton-Ron
Hair & Makeup Designer: Floryana Shanira
Sound Designer: Lincoln Macdonald
Props Master: Alison Wardley
Props Assistant: Nara Parsai
Head of Media & Marketing: Lauren DeLoyde
Media & Marketing: Tatiana Hill
Graphic Designer: Nghi Ngyuyen
Stage Crew: Yujin Oh
Photographers: Soda Wang, Kolya Gorbulia
Poster Artist: Isabelle Fox
Performed at: Hart House TheatreTickets for Rent can be found here.
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man - November 2025
(Remount at Hart House Theatre)
Playwright & Director: Avi Kleinman
Cast: Grace Elizabeth Huestis, Dalila Bejar-Ali
Stage Manager and Head of Props: Sabrina Mei Ling Pye
Apprentice Stage Manager and Movement Consultant/Choreographer: Ella Annis
Dramaturgy and Artistic Support: Maureen Gualtieri
Lighting Designer and Projection Designer: Niamh Moll
Sound Designer: Elise Corbin
Set Design: Liz So
Costume Design: Cassandra Davey
Intimacy Coordinator: Gregory Carruthers
Projections Consultant: Nicole Eun-Ju Bell
Performed at: Hart House Theatre
Photos by: Lilly LogueThe show was first performed in February 2025 as a part of Hart House Theatre's Drama Festival. See here for more details.Liz won the Double Duty Outstanding Set Design Award for Five Minutes Between Lion and Man at the 2025 Hart House Drama Festival.
Victoria College Environmental Fashion Show - February 2025
(VEFS Underground)
Performed at: Supermarket Bar & Variety (Toronto, Canada)
Set Designers: Kiki Craig, Leah Baggoo, Julia Collett, Jena W, Ranveer Joshua, Liz So
Lighting Designer: Liz SoFashion Designers and Models were part of the 2025 VEFS collective.
Faith - February 2025
(Hart House Drama Festival Entry)
Playwright & Director: Emily Beaubien
Cast: Angela Zhang
Stage Management & Lighting Design: Hannah Devlin-Foley
Assistant Stage Manager: Chloe Ali
Dramaturgy: Fiona Du
Lighting Operator: Aynsley Andersib
Sound Designer: Avi Kleinman
Composer: Zane Shihadeh
Sound Engineering: Alvin Cornista, Dmytro Kyryliv, Dulce Martinez, Pouria Zarei
Set Design: Liz So
Costume Design: Judy Wang
Performed at: Hart House Theatre
Produced by: St. Michael's College TroubadoursLiz won the Double Duty Outstanding Set Design Award for Faith at the 2025 Hart House Drama Festival.
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man - February 2025
(Hart House Drama Festival Entry)
Playwright & Director: Avi Kleinman
Cast: Grace Elizabeth Huestis, Ciarán McCausland
Stage Manager: Ella Annis
Assistant Stage Manager: Macarena Coronado Harman
Dramaturg & Vocal Coach: Tallulah Valliere-Paul
Lighting Designer/Operator: Niamh Moll
Sound Designer/Operator: Elise Corbin
Set Design: Liz So
Costume Design: Cassandra Aalbers-Davey
Props Master: Madeline Moser
Performed at: Hart House Theatre
Produced by: Victoria College Drama SocietyLiz won the Double Duty Outstanding Set Design Award for Five Minutes Between Lion and Man at the 2025 Hart House Drama Festival.The show was remounted in November 2025 with Hart House Theatre. See here for more details.
Low Level Panic - December 2024
Playwright: Clare McIntyre
Director: Gaby Chanen
Cast: Gaby Bondoc, Alicia Balduzzi, Rebecca Robitaille
Stage Manager: Unwoo Ho
Assistant Stage Manager: Lily Ahari
Lighting Design: Olivia Tsoi
Set Design: Liz So
Photographer: Angelina Huang
Performed at: The Cat's Eye
Produced by: Victoria College Drama Society
Pool (No Water) - November 2024
Playwright: Mark Ravenhill
Director: Rebecca Robitaille
Cast: Tessa Kramer, Madeleine Thompson, Farah Fatola, Artemis Cahill Riedmueller
Voiceover: Frosina Pejcinovska
Stage Manager & Sound Design: Sichun Xia
Assistant Stage Manager & Lighting Design: Jingyuan (Jessie) Chen
Set Design & Costume Design: Salma Wennekers
Projection Design: Liz So
Production Manager: Ariel Martin-Smith
Technical Director: Adrien Whan
Photographer: Jae Yang Photography
Performed at: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
Living Boxes Workshop - August 2024
Director: Eric Rose
Cast: Elise Tiggs, Ethan Verderber, Soroosh Kahnemuyipour, Maya Gale-Buncel
Production Designer: Snezana Pesic
Assistant Designer: Abby Esteireiro
Assistant to the Designer: Liz So
Photographer: Eric Rose, Snezana Pesic
Performed at: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
The Sound of a Voice - Dec 2023
Playwright: David Henry Hwang
Director: Xinxian Xu
Cast: Grace Li, Larry Ng
Stage Managers: Don Ku, Ariel Martin-Smith
Technical Director: Adrien Whan
Set Design: Liz So
Costume & Makeup Design: Val Vergara
Sound Design: Evan Moritz
Lighting Design: Abbey Kowalski
Photographer: Jae Yang Photography
Performed at: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
The Most Massive Woman Wins - Dec 2023
Playwright: Madeleine George
Director: Lisha Zhao
Cast: Fiona Du, Candice Ann Juttlah, Cassandra Marrazza-Radeschi, Madeleine Thompson
Stage Managers: Qilin Yu, Ariel Martin-Smith
Assistant Stage Manager: Sichun Xia
Technical Director: Adrien Whan
Set Design: Jingyuan Chen(Jessie)
Costume & Makeup Design: Liz So
Sound Design: Evan Moritz
Lighting Design: Madeleine King
Photographer: Jae Yang Photography
Performed at: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
Troubled Waters - June 2023
(Prague Quadrennial 2023 Canadian Student Exhibition)
Curators: Alex Gilbert, Carla Orosz, Raymond Marius Boucher
Advisory and Design Team:Tarique Lewis, Nicole Eunju Bell, Yulissa Campos, Anne Sophie Gaudet, and Katie Mooney
Special Contribution for the Iceberg: Georgia Newsam, Aura Carolina Rodriguez Vasquez, Lenka Novakova
Participating Schools: University of Victoria, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto, Concordia University, École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada, École Supérieure de Théâtre, Collège Lionel-Groulx, École de Théâtre du CÉGEP de St-Hyacinthe, Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec, Dalhousie University
Emerging Artists: Emily Conlon, Emily Daniels, Emily Dotson, Aaliyah Dustyhorn
Photographer: Jan Hromadko
don’t cry when constellations beg to burn - Mar 2023
Playwright: Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Director: Eva Barrie
Cast: Carol Chen, Maria Perry , Emma Janusky, Doga Melisa Demirer, Christina Gross, Abi Akinlade, Liam Peter Donovan
Set & Costume Designer: Snezana Pesic
Lighting Designer: Peter Freund
Sound Designer: Gloria Mok
Sound Design Mentor: Maddie Bautista
DRM403 TA and Assistant Director: Robert Motum
CDTPS Manager of Theatre Operations: Ariel Martin-Smith
CDTPS Technical Director: Adrien Whan
Assistant Set Designers: Liz So and Amitis Mashayekhi
Assistant Costume Designers: Selina Jia, Val Vergara, Vicky Zhang, Jessie Chen and Valeria Macgregor-Ordonez
Assistant Projection Designer: Shreshta Gupta
Weymouth - Jan 2021
Playwright: Kris Ozolins
Directors: Benjamin Battiston & Liz So
Cast: Matthew Thiess, Rebecca White, Riley Donovan-Whitelaw, Zoë Haase, Lemar Cave, Liz So
Silhouettes Created By: Cast and Directors
Sound Designers: Benjamin Battiston, Liz So, Anna Sutherns
Video Editor: Liz So
Poster By: Emily Hermesan audio play with a sillhouette video accompaniment as a part of RHSA's 2021 Cyber Fringe
The Institute For Imaginary Friends - Jan 2021
Created by: Students from the 2020-2021 RHSA Drama Pro Class
Website Team Leads/Production Managers: Stephen Wei & Liz So
Directors: Stephen Wei & Kelsey Tamsin
Cast, Crew, and Designers: Students from the 2020-2021 RHSA Drama Pro Classa take on theatre during COVID-19, a virtual site specific play that was hosted on a Wordpress website
Leave a Message After the Tone - June 2020
Directors: Kelvey Goldhar-Killick & Zoe Mitchell
Video Editor: Liz So
Cast: Students from the 2019-2020 RHSA Drama Pro Class
a virtual collective creation, part of RHSA's 2020 Cyber Fringe
Grim Tales for Lost Children - Jan 2020
Playwright: Carol Ann Duffy
Adapted for the stage: Melly Still
Directors: Stephen Wei & Kim Snider
Cast, Crew, and Designers: Students from the 2019-2020 RHSA Drama Pro Class
Assistant Stage Manager: Liz So
Photographer: Maddy Hertel
