Steven Dubuc
Sound Designer
Steven Dubuc was still in college when he went to work as a system engineer for a Montreal sound company called Audio Concept in 1980. In 1982 he undertook his first cross-Canada rock’n’roll tour as a sound engineer with the Powder Blues Band, hitting 57 venues from coast to coast in 60 days.
With no formal training as a sound engineer, Steven went on to work for the Moscow Circus as Head of Touring Sound between1987 and 1989. In 1990 he was the Production Soundman for the Canadian national tour of Les Miserables. He returned to Montreal in 1992 to take up duties as Head of Sound at the Montreal Forum and got his first assignment from Cirque du Soleil in 1994, as Technical Director for Alegría. He later became Technical Director (production & touring) of the North American tour of Quidam.
His work took him away from Cirque in 1997 to become Project Manager (Audio) for Disneyfest Asia as well as World Cup soccer installations in France. That led, among other assignments, to the position of Project Manager for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games international broadcast center. He also managed the power systems for Celine Dion’s 1999 World Tour and worked for the F1 World Championship providing technical expertise and support for all European races.
Steven returned to Cirque du Soleil in late 2000 and then became Technical Director for Zumanity in 2002, moving on to KÀ, as Project Supervisor (Audio) in 2003. He left Las Vegas for Montreal in 2004 to become Technical Director for special projects. And then it was back to Vegas as Theatre Technical Director of LOVE in 2005.
“You can’t walk into a beautiful room and have it be silent,” says Steven. “It needs to be texturized. Sound design is one of the places where technology meets art. And with a Cirque du Soleil production like ZAIA, when you first walk into the lobby you’re already in the show, thanks to the visual stimuli and the sound environment, and then as the room blends into the show, so does the sound.”
Steven Dubuc was born in Beloeil, Quebec, in 1962.