Biography

Production Designer Aidan Leroux came to film and television production design with a B.A. in Philosophy and Literature and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Other degrees include: a Graduate Design Diploma from the Architectural Association in London, and a Masters of Science from Columbia University. He also came with a wide world-view having lived in London, New York, Tokyo, Milan and Paris.

His first feature length project, the Rhombus film Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen, won the 2003 Gemini Award for Best Production Design. He is the winner of the inaugural Canadian Screen Award - Best Production Design for TV (Bomb Girls, 2013) and shared the Directors' Guild of Canada Team Award for Booky and the Secret Santa (2007). From 2006-2012 Aidan has been nominated for 9 DGC awards in the Production Design and Team Achievement categories as well as a Gemini and a Genie for such projects as Edwin Boyd (2011), Murdoch Mysteries (2011 and 2010), Booky's Crush (2009) and The Robber Bride (2007).

Prior to entering the film and television industry, Aidan worked in Daniel Libeskind's Milan studio Architecture Intermundium in Milan on The Berlin City Edge installation for the Museum of Modern Art and The Line of Fire project in Geneva, Switzerland.

As an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Aidan taught a variety of studio, seminar and lecture courses. While teaching Aidan was also Co-ordinator for Culture Lab, a multidisciplinary symposium series featuring such guests as Atom Egoyan, Peter Lynch, Rem Koolhaus, and Bruce Mau. He was also curatorial assistant to Dean Larry Richards for E-12, an interdisciplinary design exhibition that toured Japan and Canada.
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