4 Questions: Andy Cheng
Andy Cheng is a Toronto based dramaturg, actor, writer, and comedian. He was nominated for the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for the CBC...
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4 Questions: Shawna Dempsey
Shawna Dempsey is one of Canada’s best-known performance artists. She and collaborator Lorri Millan have created works such as We’re Talking Vulva, Lesbian National Parks and Services and Wild Ride...
4 Questions: Rachel Kennedy
Rachel Kennedy is the Professional Theatre & Education Manager at Theatre Ontario. Other recent accomplishments include producing and directing for House of Rebels Theatre, Deadman's Tale Podcast, Epigraph Collective, Filament...
Spotlight on Alumni: Francesco Antonio
Francesco Antonio (BFA Acting 2017) has been very busy since graduating from the Theatre Department! His work in film, television and music, including his short film “Addiction,” has led Francesco...
4 Questions: Julia Gray
Julia Gray is a postdoctoral fellow at Bloorview Research Institute which is embedded in Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Hospital (and fully affiliated with University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine). ...
Spotlight on Faculty: Shawn Kerwin
Shawn Kerwin joins us to share her experience of her 2017-18 sabbatical, which saw her designing two important works in Newfoundland with director and York alumna Jillian Keiley, and participating...
4 Questions: Owais Lightwala
Owais Lightwala is a theatre producer, and also characterizes himself as “as occasional theatre artist and web/graphic designer”. He is the Managing Director of Why Not Theatre, an independent theatre...
4 Questions: Richard Rose
For nearly 40 years, Richard Rose (BFA, Drama Studies 1978) has been a distinguished director in the Canadian theatre community, as well as having directed internationally. Currently, he is...
4 Questions: Byron Laviolette
Byron Laviolette is the resident director of U.N.I.T. Productions, home of the Morro and Jasp clown duo. With U.N.I.T., he has helped create and stage twelve original works that have...
4 Questions: Lynn Slotkin
Lynn Slotkin is a theatre writer and the founding editor of the widely read Slotkin Letter, an online source of critical writing about live performance. Her reviews and articles have...