Tanya Palmer (MFA Playwriting 2000) is the Director of New Play Development at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She talks with us about her journey to the Goodman, and her experience as a grad student at York.
Category Archives: Spotlight
Spotlight on Alumni: Jeff Giles
Actor Jeff Giles (BFA Acting 2006) talks about his experience as a performer in musical theatre—having starred in 7 productions of Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story all over Canada—and shares some intimate details about his struggles during his time at York.
Spotlight on Alumni: Natasha Ladouceur
Natasha Ladouceur (BFA 2008 Acting) hasn’t been acting since she graduated—she works as a Criminal Court Registrar at the Superior Court of Justice in downtown Toronto. But she says that her acting training gave her confidence and an ability to self-evaluate that has taken her far since her days in the studios of the Centre for Film and Theatre.
Spotlight on Alumni: Shaina Silver-Baird
Shaina Silver-Baird (BFA Acting 2011) has been busy in the past two years since graduating, performing in Festivals, for Shakespeare in Action, and in three bands, too! She shares with us her experiences so far, and what she most appreciates about the time she spent training at York.
Theatre Parallax takes “KATA” to Cardiff
A group of York Theatre alumni and students are taking KATA, the show they originally created for their third-year devised theatre class, to Wales for the World Stage Design Festival 2013. Elyssia Sasaki answers our questions about how they’re making this happen.
Spotlight on Faculty: Ines Buchli
Acting-Directing Professor Ines Buchli‘s production of Patricia Gruben’s new play The Secret Doctrine is being mounted from Tuesday to Saturday (July 2 to 6) at Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Theatre in Vancouver, BC. The play deals with an investigation into 19th-century occultist Helena Blavatsky, played by Vancouver actor Gabrielle Rose (pictured).
Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew Now Playing in High Park
MFA directors Ted Witzel and Ker Wells have been busy at the High Park amphitheatre staging their productions of Shakespeare’s classic plays, which are a Canadian Stage production in collaboration with the Department of Theatre in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Macbeth opened July 3, while The Taming of the Shrew opened July 16. Shakespeare in the Park runs to September 1, with shows nightly at 8 pm. This pay-what-you-can event is one of Toronto’s favourite traditions. Read more about Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park. See our Macbeth or Taming of the Shrew a Image Galleries
on Flickr.
Víctor Gómez’s play “Lizardboy” Featured in New Collection
The play Lizardboy by alumnus Víctor Gómez (MFA Acting 2011) will be featured in a new collection of plays from Playwrights Canada Press, Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays, edited by Natalie Alvarez. This is the first anthology to showcase the work of established and emerging Latina/o Canadian playwrights.
A New Name: The Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies.
We are pleased to announce that the Graduate Program in Theatre Studies at York is now the Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies.
The change in program and degree name to Theatre and Performance Studies represents the culmination of a multi-year review process that has included the revision of our program sub-fields of specialization, changes to degree requirements, the arrival of new faculty, and the expansion of the graduate program membership to include colleagues from numerous departments across the university. For more information, please visit our program website.
Playwriting Alumni Gather to Read Their Work
Playwrights from the 2011-2012 THEA 4290 Playwriting and Developmental Dramaturgy class have been having ongoing meetings to read their developing playwriting work. They continue to meet under the name “5290” on a regular basis.
