The Department of Theatre was pleased to learn today that our former student, Dillon Orr, has been awarded the Pauline McGibbon Award, which recognizes the talent and potential for excellence of an early career Ontario theater artist.
2021 joint conference, Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic, will take place at our new digital home, Theatreagora.ca
The Department of Theatre wishes to extend its congratulations to the franco-ontarian playwright Claude Guilmain, shortlisted for the prestigious Governor General’s Award in Drama for his play AmericanDream.ca (Éditions L’Interligne, 2019). He studied in Ottawa until 1981 before returning to Toronto to help found the Théâtre la Tangente.
The Canadian Association of Theatre Research joins the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET) in its condemnation of the elimination of many programs at Laurentian University, including Theatre Arts.
This week, the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa learned with dismay and indignation of the elimination of many programs at Laurentian University, including the one in theatrical studies.
Students in "Theatre in Canada" (THE 3347, led by Part Time Professor Kristina Watt) collaborated on a project with the SpiderWebShow and the "Performance Wiki", a national compendium of Canadian Theatre Artists.
The work of Kristina Watt (of 100 Watt Productions) has been selected to be part of the "First International EcoPerformance Festival" in Brazil, March 16 - 19, 2021.
A Company of Fools, under the leadership of Artistic Director Nicholas Leno, is offering a theatrical audio experience like no other with "Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: An Interactive Audio Play in a Box"
Kariane Lachance, founding Artistic Director of the Franco-Ontarian theatre company Mauve Sapin, creates site-specific work inspired by her Northern roots and perspective.
Congratulations to our graduate Bronwyn Steinberg (MFA in Directing, 2010), on her appointment as the Artistic Director of the Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary.
Our congratulations to Sophie Ducharme (Honors BA in Theatre Studies, 2010) who has just been appointed to the position of head administrator for Ottawa’s Théâtre la Catapulte.
The University of Ottawa's Department of Theatre wishes to congratulate current undergraduate student Aisling Murphy for her dramaturgy internship at Life Jacket Theatre Company in New York City.
The University of Ottawa’s Department of Theatre wishes to congratulate graduate Stéphie Mazunya (2015). This actor and playwright was recently selected to be part of the collective 21 Black Futures as organized by Toronto’s prestigious Obsidian Theatre.
The Department of Theatre extends its congratulations to Mani Soleymanlou, the recently announced incoming Artistic Director at the National Arts Centre’s French Theatre.
The John Hirsch Prize recognizes new and developing theatre directors who have demonstrated great potential for future excellence and exciting artistic vision.
The Department of Theatre of the University of Ottawa expresses its solidarity with the victims of systemic racism here in Canada, and around the world.
Pancakes, a play by student Pascale Courville is one of the winning texts at the recent national competition "Les Zutopies solitaires" at the Théâtre français de Toronto.
The Research Excellence Award is given to people who have demonstrated remarkable research performance in one or several areas of research in the past five calendar years.
In addition to the support of Claire Duguay, Executive Director of L'Avant-première, the young playwright benefited from the advice of director Anne-Marie White and set designer John Doucet.
Guillaume Saidon was chosen as one of the actors as part of the D-Day 75th anniversary commemorative ceremony at Juno Beach. He delivered this performance in front of veterans and dignitaries such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his French counterpart, Édouard Philippe.
The Department of Theatre is in mourning. Our friend Benjamin Gaillard died yesterday in a road accident that also killed his 10 years old son. Benjamin and his family were travelling in the United States on their way back from vacation. His wife Véronique and his daughter survived the accident and are currently in a Pennsylvania hospital. We do not fear for their lives.
Theatre director Sarah Conn honoured with 2018 Pauline McGibbon Award. Sarah holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Ottawa
The 20-year-old from Ottawa has just won the Ontario Francophonie Award - Youth Award - for his involvement in the community and in many cultural industry activities.
Once Upon a Kingdom Theatre is invited to represent North America at the 15th World Festival of Children's Theatre in Germany in June 2018! U of O Theatre Department's MFA Graduate, Ekaterina Vetrov, brings to life a unique and distinctive immersive theatre piece, Lucid Dreams - a strange world of dreams full of symbols, illusions and grotesque imagery delivered through movement, contemporary dance, and work with masks and objects.
The Société Québécoise d’études théâtrales has awarded the 2017 scholarship to Caroline Gignac, for her thesis proposal entitled Favoriser de nouvelles perspectives d’analyse d’un spectacle de danse contemporaine : l’empathie esthétique in Mille batailles by Louise Lecavalier. Congratulations Caroline!
On November 22, the Chair of Arts Carmelle and Rémi-Marcoux of HEC Montréal, under the direction of François Colbert, presented the 2017 Cultural Manager's Award to Louise Allaire, former Director of Les Gros Becs Youth Theater, currently enrolled in the Theater Master's degree at the Faculty of Arts’ Theatre Department, University of Ottawa.
With A Bachelor's degree in theatre and a practical master in stage, Sariana Monette-Saillant works as manager and production manager for many theatre companies. During her studies, she founded le Théâtre de Dehors with her colleague Eric Perron and assumes the artistic co-direction.
The University will soon have a cutting-edge black box theatre. The new space will be used to create an acting conservatory program, the first of its kind in the city.
Created in 1989, the John Hirsh prize honours a director from Ontario every other year. Born in Sudbury, the director, actress and author Miriam Cusson has founded and directed numerous companies including Productions Roches Brûlées (2009-2014).
Ottawa-born actress, director and translator Danielle Le Saux-Farmer is a graduate of Department of Theatre and of the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec (acting).
Originaly from Hearst, Marie-Pierre has worked in the franco-ontarian theatre community since she graduated from the Theatre Department where she completed both a BA and an MA in Theatre Studies.
The Storefront Fringe Festival returned this summer to Kingston’s downtown and featured 17 productions, 10 days, three storefronts, and 102 performances in total before it wrapped up on Canada Day.
The Ann Saddlemyer Award honours a monograph published during the past year that exemplifies the strength of theatre scholarship in Canada. The winner of the award for 2016 is Spike Milligan’s Accordion: The Distortion of Time and Space in The Goon Show by Rick Cousins.
Vincent Leclerc and Anie Richer, graduates of the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, have been honoured with Gemini Awards by the Quebec section of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Vincent won the “Meilleur premier rôle masculin – série dramatique saisonnière” and Anie the “Meilleur premier rôle – Jeunesse”. Our sincere congratulations to both!
Laurie Fyffe has just been appointed as the new artistic director of Evolution Theatre, replacing Christopher Bedford who left the helm of the company in January 2016.
Nicole Nolette of the Department of Theatre of the Faculty of Arts and postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University has been awarded the Ann Saddlemyer Award for her book Jouer la traduction : théâtre et hétérolinguisme au Canada francophone (2015).
Students of the Department of Theatre’s Theatre in English Canada course are actively helping build a National Performance Research Project. As part of their studies, the students are contributing to the development a nation-wide project dedicated to creating the first community-maintained Canadian online compendium of the performing arts.
On Friday March 18th, Dr. Louise Frappier, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, will host a conversation between French director Joël Pommerat and dramaturge Daniel Loayza.
From February 6 to February 14, at Mois Multi Festival in Quebec city, professor Anne-Marie Ouellet present the immersive play Le son de l’ère est froid.
Under the guidance of Professor Kristina Watt, students in the ‘Theatre in Canada’ course are using Twitter as a means to engage the nation in a living conversation about theatre in Canada.
The Department of Theatre launches its first initiative in Continuing Education: “The Actor’s Work”, workshop given by Ottawa actor Peter James Haworth
The youth web-series 2 h 14 Un continental en cinq temps, produced and directed by Marie Claude Dicaire and Jean-François Dubé and starring student and actress Laurence Latreille, is nominated for two prizes at the 2015 Prix Gémeaux.
Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival (MNTF) takes place in Ottawa this June 2015, and students in this three-credit undergraduate course will explore its past, present, and future during one intense week.
The Department of Theatre of the University of Ottawa is very well represented in the most recent issue of Recherches théâtrales au Canada/Theatre Research in Canada which focusses on Québecois theatre.
From June 26 to June 29, Professor Yana Meerzon and MA candidate Catherine Ballachey participated in the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference in Boston.
The play Fucking Carl, directed by Kevin Orr, associate professor and artistic director at Theatre 4.669, has been awarded the prize for outstanding overall production at the 2014 Ottawa Fringe Festival.
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (MFA) candidate Ekaterina Shestakova receives Best student production award (Princess Ivona) at the 14th annual Capital Critics Circle awards. Congratulations!
Under the guidance of part-time professor Kristina Watt, students in the ‘Theatre in English Canada’ course are using Twitter as a means to engage the nation in a living conversation about theatre in Canada. In partnership with the National Arts Centre English Theatre’s ‘SpiderWeb Show’ (spiderwebshow.ca), students conduct investigative research in order to create dynamic and concise ‘tweets’.
