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’.
