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PT faculty profiles

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DART Part Time Instructors 2008-09

 


Chrystine Anderson (1F99-carpentry)

 

Tanya Apostolidis (1F99-wardrobe)

 

Suzanne Burchell (3P05, 2P02)

Suzanne has been a part time lecturer in DART for the past eight years teaching second and third year courses. For the past 34 years she has taught English, history and drama in secondary school. Her career has included 23 years of work in political action and professional development for the Ontario Secondary School Federation. She has been writing  curriculum documents for Theatre Aquarius for ten years. In the summer of 2007 she wrote and directed her first play for public performance in Nova Scotia. 

 

Jill Carter (2P96)

. . . is an Anishinaabekwe born and based in Toronto. An avid theatre practioner, she has worked for almost two decades as a performer, director, dramaturg, and instructor. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, where she is completing her dissertation, “Repairing the Web: Spiderwoman’s Grandchildren Staging the New Human Being.” Jill also serves as a Sessional Instructor at the University of Toronto where she teaches Indigenous Theatre in North America, Composition (Transitional Year Program) and Effective Writing.

 

David Copelin (3P92)

. . . has worked extensively in the professional theatres of both Canada and the United States.  He has been a literary manager and dramaturg at the Mark Taper Forum, New Dramatists, Arena Stage, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as a producer, a critic, and an arts administrator.  A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, his plays and translations have been produced in venues ranging from the Yale Cabaret to the Shaw Festival.  From 1999 to 2003, David served as Artistic Director of ScriptLab, an independent script development organization in Toronto.  David’s play Bella Donna (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006) won the New Play Award from the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival, where it sold out all its performances and was a Patron’s Pick. 

 

Terrance Cox (1F93)

For thirty years, a publishing poet and writer of non-fiction, for more than thirty, a university and college teacher, in Canada and overseas, Terrance Cox is also published as a scholar and as an editor, produced as a playwright and recorded as a spoken word performer. His teaching includes courses in Canadian studies, drama, English, film, music and popular culture. He is a recipient of awards for scholarship and journalism, and of artistic grants and prizes for poetry and playwriting. The latest of his published collections is a second “spoken word with music” CD, Simultaneous Translation (2005). It joins in the canon his prize-winning book Radio & Other Miracles (Signature Editions, 2001) and an acclaimed earlier CD, Local Scores (Cyclops Press, 2000). 

 

Theatre Beyond Words (2F04)

Terry Judd, Robin Patterson, Harro Maskow

see http://www.theatrebeyondwords.com/

 

Kelly Daniels (2F50)

. . . is a professional actor, director, educator, producer and for five years now, the Artistic Director of St. Catharines professional theatre company Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects.  Her acting and directing credits are numerous and include work for Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Prairie Theatre Exchange, and most notably, The Shaw Festival Director’s Project. Over the span of a twenty year career in the theatre arts, Kelly has taught hundreds of children, youth, and adults from Alberta to Ontario in diverse locations and settings, within a vast array of programming and is now entering her eleventh year of teaching at the university level. Through her private coaching, Kelly has assisted several students’ acceptance into National Theatre School, George Brown, Studio 58, University of Alberta, and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival Academy.  This year she will be directing Michel Tremblay’s Albertine in Five Times and American Buffalo by David Mamet, for Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects.

see http://www.lyndesfarne.com/

 

Matthew Flawn (3Y43)

Matt has an extensive history as a theatre technician and lighting designer. He has designed for a number of theatre companies including Theatre Plus, The Shaw Festival, Solar Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Francais du Toronto. He as worked as Assistant Lighting Designer for several commercial touring productions for Live Entertainment. He is currently employed as the Festival Electrician at the Festival Theatre for the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Lighting Design.

 

Barry A. Freeman (2P97)

. . . is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto where he is completing a dissertation about collaborative intercultural theatre.  Presently the managing editor of Theatre Research in Canada, Barry is a research participant in Creative Spaces, a survey of new play development in Canada, as well as in Urban School Performances, an international study of "at-risk" students in urban schools using through the lens of the dramatic arts.  Barry's varied research interests include interculturalism, drama-in-education, folk music and culture, collective and devised dramaturgy, Native theatre, Newfoundland theatre and Czech theatre.  Barry recently returned from an exchange to Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where he studied Czech theatre and language.

 

Kathryn Kerr (3Y44)

. . . has taught Props at Brock and Ryerson University,  and has been a props builder for eighteen years,  principally for the Shaw Festival.  She has also worked as a props buyer,  scenic carpenter,  stage manager and stage hand in theatres from Halifax to Vancouver.    She holds a Diploma in  Advanced Theatre Arts (Production)  as well as a B.A. in History.  

 

Nadine Sivak (3F94)

A native of Montreal, Nadine is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where her doctoral thesis examined post-colonial identities in contemporary North American drama and film.  An excerpt from her chapter on filmmaker Midi Onodera will be included on an upcoming DVD of the filmmaker's collected works.  When she is not at Brock, she works as a Policy Officer for the Department of Canadian Heritage on an initiative to increase access to the arts for youth.

 

Barbara Worthy (4P92)

. . . is a freelance CBC radio producer, a writer, and actress. Originally from England she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary before coming east to join Christopher Newton’s acting ensemble at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake. Her 20-year association with the Shaw Festival has involved acting, writing, directing, producing, and education outreach.  Currently she is co-producing The Legacy Project – Legends and Myths of Canada’s First Nations for CBC Radio’s Ideas, which has taken her from the Arctic to the Atlantic, to Haida Gwaii. She is also working with the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and in the fall will be performing in Lyndesfarne Theatre’s production Albertine in Five Times.

 

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