AMPD – York University – School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Our Alumni

Matt Johnson is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his independent feature films, including The Dirties (2013), which won Best Narrative Feature at the Slamdance Film Festival, and his thesis film Operation Avalanche (2016), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Matt Johnson Director / Producer
Film BFA 2006, MFA 2016

Jillian Keiley is an award-winning theatre director, winning the Siminovitch Prize for Directing in 2004 and the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize in 1997. She founded Artistic Fraud in 1995 and became the Artistic Director of National Arts Centre English Theatre in 2012. Some of her productions have included A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, and Tartuffe. She frequently directs for the Stratford Festival.

Jillian Keiley Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre
Theatre BFA 1994

Justine Comfort is a contemporary dancer and dance educator. She is a founding member of Half Second Echo is a Toronto based contemporary dance collective, she has danced freelance for various choreographers and instructs figure skaters in off-ice dance and conditioning.

Justine Comfort Contemporary Dancer and Educator
BFA 2013

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