Theatre News

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) named AMPD community members over 20 nominees for their outstanding work in professional theatre at the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards nomination ceremony.

For nearly 150 years, the Governor General's Academic Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. This year, Ph.D. graduate Signy Lynch won the esteemed prize with her dissertation, "Intercultural relations: direct audience address in contemporary theatre in Canada."

2021 Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) Rising Star award recipient, Emma Ferreira (BFA), is joining the cast of Rob Lowe's "Unstable: alongside Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), Sian Clifford (Fleabag) and John Owen Lowe (Holiday in the Wild).

Acclaimed dramaturge and AMPD Theatre alum Mel Hague (BA '09, MFA '11) is the new Artistic Director of Factory Theatre for Factory’s upcoming 2022-2023 season. Hague will take over for Prof. Nina Lee Aquino, who is currently teaching playwriting and new play dramaturgy at AMPD and preparing to helm the NAC English Theatre as Artistic Director. 

Is sustainable design done differently down under? A York professor’s Ecological Design students had a chance to find out this year, thanks to a globally networked learning (GNL) collaboration with two Australian universities.

Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng dissects the Unofficial Bridgerton Musical' as a TikTok Grammy-winning sensation and asks the question "Is the future of musical theatre online"?

Theatre professor Nina Lee Aquino tapped by the National Arts Centre to be the artistic director of the NAC English Theatre.

2021 had its challenges. As we enter 2022, let's reflect on just some of the many moments that made 2021 a special one at AMPD.