Keira has worked for over 25 years as an actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and producer. She is currently on faculty at York University, teaching acting, devised theatre, playwriting, and performance creation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As the inaugural Associate Producer for the Forum and the Laboratory at the Stratford Festival, she spearheaded organizational […]
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a Dora-award winner performer and theatre creator based in Toronto. She is a founding member of the theatre collective The Howland Company, a recent assistant artistic director at Tarragon Theatre and a recent resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre. She has performed across the continent on stage and screen, and in recent […]
Jackie Chau has designed over 200 productions and her work as a set and costume designer has toured across Canada and internationally. She has worked on many new and diverse Canadian plays and has done production design and art direction for film and television. The most recent short film she designed, One Small Visit – […]
Danielle A.D. Howard joins AMPD as an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre. She recently taught within the University of California-Los Angeles' School of Theater, Film and Television before coming to York University. Howard holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from UCLA and writes at the intersections of race, gender, performance, visual and sonic culture. […]
Dr Rebecca Caines is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, whose research crosses between creative technologies (including sound art, new media, and augmentation), and socially engaged art, with a special focus on improvisatory practices. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia; and completed two postdoctoral research […]
Jamie (he/him) has been a Toronto based professional artist since 1997 as an actor, director, producer, teacher and writer. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level Acting and Directing in The Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance, and is a founding member of AMPDs Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee. His research continues to explore […]
Dr. Marlis Schweitzer is a theatre and performance historian who works at the intersection of material culture, visual culture, business history, and feminist historiography, with an emphasis on Anglo-American performance cultures from the eighteenth-century to the present. She is an award-winning author and co-editor of six books (three monographs, three edited collections); past editor of […]
Gavin McDonald has been a lighting designer and production manager for theatre, dance, music, exhibitions, events and opera for over 25 years, working with companies across Canada, including Canadian Stage, the Stratford Festival, the Canadian Opera Company, Citadel Theatre, Young People's Theatre, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre, Ross Petty Productions, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Countermeasure, the Ontario […]
Aaron Kelly (Theatre BFA ‘01, MFA ‘19) has worked professionally in theatre production and design for 25 years, designing shows across North America, the South Pacific, and France. In addition to his design work, which primarily focused on dance, theatre, and event lighting, but has included set, projection and sound design, he has also worked […]
Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng [pronounced Bay-JUNG, “j” as in jump; rhymes with “sung”] is Dean and Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design. Her research and writing focuses on the intersections between theatre and media including histories of film, social media, and technology in performance. She is […]