Personal Website and Portfolio Toasterlab Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Ian Garrett is designer, producer, educator, and researcher in the field of sustainability in arts and culture. Ian is Associate Professor of Ecological Design for Performance at York University and Graduate Program Director for Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. He is Producer […]
Professor Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is an anthropologist, performance theorist, and theatre director. Her research interests include experimental, imaginative, and performance ethnography; ethnographic storytelling; research-creation; autoethnography and memoir; ethnofiction; embodiment, emotions, and affect; grief and mourning; political/activist performance; disability anthropology; political anthropology; environmental anthropology; futures anthropology; gender and ethnicity; migration; aging; socialism/postsocialism; and human rights. She is […]
Professor McKernan teaches stage technology, exploring both leading-edge and traditional methodologies. As a scenic carpenter he has manifested over 300 designs for performance. These include theatrical productions, TV, Film and multi-camera live to air events. Over his 30 year career he has worked for many performing arts companies which include: McWood Studios, Bratton Scenery, Harold […]
Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies. She teaches courses on contemporary theatre and performance art, devised theatre, and practice-based research. Her research focuses on site-specific, immersive, and urban intervention performance; performing gender and sexuality; activist and political performance; performance, human rights, and environmental justice; intermedial and digital performance; research-creation methodologies; and […]
Originally from Nicaragua, Professor Guevara has harbored a lifelong interest in the intersections of theatre, performance and politics. During the Nicaraguan Sandinista government he participated in a cultural brigade, received training at the National Theatre School and was a member of Alan Bolt’s Nyxtayoleros Theatre. He has collaborated in a number of inter-cultural theatre organizations […]
Professor Batdorf is listed in the Who’s Who of American Teachers, received the York Faculty of Fine Arts Dean’s Senior Teaching Award for 2009/10 and in 1996 was voted Most Outstanding Faculty at The Boston Conservatory where she taught for 12 years. Batdorf has also taught at Brandeis University, Emerson College and the University of […]
Eric Armstrong works as an accent/dialect coach for theatre, film, television and gaming. He is the Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance & Performance and teaches voice, speech, dialects/accents, and text in the BFA acting program. Eric is a Full Professor and received the 2022 Senior Teaching Award from the School of Arts, Media, Performance and […]