Professor Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is an anthropologist, performance theorist and theatre director. Her research interests include experimental, imaginative and performance ethnography; ethnographic storytelling; political/activist performance; political anthropology; environmental anthropology; gender and ethnicity; international relations; violence and terrorism; migration; ageing; socialism/postsocialism; and the Roma people. She is a co-founder of York University’s Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE), …
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Paula Thomson
Paula Thomson has choreographed for a variety of dance companies as well as some of Canada’s premier theatre companies, including the Stratford Festival and the Canadian Stage Company. She has served as artistic director and choreographer for Northern Lights Dance Theatre. She has also been guest teacher/choreographer at numerous professional training institutions, notably the Banff …
Anthony Stephenson
Anthony Stephenson is a member of Actors’ Equity and ACTRA, and a founding member of the Guild of Canadian Musical Theatre Writers. In addition to many articles on theatre, he has also written several well-received mystery novels under the name of Anthony Quogan.
Ron Singer
Professor Singer is a professional actor who has appeared in many feature films, television series and commercials. He has also worked extensively as a director and producer for theatre, film and television. As a director, Professor Singer has over 30 professional theatre productions to his credit. He has served as director of Actors Workshops at …
David Rotenberg
David Rotenberg has founded two theatre companies and directed extensively throughout Canada and the United States. His directing credits include two Broadway shows — The News and 1940’s Radio Hours — and half a dozen Canadian premieres. As visiting artist at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1994, he directed the first Canadian play ever to be produced in translation …
Jeff Henry
Robert Fothergill
Professor Fothergill is a playwright, critic and theatre historian. His drama, Detaining Mr. Trotsky, about the internment of Leon Trotsky in a prison camp in Nova Scotia in April 1917(Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, 1987), won a Chalmers Award and several Dora nominations. Public Lies (Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, 1993), also nominated for a Chalmers Award, addresses issues …
Jill Courtney
Jill Courtney began her professional career as a classical dancer with companies in Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. and in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She then made the transition to movement, mime and non-verbal communications in theatre as a teacher and coach for actors. A graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s …
Douglas Buck
Professor Buck has worked extensively in arts administration and development in both the public and private sectors. He served as development coordinator for the Shaw Festival and managed several performing arts facilities and theatre companies. At York, he was for many years manager of the University’s Performing Arts Series. He also managed a professional wind …
Keith Bradley
Professor Bradley taught extensively in the areas of theatre production and stage management at York.
