Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng Praises AMPD Community on RED FM
On Thursday December 10 our dean, Sarah Bay-Cheng, appeared as a guest on 88.9 RED FM to discuss the challenges facing art schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
York Theatre Playwriting & New Play Dramaturgy releases The Red/White Plays Chapbook
The York University Theatre Department's 3rd and 4th year Playwrighting & New Play Dramaturgy classes capture last year's Red/White Plays release The Red/White Plays Chapbook.
UPDATE: Winter Planning in AMPD
I hope this message finds you healthy and safe as we all continue to endure the challenges of COVID-19. If you’re reading this, you’ve already achieved more than many thought possible.
Theatre@York 2020/21 Season
We have a dynamic Theatre@York season planned.
Stories of Northern Ontario & “The Ashley Plays”
The Ashley Plays are a series of short, original site-specific monodramas written and performed by the playwrights in THEA Playwriting & New Play Dramaturgy 4290. In collaboration with class dramaturgs and Course Director Judith Rudakoff, the playwrights create and evolve a play about a central character named “Ashley”. Each playwright has the artistic freedom to develop their own Ashley character. The playwrights are assigned a specific location (or site) in which their play takes place. Typically, the sites are located in the Centre for Film & Theatre, and on performance day, groups of audience members are led from site to site, to view the cycle of plays.
We spoke to Garrett Ryan, 4th year playwright, about The Ashley Plays, and his contributions.
Guiding Principles
Theatre @ York is committed to diversifying its seasons to reflect the plurality of our students’ lived experiences. To that end, we are working to develop a series of guiding principles to inform our decision-making about the specific plays/performances/guest artists we program each season.
AMPD’s Commitment to Equity
I hope this message finds you and your families and communities in good health and spirits during the current circumstances. I know that the conditions necessitated by COVID-19 have lasted much longer than expected and I am grateful for your continued resilience and widespread generosity shown by people throughout AMPD over the past six months.
Associate Professor Michael Greyeyes will join the cast of Rutherford Falls, featuring largest Indigenous writing staff on TV
The series announced that Jana Schmieding, Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Leigh and Dustin Milligan have joined the cast.
