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Festivals

Sears Ontario Drama Festival Provincial Showcase
Hamilton
May 7 to 10

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Toronto
May 11 to 18

WeeFestival of Theatre and Culture for Early Years
Toronto
May 12 to 19

Theatre Ontario Festival
Sarnia
May 14 to 18

InspiraTO Theatre Festival
Toronto
May 29 to June 7

Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Halifax / Darmouth NS
June 18 to 28

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London Fringe Festival
June 3 to 14

Ottawa Fringe Festival
June 19 to 29

Toronto Fringe Festival
July 2 to 13

Hamilton Fringe Festival
July 17 to 27

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Staging Our Future

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There is still time for you to be part of Theatre Ontario's "Staging Our Future" Annual Meeting and Celebration.

We're honouring outstanding legacies, connecting youth from across the province and meeting the theatre of tomorrow, sharing our news from the past year, and introducing our new brand, website, and advocacy video. Join us at our Theatre Ontario Annual Meeting and Celebration

Bid on our Silent Auction

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Showcasing Outstanding Community Theatre at Festival

We are pleased to welcome our final two productions to Theatre Ontario Festival 2014 in Sarnia. The Curtain Club from Richmond Hill will represent the Association of Community Theatres - Central Ontario, and Peterborough Theatre Guild will represents the Eastern Ontario Drama League.

Anne Mooney writes about the four participating Theatre Ontario Festival companies on our Blog

Theatre Ontario Festival is also a classroom for passionate, dedicated community theatre artists; a celebration of excellence in community theatre; and a destination bringing together theatre lovers from across the province. We'll see you May 14 to 18 in Sarnia.

Unable to join us? Read our posts on our blog as we share updates, join the conversation at #TOfest, and participate on Sunday morning at the Awards Brunch Live-Blog.

Join us at Theatre Ontario Festival

Job Posting: Executive Director

Theatre Ontario now invites applications for the position of Executive Director.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director provides leadership through the management of resources and affairs of Theatre Ontario in accordance with the mission, vision, values and policies of the organization. The application deadline is May 16.

Find out more about the position of Executive Director of Theatre Ontario

Auditions: How to Get It Right

We're pleased to welcome Sera-Lys McArthur, joining Grace Lynn Kung and Joanne Williams on our panel for our "Audition Talk Back" on May 6 in Toronto.

At this workshop, artists can discuss their audition experiences and engage in an open dialogue about auditioning for theatre. Participants will learn how to nail an audition, what casting directors look for, and answers to many questions.

Join us at Theatre Ontario's Audition Talk Back

Grant Writing Info Session in Hamilton

Our next Grant Writing Information Session for Theatre Individuals and Groups is on May 20 in Hamilton.

Looking for tips and must-dos for preparing an application to the Ontario Arts Council? Pat Bradley, Theatre Officer of the OAC, will share her perspective, information, and tips about project grants, particularly the OAC's three theatre project programs.

Join us at our Grant Writing Information Session in Hamilton

Building Good Character at Our "Crazy Canucks" Weekend Intensive

Are you ready to unleash your inner Canadian? Do you want to discover what makes a Canadian character unique? Renowned director and playwright Ken Gass will lead participants through an exploration of complex characters from the Canadian dramatic canon. Join us May 31 and June 1 in Toronto.

Join us at Theatre Ontario's Crazy Canucks! Building Good Character weekend intensive

Emerging Playwrights and Emerging Plays

Whether it's turning an idea into a first draft, or learning how to self-edit and critique - we have a playwriting workshop for you with popular instructor and Talent Bank member Lindsay Price.

Join us on May 31 for Playwriting: Idea to First Draft, a workshop for emerging playwrights and learn the tools and techniques for inspiration and idea development. Join us at Theatre Ontario's Playwriting: Idea to First Draft

Join us on June 1 for Playwriting: How to Self-Edit and Critique, a workshop for emerging plays, with tools and techniques on moving a play forward, processing feedback, and tools and techniques for a play "under construction." Join us at Theatre Ontario's Playwriting: How to Self-Edit and Critique

Apply for the 2015 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at The Shaw

Applications are now open for the 2015 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival. The Directors Project is one of the most prestigious and vigorously sought-after director development and showcase opportunities for emerging directors in Canada.

Neil Munro Intern Directors Project 2013 The Bear Rose Plotek

Each year, two intern directors are selected to participate in the program. Successful candidates are promising professionals who have not had an opportunity to work on the scale of production that is characteristic of the Shaw Festival and who are at a point in their careers where an extended residency with a company like The Shaw is of benefit to their professional development. The application deadline is June 20.

Find out more and apply for the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival

Financial Basics: What Self-Employed Artists Should Know

We're pleased to announce that our next free Financial Basics for Artists workshop with Vernal Banton of JVS Toronto is on May 27 in Toronto.

Learning some basic financial skills will enable you to take control of your finances and make the best possible money decisions for now and the future!

Join us at Theatre Ontario's "Financial Basics for Artists" free workshop

Engage Your Community on Culture Days

Calling all theatres, performing arts troupes and theatre artists!

On Monday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontario Culture Days in association with the Theatre Ontario will be holding a free webinar open to theatres, troupes and theatre artists across the province.

Learn about how you can participate in the 5th annual Culture Days celebration. Culture Days will share success stories, activity ideas and provide tips and tools to help make your Culture Days activities a success!

Find out more about Culture Days and how you can participate at our free webinar

Congratulations to the Spring 2014 Professional Theatre Training Program Grant Recipients

We are pleased to announce the latest recipients of training grants through Theatre Ontario's Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). $29,000 was awarded in total.

Meet the Spring 2014 Theatre Ontario PTTP Grant Recipients

This program is funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Thinking of Producing a Show or Starting a Theatre Company?

If you want to do a show but have never produced professionally before, and if you want to know what questions to ask first, our "Self-Producing: The Basics" workshop is for you! This is a practical seminar facilitated by Mairin Smit, Program Coordinator with a Guest Producer. Joining us at our next Self-Producing workshop on June 9 in Toronto is Scott Dermody of Soup Can Theatre.

Join us at Theatre Ontario's Self-Producing: The Basics workshop

Indulge Your Passion for Theatre and Learning at our Summer Theatre Intensive

Weekend Intensives

Experience a week away from all distractions and immerse yourself in a unique theatrical learning experience. You will learn new skills, meet passionate theatre people, enrich your theatre capacity, and flex your creative muscle! Join us August 10 to 16 in Waterloo and take part in one of our five courses for performers and directors:

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Acting...and Then Some! with Tom Diamond
More Hot Scenes: Building Acting Technique with Brenda Kamino
Review your Revue: Creating a Musical Theatre Performance with David Gale & Randy Vancourt
How Do I Make This Play Happen?: Directing for Beginners with Thom Currie
Whose Text Is It, Anyway? Adventurous Approaches to Performance with John P. Kelly

Join us at Theatre Ontario's Summer Theatre Intensive

Searching for a Master

Miriam Fernandes and Colin Bruce Anthes were chosen as the two recipients of the Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship, a partnership between Theatre Ontario and Why Not Theatre.

The program was sponsored by Nekison Engineering and Contractors Ltd. with funds matched by artsVest Toronto. artsVest Toronto is run by Business For The Arts with the support of Canadian Heritage and the Toronto Arts Council.

The training starts this month, and Miriam writes on our blog about her anticipation for the training.

Looking Ahead to the 2014 Ontario Summer Theatre Season

Spring has finally sprung as we reach the beginning of May, and with this change of weather comes the highly anticipated beginning of the summer theatre season.

We are lucky to have a wide ranging and dynamic summer theatre scene in the province of Ontario. Big venue, small space, outside, indoors, lakeside or travelling by bus, there's something for everyone and I'm excited to see what the 2014 summer season brings!

Mairin Smit writes on our blog about Ontario Summer Theatre

Welcoming Another New Face

We're excited to welcome another new member to the team at Theatre Ontario.

Ashleigh Addison is our new Community Outreach Coordinator and joined us at the beginning of April.

Welcome Ashleigh!

Remembering Anne Wilson

With much sadness, we share the news of the death of Anne Wilson of Woodstock. Anne was "a card-carrying member" of Theatre Ontario from the beginning, a former chair of our Board of Directors, and a past recipient of the Michael Spence Award for Contribution to Community Theatre.

I had the pleasure of meeting Anne back in 1999 - I was Theatre Ontario Festival Stage Manager that year, she was the Stage Manager of Woodstock Little Theatre's acclaimed production of Orphans. She and her team received an Adjudicator's Award for a memorable intermission transformation of the set that garnered tremendous applause when the curtains opened for the second act of the show. Anne was one-of-a-kind.

Read Anne Wilson's obituary

Theatre Woodstock's Orphans from Festival 1999

Anne Wilson (L), with members of the company from Theatre Woodstock of Orphans, Theatre Ontario Festival 1999

Ontario Off Stage

In "Ontario Off Stage" on our blog, we curate theatre conversations and news from around the province and beyond. Highlights from last month include:

From April 25

"There is just too much evidence that we are NOT living in a time of scarcity." - The need for more abundance thinking across the theatre ecosystem
The changing nature of theatre criticism
How this year's U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Drama was an example of artistic producing at its best

From April 11

"How Canadian theatre is killing itself - or how to really LOVE our audiences"
Models for an ensemble theatre company
Bored assumptions about Boards and fundraising

From April 4

Lessons learned about audiences while working at a theatre box office
70% of GTA residents regularly participate in the arts by attending events, volunteering, or donating, according to a Toronto Arts Foundation study

Overcoming the "Starving Artist" Syndrome

As an artist you are super-talented at so many things, but there is a missing link. Something that causes that self-fulfilling prophecy to take over your thoughts and steer you away from success... Something that just hasn't clicked yet. So why is that? The reason is that there is something that you don't know...YET. There is something that your creative mentors and teachers failed to teach you about how to succeed financially in your artistic career. Find out at Overcoming the "Starving Artist" Syndrome workshop with Lisa Phillips on May 21.

Join us at Overcoming the "Starving Artist" Syndrome workshop

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We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,681 individual artists and 1,125 organizations in 216 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.8 million.