August 2014

Theatre Ontario Presents...

In This Issue

Executive Director

Workshops for 2014-2015

Youth Satellite Face-to-Face

Call for Professional Theatre Training Program

PTTP Profiles

Adjudicators Symposium

Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship

Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival

Ontario Off Stage

Catch up with News on Our Blog

Culture Days

ONstage

Find out about current productions ONstage across Ontario.

Check out ONstage Openings on our blog for weekly announcements.

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Ontario Summer Theatre

Theatre Ontario individual members can access discount ticket offers from theatres across Ontario

Auditions

FOR ACTORS
Auditions are available for individual members of Theatre Ontario on the Auditions page of our website.

FOR PRODUCERS
Theatres can submit audition notices for posting on our website.

Training

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Theatre Ontario's courses and workshops

Workshops from theatres and Talent Bank members
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Classes for adults and youth offered by Theatre Ontario member studios
Training programs by members of Theatre Ontario

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Festivals

SummerWorks
Toronto
August 7 to 17

The New Groundswell Festival
Nightwood Theatre
Toronto
September 8 to 14

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Fringe

On the Edge Fringe
North Bay
August 15 to 17

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Announcing Bruce Pitkin as our Full-Time Executive Director

Theatre Ontario is pleased to announce that Bruce Pitkin has been hired as Executive Director; he has been serving as interim Executive Director since March 2014.

"We are very excited to enter this new phase with Bruce Pitkin," said Joanne Williams, Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors, and a member of the Search Committee. "We are encouraged by Bruce's determination to bring new initiatives to Theatre Ontario and his attention to the organization's viability for years to come. With his unique background, he is someone who will strengthen our place in the many vibrant theatrical communities across the province."

Find out more about Bruce Pitkin

Get Ready for 14/15 Workshop Program

Workshops at Theatre Ontario

As Summer closes its door, Fall welcomes a window of opportunity: a chance to take your career to the next level! And Theatre Ontario is offering an even better way to stage the future of our members by creating two workshop streams: The Career Stream and The Creator Stream.

Find out about Theatre Ontario's new Workshop Streams

Save the dates for our first workshops in our Career Stream and in our Creator Stream

Developing Youth Networks Across Ontario at Satellite Face-to-Face

Hey Theatre Ontario - it's your friends from the YAC, the Youth Advisory Committee! You may remember that we hosted the Provincial Youth Forum, which coincided with the AGM in May. We have been busily buzzing away at our next project, and are excited to let you in on it.

This September, some of the youth from across the province who attended our Forum will be engaging their own communities in a continuation of the theme "Developing Our Network." This series of events will be called the Satellite Face-to-Face (SF2F).

Be part of Theatre Ontario's Youth Advisory Committee's "Satellite Face-to-Face"

Funding Professional Theatre Mentorships

Do you need financial support for professional development or a "change of direction" in your career? The deadline to apply for our Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) is October 1.

The Professional Theatre Training Program offers financial support for unique and flexible training with a chosen mentor in any theatrical discipline (except performance.) Applicants must have at least two years of professional experience following their formal education.

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

Apply to Theatre Ontario's Professional Theatre Training Program

Profiling Projects Funded by the Professional Theatre Training Program

PTTP Joe Recinos at Alameda Theatre Crowdfunding Video

Last month Pam Patel began training in Artistic Direction with Majdi Bou-Matar at the MT Space in Kitchener, and Rachel Penny began training in Producing with Aislinn Rose.

We also checked in with Joseph Recinos, training in Producing with Marilo Nunez at Alameda Theatre Company in Toronto, as they prepare a crowdfunding video for their SummerWorks production.

Find out about these Professional Theatre Training Program projects on the Theatre Ontario blog

Professional Development for Adjudicators

Theatre Ontario's Adjudicators Symposium is an opportunity for established adjudicators to benefit from professional development and allow them to assemble and compare techniques and practices, discuss training needs and opportunities, develop methodologies for feedback, and network.

Join us on September 13 for this year's Theatre Ontario Adjudicators Symposium

"It's Impossible, of course, but Try"

Why Not Theatre and Theatre Ontario partnered to create a unique and exciting Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship, providing the opportunity for up to two emerging theatre artists to train in theatre creation with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company.

Last month, Colin Bruce Anthes shared his experience at the program. In Part Two, Miriam Fernandes writes on the Theatre Ontario Blog about "chasing the impossible."

Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship Skidmore Intensive Class

A stomp in time and space

Join us for a free demonstration and discussion of SITI Company's training dichotomies, Suzuki and Viewpoints, by the Independent Theatre Creator's International Training Scholarship Recipients on September 22 in Toronto.

RSVP for Theatre Ontario and Why Not Theatre's Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship demonstration

The Ensemble Mystique

The two Neil Munro Intern Directors at the Shaw Festival are now in the time between assistant directing, and beginning rehearsals for their own Directors Project shows.

Rachel Peake writes on the Theatre Ontario Blog about what she has learned about "the ensemble mystique" this summer

We are thrilled to announce yet another highly successful year of applications for the 2015 Directors Project. In June we received an overwhelming response to our call resulting in a total of 81 received from across the country and beyond, including Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New York. Find out more about the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival

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 August 1

The Ontario Summer Theatre blogger visits St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Highlands Summer Festival, and Driftwood Theatre
Change in the arts sector: Can we speed it up, or must we wait it out?
The role of Fringe in the Canadian theatre ecology
Deciding whether or not to include a trigger warning
When culture goes corporate, Canada's creativity suffers
Equity in Theatre: A new project from Playwrights Guild of Canada

From July 18

The Ontario Summer Theatre blogger visits 4th Line Theatre
Joel Varty, President of VOS Theatre in Cobourg, with a call to the membership suitable for any community theatre
Reflections on the closing of TheatreBooks
The Cultural Value Project: moving the conversation beyond the economic impact of the arts

From July 4

The Ontario Summer Theatre blogger visits Upper Canada Playhouse
Learning from the "gamification" of immersive theatre
Profiling the Playwright's Unit at Tarragon Theatre

Catch up with News on Our Blog

The Theatre Ontario Blog is our home for news, announcements, analysis, and opinion curated and written by Theatre Ontario.

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Culture Days "ParticipACTION" for the Arts

There is still time for you to register your event for Culture Days 2014, coming up on September 26, 27, and 28.

Culture Days feature free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate "behind the scenes" - and to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their community.

Still looking for an idea for your event? Check out the resources available from Ontario Culture Days, including ideas for theatres and performing arts groups.

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Brandon Moore

Communications Coordinator, Theatre Ontario

news@theatreontario.org

416.408.4556 x.13

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.