In the inaugural episode, Dian and Nina converse with theatre artist ahdri zhina mandiela, founder of b current Performing Arts and the Interlocutor for NAC English Theatre/BTW partnership, as well...
Women of the Fur Trade playwright Frances Končan shares the inspiration and creative process behind their play, and the importance of sitting around and talking.
About the bookIn eighteen hundred and...
This month we are joined by Norma Dunning, Inuit writer, scholar, professor and grandmother, to talk about her book Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity. This poetry collection examines...
A Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Kevin Loring, Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre, is an accomplished Canadian playwright, actor and director and was the winner of...
In this final episode of the podcast as her tenure draws to a close, Jillian interviews former NAC English Theatre Artistic Directors Marti Maraden and Peter Hinton-Davis, two giants on...
Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, novelist, scriptwriter and journalist. He was born and still lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario. Taylor has authored nearly...
Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.
Zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan, of mixed Anishinaabe and Slovene descent,...
What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile is written by Larry Audlaluk who was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inukjuak in...
Jillian speaks with directing supernova Julie Taymor about pushing theatricality in cinema and innovating cinematic language in the theatre. Also: playing with idiographs across scale, the poetry of transitions, gender...
Jillian speaks with singular international theatre maker and Artistic Director of Quebec City’s Ex Machina, Robert Lepage, about stretching rehearsal schedules to make space for the “rendering farm”, creating the...