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Theatre Ontario Presents...
May 2018
In This Issue...
Festival | Summer Theatre Intensive Scholarships | Hiring Education Assistant | Professional Theatre Training Program Grant Recipients | Certificates of Excellence | Ontario Summer Theatre | Marketing on a Dime | Upcoming Workshops | Annual General Meeting | Conversation Starters
Festival
Toronto Irish Players Little Gem
Ottawa Little Theatre's Dead Accounts
Welcome Toronto Irish Players and Ottawa Little Theatre to Festival
Welcome to our final two Theatre Ontario Festival companies: Toronto Irish Players, who will present Little Gem by Elaine Murphy on May 17, and Ottawa Little Theatre who will present Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck on May 19.

Festival tickets are still available. Join us for performances, adjudications, workshops, and our Annual General Meeting.

Theatre Ontario Festival 2018 runs May 16 to 20, hosted by London Community Players, in partnership with Theatre Ontario and the Western Ontario Drama League.
Welcome Lisa Codrington as Festival Playwright-in-Person
Theatre Ontario Festival 2018 is excited to welcome Lisa Codrington as “Playwright-in-Person” at this year’s Festival. Lisa will be reading from her work on Friday, May 18 at 1:30pm at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Suites in London. This program is supported by "Play Connect" from Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Lisa Codrington
Welcome Allan Stratton as Festival Honourary Chair
Playwright and former adjudicator Allan Stratton is our Honourary Chair of Theatre Ontario Festival 2018.

Allan Stratton
Summer Theatre Intensive
Introducing Two New Scholarships
Parsai Immigration Services
As part of our exciting partnership with Parsai Immigration Services, we are pleased to announce the implementation of our new Parsai Immigration Scholarship being awarded as part of our Summer Theatre Intensive. The scholarships will offer newcomers a chance to gain a valuable Canadian training opportunity, and hands-on experience in one of our most recognized and successful professional training programs.

New Talent Scholarship Sponsors
We are also delighted to announce the exciting partnership of ART Agency Inc., AMI Artist Management Inc., and Seventh House Talent as they become our first annual Co-Sponsors for our New Talent Scholarship.

Summer Theatre Intensive 2017 Telling Our Important Stories
Youth Scholarship Opportunity
Applications are now open for our Summer Theatre Intensive Youth Scholarship.

We will be providing the course, meals, accommodations, Stratford Festival ticket, and a travel stipend for one lucky participant between the ages of 16-26.

Seeking Education Assistant for Our Summer Theatre Intensive
We are seeking an Education Assistant to assist with the preparation and execution of our Summer Theatre Intensive. This position is 30 hours/week, paying $14.00 per hour, and is open to current secondary students, post-secondary students or those who are within 6 months of graduation from either. The application deadline is May 18.

Join Us at Our Summer Theatre Intensive
For 2018, we are offering the following courses:

WEEK ONE (August 5-10th)
Learning to Love Your Monologue with Peggy Coffey
Directing - From First Reading to Opening Night with Diana Leblanc
Stage Combat with Daniel Levinson
Teaching Drama to Children & Youth - Building Your Toolkit with Andrew Lamb

WEEK TWO (August 12-17th)
Hot Scenes - Building your Acting Technique with Brenda Kamino
The Right Direction with John P. Kelly
Voice Bootcamp with Elley-Ray Hennessy
Creation Lab with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Summer Theatre Intensive Directing Course
Summer Theatre Intensive
Grants
Congratulations to the Professional Theatre Training Program Spring 2018 Grant Recipients
We are pleased to announce the latest recipients of training grants through our Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). We thank all those who applied to the program. Over $42,500 was awarded in total among 13 recipients.

Stories from the Professional Theatre Training Program
PTTP Story Darwin Lyons
PTTP Story Andrea Scott
Ontario Arts Council
PTTP and YTTP are funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Awards
Honouring Excellence by Students in Theatre
Do you know an outstanding student who has made a commitment to the drama/theatre community in his/her/their school?

Teachers and schools can honour those students with Theatre Ontario’s Certificate of Excellence—and with commencement season approaching, now is a terrific time for recognition!

Certificate of Excellence
Ontario Summer Theatre
Warming Up for the Summer Season
Sunny skies and picnic lunches are coming your way sooner than you think! Ontario Summer Theatres (OST) have been hard at work preparing their 2018 seasons and trust me, you don’t want to miss what they have in store!

Ontario Summer Theatre
Training
Introducing New Marketing Workshop
We are introducing a new workshop: "Marketing on a Dime: Promote Your Performance to Your Audience" with Izad Etemadi, running May 30 at 3:00pm in Toronto.

Izad Etemadi
What Is Intimacy on Stage?
An Introduction to Creating a Safe Space
Learn about the background and impetus behind the Intimacy for the Stage initiative
June 12 at 6:00pm via live webinar
Free for Theatre Ontario members

Siobhan Richardson
Career Stream Workshops
The Career Stream of workshops is for those who want to learn and harness the basic tools and resources needed to thrive in the profession.

Launching Your Career workshop with Rachel Kennedy and guest TBA
Answers to your FAQs about the business of acting.
May 23 at 3:00pm in Toronto

Launching Your Career
Creator Stream Workshops
The Creator Stream of workshops is for anyone looking to produce their own work or start their own theatre company.

Grant Writing Information Session webinar with Pat Bradley (Ontario Arts Council)
Preparing an OAC application? Get the inside scoop.
May 8 via pre-recorded webinar

Approaches to Dramaturgy workshop with Matt McGeachy
De-mystify dramaturgy and do it yourself!
May 29 at 3:00pm in Toronto

Grant Writing Information Session webinar with Pat Bradley (Ontario Arts Council)
Preparing an OAC application? Get the inside scoop
June 5 via pre-recorded webinar

Ready, Set, Show! Foundations of Indie Producing workshop with Rachel Kennedy and guest TBA
Thinking of producing a show or starting a theatre company?
June 13 at 3:00pm in Toronto

Dramaturgy workshop
Ready Set Show Foundations of Indie Producing
Governance
Join Us at Our Annual General Meeting
All members of Theatre Ontario are invited to the Annual General Meeting on May 19, 2018 at 11:30am at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, London (Festival Hotel for Theatre Ontario Festival 2018.)

Conversation Starters
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Ontario Off Stage
In our "Ontario Off Stage" column, we share good conversations and news from Ontario's theatres. Recent highlights:
From April 27
  • New measures from the Canada Council and the Federal Ministry of Heritage to promote harassment-free work environments at recipient organizations
  • The current state of open script submission policies
  • Gender-neutral performance awards at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2019
  • Catch up on this issue
From April 20
  • The state of gender parity in Canadian theatre
  • "Cooking Up Colonialism" at Cahoots Theatre
  • Young People's Theatre receives a pledge for their "Room for Imagination" facility project
  • Catch up on this issue
From April 6
  • People for Education reported on the challenges of equitable access to arts programs and resources in Ontario's schools.
  • Indie theatres in Hamilton working together collectively to sell their work as a season
  • Catch up on this issue
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