Theatre Ontario Presents...
June 2018
In This Issue...
Summer Theatre Intensive Scholarships | Support Us | Festival Awards and Adjudications | Youth Theatre Training Program Grant Recipients | Stories from the Professional Theatre Training Program | New Members of the Talent Bank of Adjudicators and Instructors | Hosting Trial Adjudications | New Board Members | Upcoming Workshops | Youth Advisory Committee Summer Reading List | Conversation Starters
Summer Theatre Intensive
Apply for our Summer Theatre Intensive Scholarships
Parsai Immigration Services
The Parsai Immigration Scholarship offers 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
The New Talent Scholarship, sponsored by ART Agency Inc., AMI Artist Management Inc., and Seventh House Talent, offers an opportunity for youth 16 to 26 to attend the Summer Theatre Intensive.

Join Us at Our Summer Theatre Intensive
The deadline to register for our Summer Theatre Intensive is June 22. For 2018, we are offering the following courses:

WEEK ONE (August 5-10th)
Directing - From First Reading to Opening Night with Diana Leblanc - NEARLY SOLD OUT!
Stage Combat with Daniel Levinson

WEEK TWO (August 12-17th)
Hot Scenes - Building your Acting Technique with Brenda Kamino - NEARLY SOLD OUT!
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
Support Us
Theatre Ontario's Partners and Board of Directors Challenge YOU Today!
Help us raise $4,500 by June 30th and your donations will be matched. Do the math –together we can turn $4,500 into $9,000!

Join our Team of Champions by helping us fund our Summer Theatre Intensive Program and Youth Scholarship

Every donation made from the beginning of this campaign, will also help Theatre Ontario qualify to WIN $10,000 as part of this year’s Great Canadian Giving Challenge taking place during the month of June.

Our Double Your Donation campaign starts today – DONATE NOW.

Let’s Champion for Theatre together, and make this year’s summer training program even more successful!
Great Canadian Giving Challenge
Festival
Congratulations Festival 2018 Participants
Congratulations to all of the participants at Theatre Ontario Festival 2018 in London.

Ottawa Little Theatre was awarded the Elsie for Outstanding Production in Festival.

Ottawa Little Theatre's Dead Accounts
Festival Adjudications
Festival Adjudications
Festival is a symposium for dedicated community theatre artists to attend adjudications, workshops, and play readings. Educational highlights from Maja Ardal's adjudications are available on the Theatre Ontario Blog.

Grants
Congratulations to the Spring 2018 Recipients of Youth Theatre Training Program Grants
We are excited to announce the latest recipients of training grants through our Youth Theatre Training Program (YTTP). We thank all those who applied to the program. $25,250 was awarded in total among six recipients.

Stories from the Professional Theatre Training Program
PTTP Stephanie Graham
PTTP witzel ted
Ontario Arts Council
PTTP and YTTP are funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Talent Bank of Adjudicators and Instructors
Welcome to our Newest Talent Bank Members
The Theatre Ontario Talent Bank is a program that matches organizations (particularly community theatres and educational organizations) with professional theatre teachers and trainers for adjudications, workshops, and short-term consulting contracts. We are pleased to welcome the newest additions to our Talent Bank for 2018.

Seeking Host Theatres for Upcoming Trial Adjudications
At Festival 2018, we completed our latest "Introduction to Adjudication" course - and are now beginning the process of match-making applicants to suitable community theatre productions to practice and demonstrate their skills.

Introduction to Adjudication Class of 2018
Governance
Welcome to Our New Board Members
We welcome our newly elected Board members for the 2018 to 2020 two-year terms on our Board of Directors. We welcomed six new members and re-elected three current members, joining the five members serving on two-year terms from 2017 to 2019.

New Board Members 2018
Training
Creator Stream Workshops
The Creator Stream of workshops is for anyone looking to produce their own work or start their own theatre company.

Learn about the background and impetus behind the Intimacy for the Stage initiative
June 12 at 6:00pm via live webinar

Ready Set Show Foundations of Indie Producing
Youth Advisory Committee
Summer Kick-Off Reading List
Summer is finally here (we hope), and with that, comes beaches, road trips, camping, and summer reading lists! Our Youth Advisory Committee is here to help.

If you’re hoping to develop a new understanding for the industry, relate to theatre professionals, or simply to get inspired, here are a few books you might want to check out.

Youth Advisory Committee Recommended Reading
Conversation Starters
From Our Blog
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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 June 1
  • Considering consent in immersive theatre - especially when staging intimacy
  • The role the arts can play in the story of reconciliation
  • Decolonizing theatre: in text, in the creation process, and in the theatre ecosystem
  • Catch up on this issue
From May 25
  • Kevin Loring's PACT conference keynote - Whose reality are we reflecting in our theatres?
  • Ontario's Fringe Festival season opens
  • Division expansion at the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts' Dora Mavor Moore Awards
  • Catch up on this issue
From May 11
  • The representation of artists with disabilities on stage
  • In defense of "brand name" art
  • The body-shaming "epidemic" at collegiate theatre programs
  • Catch up on this issue
From May 4
  • Introducing the inaugural recipients of The Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award - established by longtime Talent Bank adjudicator Ross Stuart and his wife Ann
  • Season and community grant announcements in London, Woodstock, and Toronto
  • Catch up on this issue
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