One of the three judges on the U of T Spotlight Playwriting Competition panel this year is accomplished theatre artist April Siutong Leung.
April Siutong Leung 梁筱彤is a performer and creator based in Toronto, raised in Hong Kong. She has worked with companies including: Factory Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, fu-GEN Theatre, DopoLavoro Teatreale, Solar Stage, and Carousel Players. Her current work tends to examine what it means to be Chinese-Canadian, Hong Kong identity and culture, emergent and surveillant technologies, as well as food. Always food. April recently created her first digital media work “Timekeeper” with support from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals initiative. She was selected by Cahoots Theatre as one of their thirty theatre-makers who they consider the future, and who they think will shape the next thirty years in Canadian theatre.
Read more about the competition and the panel of judges on our website.
