Location: Design Room Moderator: Karen Fricker Barry Freeman, "Stage Wright: a Celebration, a Critique, a Mourning" On April 19, 2023, my friend and colleague Kevin Wright unexpectedly passed away. Kevin was the Technical Director of the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where I have worked [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Facilitated by Laurel Green with Derek Manderson. At CATR 2025, we convened a well-attended roundtable which invited panellists to model unique experimental play frames through which a collective of observers was transformed into an enthusiastic community of players. For CATR 2026, we propose facilitating a game design [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstracts: Discussions on identity politics have been in the scholarly discourse since the 1960s when focus on this topic got more attention after Gordon Allport’s 1954 text “The Nature of Prejudice” became the seminal source for many social scientists to begin to understand the complexity of [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Sponsored by the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET) and St. Thomas University with support from SSHRC Connections program Moderator: Dr. Sasha Kovacs Abstract: This plenary panel looks to advance conversations around censorship, cancellation, and artistic freedom within Canadian theatre and performance by examining the institutional, [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Wes Pearce Shelley Scott, ""We Are All Related": Theatre Calgary's production of Awoowaakii by Sable Sweetgrass" At the June 2025 CATR conference in Regina, Sara Schroete and j skelton delivered a paper entitled “Seen Elsewhere: Queer and Trans Identities as a Place of Liminal Belonging [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Narges Montakhabi Jenn Boulay, "Accessible by Design: Building a Future of Inclusive Theatre through Creative Accessibility" This paper examines how embedding accessibility practices--such as audio description and captioning--can enhance accessibility within the theatre. I argue that accessibility is not a “simple add-on” (Dokumaci n.p), but rather [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Jenn Stephenson Adam Paolozza and Karen Fricker, "At The Intersection of Sustainability and Storytelling: A Critical Dialogue between Adam Paolozza and Karen Fricker" Following the Bad New Days production of Last Landscape (January 2025), which blended eco-dramaturgy with physical theatre, Artistic Director Adam Paolozza invited [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: It was a combination of of receiving difficult feedback from former students and a strong desire to integrate training and understandings of social justice education in tangible ways which led University of Windsor, School of Dramatic Art, Professors Meaghen Quinn and Lionel Walsh, in collaboration with independent [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Have you ever wondered what happens to waste when you throw it away? Join Trash and Treasure as they welcome today’s recycling haul to the transfer station! A Waste of Stage Time is an interactive theatrical experience exploring waste, sustainability, and the value we bestow upon [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Taylor Marie Graham Amanda Attrell, "“You stole it”: Truth in Cliff Cardinal’s Radical Retelling" In the fall of 2021, Cliff Cardinal entered Crow’s Theatre’s mainstage from behind a red velvet curtain to radically adapt Shakespeare for Toronto’s theatre audiences: “Let’s just be here, together, for [...]