Location: Design Room Moderator: Robin Whittaker Yasmine Agocs, "Nuestro Hogar (Our Home): Collective Memory and Belonging in Latina/o Canadian Playtexts" The looming presence of home for exiles, migrants, and refugees invokes an ambivalent, complex blend of familial warmth and alienating coldness. In Latina/o narratives in Canada, ‘home’ is often depicted [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Curated Panel Rationale: The Costume Cutter is a central yet often overlooked role in theatrical production. If the Designer functions as the architect of a costume, the Cutter is its engineer, translating vision into a garment built precisely for a performer and the action on [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract In his provocative American Theatre op-ed, “Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them,” Michael J. Bobbitt laments spending “three whole months every fiscal year” on board duties—time he wishes he could reclaim for artistic work. His critique is not unique but pointed: [...]
Location: Movement Room Abstract Many Canadian theatre studies institutions – including CATR itself, and Canadian Theatre Review – are marking their 50th anniversaries, and the fields of publishing and media are transforming rapidly in our era. The time seems ripe to take a step back and ask: How are the [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jessica Watkin Kimberley McLeod, "Relative Care: Destabilizing Human-AI Relations in Secret Theatre’s Alone Together" Alone Together by Halifax’s Secret Theatre imagines a world in which family rental agencies have become the norm, particularly as a means of combatting loneliness. The experience takes place in an [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Derek Manderson Eva Bojner Horowitz, "Expertise in creative arts in boardrooms: A new perspective on transformative learning and problem solving" Drawing on Eva Bojner Horwitz’s interdisciplinary research and the conceptual foundations outlined in her book "A New Manuscript for societal stages" (2025), this paper presents a [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: This praxis workshop examines how feminist theoretical frameworks can meaningfully expand and deepen embodied performer training, particularly within somatic approaches to voice training. Rooted in the work of influential feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Hélène Cixous, and Julia Kristeva, and aligned with leading somatic voice methodologies developed by Catherine [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Jordan Tannahill’s latest play, Prince Faggot, trades on controversy. His first major U.S. premiere, the play ran for over six months in New York and dominated the 2025 Off-Broadway season. It begins by recalling the 2017 photograph of four-year-old Prince George in an “adorably fey [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Brianna Bear is an Indigenous artist based in the traditional territory of her father’s people in the Lekwungen lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in Victoria, B.C. Brianna has more than 15 years of experience. She began learning under Butch Dick and her grandfather [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Sponsored by the Belfry Theatre Keynote presentation by Nina Lee Aquino Biography Nina Lee Aquino, a Filipino Canadian, is a renowned director, dramaturge, and artistic leader. Her journey began as the inaugural Artistic Director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian theatre company (2002-2009), where she organized the [...]