Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Nicole Nolette Abstract: This curated panel will present the ongoing work of Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs, a cross–Canada, industry-academic partnership fostering decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and access (DC/AR/EDIA) in post-secondary theatre education and funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant [...]

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract: A birch bark canoe repair, feminist ephemera rekindled, scattered leaflets in a Quebec village, Edmonton in beadwork, Indigenous Passion plays and Chinese opera furnishings in the Pacific Northwest, Shakespeare and spitballs at Stratford, scripts of care for Disability performance, traces of labour and love [...]

Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Recent PhD graduates, Dr Taylor Marie Graham and Dr Lauren McLean have solicited and compiled a series of important personal essays focused on the graduate student experience in the theatre in Canada. Graduate school can often be an isolating experience; however, those feelings of isolation [...]

Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstracts: Kathleen Gallagher, "Theatre Workshops and Troubled Worlds" Paper #1 will introduce our 5-year SSHRC-funded ethnographic research project, The Drama Workshop: Collective discernment and artistic practice as relational pedagogies for an epoch of intersecting ecological, social, and economic crises (2025-2030), sharing its conceptual and theoretical grounding, [...]

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract: Session led by Rebecca Burton, Lisa Davenport, Barry Freeman, and Brenda Martinez Luna Rina Fraticelli’s 1982 landmark report, “The Status of Women in the Canadian Theatre,” exposed widespread gender inequities, including the stark figure that plays by women comprised only 10% of the nation’s [...]

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 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: 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 Abstract: This roundtable proposes discussion of how university theatre professors in Canada work and teach together with colleagues that have distinct forms of experience and expertise. Some professors spend a minimum of five years earning a doctorate degree. Some spend twice as long in the [...]