andrea donaldson cv oct 2011 website draft
DIRECTOR – FULL PRODUCTIONS
| Tyumen, Then – Director and Producer
By Adam Underwood October Theatre – Specially selected by the Toronto Fringe Festival – Robert Gill Theatre
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| The Atomic Weight of Happiness – Director and Co-Creator
Co-Created with Meagan O’Shea – Stand Up Dance / Hub 14 Upcoming remount as part of Theatre Direct Canada’s season Artscape Wychwood Barns
Dora Nominations: Outstanding Set Design & Outstanding Lighting Design
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| Montparnasse – Director and Co-Creator
Created with Erin Shields, Maev Beaty Groundwater Productions in association with Theatre Passe Muraille (As well as Summerworks & Buddies in Bad Times – Rhubarb! Festival)
Dora Nominations: Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Performance – Ensemble, Outstanding Costume Design Summerworks Spotlight Award (Director) NOW Magazine Roundup – Outstanding Director & Outstanding Production
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| Offensive Fouls – Director
By Jason Long Theatre Direct Canada (Touring Production)
Dora Nominations: Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performance
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| The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski – Director and Dramaturge
By Erin Shields Groundwater Productions Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace / Canadian Tour: Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg – FemFest • Metro Studio, Victoria – UNO Festival Factory Theatre Studio – Fringe • Diesel Theatre – Best of the Fringe
Dora Nomination: Outstanding Performance NOW Magazine Roundup – Outstanding Director & Outstanding Production
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| Wireless (2008) & What’s Your Nature? (2007) – Director and Co-Creator
Andrea Donaldson ,Gil Garrett & The Ensemble / Andrea Donaldson & The Ensemble The Blyth Festival Theatre – Young Company
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| Garden – Director and Playwright
By Andrea Donaldson Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Rhubarb!
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| Crack – Director and Dramaturge
By Rob Baker Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Rhubarb! Festival & The Office – Vancouver, BC
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| The Possibilities – Director
The Dumb Woman’s Ecstasy, She Sees the Argument But & The Philosopher and the Three Village Women By Howard Barker Factory Studio Theatre – Summerworks |
WORKSHOPS AND READINGS
Sleeptalker – Director and Dramaturge
By Jill Battson
The Theatre Centre
Finding Alice / Elsa Project – Director and Dramaturge
By SPiLL Propagation – DEAF ARTS COLLECTIVE IN OTTAWA
Great Canadian Theatre Company & RESO
Pullyupullus – Director
By Tololwa Mollel
Foundry Theatre
Mourning Amsterdam – Director and Dramaturge
By Michelle Polak and Thomas Morgan Jones
Aluna Rehearsal Space
The Tempest and the Birch Tree – Director
By Jonathon Kline
Bathurst Street Theatre – Toronto Fringe Festival 24-Hour Playwriting Contest
Boxed In – Director
By Julia Lederer
Factory Studio Theatre – Summerworks Theatre Festival
I Flushed My Lover Down the Loo – Director
By Erin Shields
Strange Sisters Cabaret – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Joy vs. the Giant – Director
By Kathleen Philips
Tapestry Nightwood Studio – Nightwood Theatre Write from the Hip
DEVISED WORK – CREATOR / PERFORMER
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Switched By Anna Chatterton & Andrea Donaldson – Buzz Festival (2010 & 2011) Theatre Passe Muraille Directed by Allyson McMackon
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| Housebound
By Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Marie Beath Badian, Maev Beaty, Anna Chatterton, Clare Preuss, Erin Shields, Jenny Young, Andrea Donaldson
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| And by the Way, Miss
Created by URGE with the Ensemble – Theatre Direct Canada Director: URGE (Fides Krucker, Katherine Duncanson, Marie-Josée Chartier, Linda C Smith)
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Production
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| Living Room
By Andrea Donaldson, Laura Quigley, Jacob Spencer – seventeenth floor performance company Havana Theatre & Granville Island, Vancouver, SONIC BOOM, Toronto, Mansion, Victoria
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| Shhh…
By Andrea Donaldson, Heather Lindsay, Laura Quigley – seventeenth floor performance company The Poor Alex, Toronto, Bats Theatre, New Zealand, Studio 16, Vancouver |
Etiquette Dance
with Erin Shields
Hysteria Festival – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & RED, Lula Lounge
Iron Out
Solo performance
Hysteria Festival – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & Day o’ Delight – Clay and Paper Theatre
PERFORMER
Life of Galileo
By Brecht (Translation by Birgit Schreyer Duarte with Jacob Zimmer)
Dir: Jacob Zimmer with Brendan Healey
Convocation Hall & Canadian Stage Festival of New Ideas
The Eyes of Heaven
By Beverley Cooper
Director: Gina Wilkinson
The Blyth Festival Theatre
Seven Lears
By Howard Barker
Director: DD Kugler
School for Contemporary Arts, SFU Vancouver
ASSOCIATE / ASSISTANT DIRECTING & DESIGNING
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The Eyes of Heaven – Assistant Director and Actor By Beverly Cooper Directed by Gina Wilkinson at The Blyth Festival
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| Abattoir – Dramaturgical Support and Text Director
By Karen & Allen Kaeja, Fides Krucker, Edgardo Moreno, Jason Sherman Kaeja d’Dance – Premiere Dance Theatre
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| MIS-Understood – Co-Director
By The Ensemble Directed with Erin Shields for Theatre Revolve at Factory Studio Theatre
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| The Drawer Boy – Assistant Director
By Michael Healey Directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones at Theatre Passe Muraille
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| Action – Associate Director
By Sam Shepard Directed by Brendan Healy at Equity Showcase Theatre
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| Nod – Assistant Director (of three development phases)
By Rick Roberts Directed by Jacquie Thomas – Theatre Gargantua and Factory Theatre
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| The Exit Room – Assistant Director (of remount for CINARS)
By Michael Spence Directed by Jacquie Thomas – Theatre Gargantua
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| Escape from Happiness – Design Assistant to Shawn Kerwin (Theatre Ontario – PTTP Grant)
By George F Walker, Directed by Ken Gass at Factory Theatre
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| Bloom – Design Assistant to David Skelton (Theatre Ontario – PTTP Grant)
By Guillermo Verdecchia, Directed by Soheil Parsa – Modern Times/The Theatre Centre |
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
• BFA – THEATRE School for Contemporary Arts – Simon Fraser University
• Peter Hinton – Masterclass for Directors – Magnetic North
• Directors’ Lab North – Tarragon Theatre
• SITI Company – New York City – Suzuki & Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints
• Video Cabaret – Black Box Sessions – Directing
TEACHING/GUEST ARTIST EXPERIENCE
• Tarragon Theatre – Paprika Festival • Carlos Bulosan Theatre – Playwrights’ Unit
• The Blyth Festival Theatre – Young Company • Nightwood Theatre – Write from the Hip
• Theatre Revolve – Mentorship & Direction • Centre for Indigenous Theatre – Movement
• Oasis Alternative School (At Risk Youth Initiative through Paprika) • Central Tech Collegiate Institute
MISCELLANEOUS
• Theatre Direct Canada – Playwright in Residence 2006/2007
• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Antechamber Playwrights’ Unit 2004/2005
• Nomination – OAC John Hirsch Directing Award 2008
• Associate Artist of Groundwater Productions, multi award-winning Toronto Theatre Company
• Guest Associate Artist for Directors’ Lab North at Tarragon Theatre 2011-2012
• Harbourfront Ambassador for World Stage 2009/2010
• Co-founded seventeenth floor performance in which produced Living Room (Vancouver, Toronto, Victoria), Shhh… (Toronto, Vancouver, New Zealand), as well as numerous cabaret events.
