Rebecca Burton
Latest News on Rebecca Burton:
Nominations Announced for 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Nominees Include CURSED CHILD, & JULIET, & IS GOD IS & More. (Aug 29, 2022)
The Women's Caucus of Playwrights Guild of Canada Announces SureFire 2020 (Apr 30, 2021)
Ergo Arts Theatre Announces 2nd Annual ERGO PINK FEST (Mar 18, 2019)
Nominations Announced for 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Nominees Include CURSED CHILD, & JULIET, & IS GOD IS & More. (Aug 29, 2022)
The Women's Caucus of Playwrights Guild of Canada Announces SureFire 2020 (Apr 30, 2021)
Ergo Arts Theatre Announces 2nd Annual ERGO PINK FEST (Mar 18, 2019)
Rebecca Burton BIO
Rebecca Burton is the Membership and Professional Contracts Manager at Playwrights Guild of Canada, where she also co-founded Equity in Theatre (EIT – www.equityintheatre.com), a now defunct initiative designed to redress the under-representation of women and other marginalized communities in the Canadian theatre industry (2014 – 2017). She is also the staff liaison for and helps spearhead PGC's Women Caucus and its EDI projects.
Rebecca is a sometimes theatre practitioner. She has experience working as an actor, collective creationist, director, dramaturg, puppeteer, stagehand, and technician.
Rebecca also works as an editor, educator, and researcher. She specializes in Canadian Feminist Theatre, and she has taught Canadian theatre, intro drama, theatre history, and women's literature at various universities in Ontario. She is the author of the benchmark report, “Adding It Up: The Status of Women in Canadian Theatre” (2006), she co-edited the Winter 2016 edition of Canadian Theatre Review, she is the editor of "Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) 10-Minute Plays" (Playwrights Canada Press; 2016, 2020), and she has published in various industry journals (alt.theatre, CTR, TRiC). Most recently, Rebecca's article “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Canadian Theatre Here and Now – Part 1: Playwrights Guild of Canada and Its Women's Caucus” earned Honourable Mention for the 2020 Richard Plant Award bestowed by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
Rebecca has a BA in theatre and history from the University of Guelph, an MA in theatre from the University of Victoria, and she has PhD ABD status from the University of Toronto's Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.
Rebecca Burton News
Nominations Announced for 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Nominees Include CURSED CHILD, & JULIET, & IS GOD IS & More.
At a press conference held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 235 nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.
The Women's Caucus of Playwrights Guild of Canada Announces SureFire 2020
The Women's Caucus of Playwrights Guild of Canada has announced the second rendition of SureFire, a community-generated resource identifying remarkable, production-ready plays by Canadian women, trans creators, and non-binary artists.
Ergo Arts Theatre Announces 2nd Annual ERGO PINK FEST
Ergo Pink Fest is a 4-day theatre festival in Toronto (March 28-31, 2019), conceived and hosted by Ergo Arts Theatre (EAT) that gives voice to female and non-binary identified playwrights, providing them a unique platform to develop and showcase their work. The festival, being held at the Small World Music Centre, 180 Shaw Street, brings together award-winning playwrights and dramaturges Beverley Cooper, Marcia Johnson, Anita La Selva, Paula Wing and Elyne Quan to nurture the development of eight new plays.
50th Anniversary Presentation Of Groundbreaking LGBTQ Play At Buddies In Bad Times
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 premiere of John Herbert's groundbreaking play, Fortune and Men's Eyes. In celebration, Herbert's tour de force will be brought to life with a dramatic reading by an all-star cast featuring COLTON CURTIS, GEORGE KRISSA, GRAHAM PARKHURST, PAOLO SANTALUCIA and Dora Award winner, BRUCE DOW.
Playwrights Guild of Canada's CASA Award Honors Three Women Playwrights in South Africa
The CASA Award, a new playwriting award for women in South Africa, was announced at Playwrights Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Awards this past Sunday at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
Ken Rus Schmoll Directs THE FAMISHED Reading Today, 11/16
Off-Broadway's Page 73 Productions - a company dedicated to producing and developing works by early-career playwrights - will present readings of their 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow Max Posner's play THE FAMISHED today, November 16 at 2pm and 7pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's Creative Center (311 West 43rd Street, 8th Fl). OBIE Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll (TELEPHONE, A MAP OF VIRTUE) will direct.
Community Theatre of Little Rock Presents 'TIL BETH DO US PART, 5/20-28
The Community Theatre of Little Rock presents its Spring production of 'Til Beth Do Us Part' on May 20th, 21st, 27th and 28th at 7:30 pm and May 22nd and 29th at 2:00 pm, at the Public Theatre, located at 616 Center Street, next to Horn's in downtown Little Rock.
Community Theatre of Little Rock Presents TIL BETH DO US PART, 5/13-29
The Community Theatre of Little Rock presents its Spring production of 'Til Beth Do Us Part' on May 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 27th and 28th at 7:30 pm and May15th, 22nd and 29th at 2:00 pm, at the Public Theatre, located at 616 Center Street, next to Horn's in downtown Little Rock. Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for military, students and seniors age 65 and over, $12 for groups of 10 or more, and free of charge for children age 6 and under.
Community Theatre of Little Rock Presents TIL BETH DO US PART, 5/13-29
The Community Theatre of Little Rock presents its Spring production of 'Til Beth Do Us Part' on May 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 27th and 28th at 7:30 pm and May15th, 22nd and 29th at 2:00 pm, at the Public Theatre, located at 616 Center Street, next to Horn's in downtown Little Rock. Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for military, students and seniors age 65 and over, $12 for groups of 10 or more, and free of charge for children age 6 and under.
Dance New Amsterdam Presents 2nd Annual FREE Class Day 10/9
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), Lower Manhattan's largest dance center and one of NYC's most vibrant cultural hubs, will offer an entire day of FREE dance and wellness classes in a range of levels, from beginner to professional, on October 9, 2010.
Dance New Amsterdam Presents 2nd Annual FREE Class Day 10/9
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), Lower Manhattan's largest dance center and one of NYC's most vibrant cultural hubs, will offer an entire day of FREE dance and wellness classes in a range of levels, from beginner to professional, on October 9, 2010.
MISS PELL IS MISSING Plays MITF's Reading Series 7/29
Wildcat Theatricals will present a staged reading of Leonard Gershe's 1962 comedy Miss Pell is Missing at the June Havoc Theatre (312 W. 36 St.) on Thursday, July 29 at 12:30 and Friday, July 30 at 3:30, as part of the 11th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival's (MITF) Reading Series.
MISS PELL IS MISSING Plays MITF's Reading Series 7/29
Wildcat Theatricals will present a staged reading of Leonard Gershe's 1962 comedy Miss Pell is Missing at the June Havoc Theatre (312 W. 36 St.) on Thursday, July 29 at 12:30 and Friday, July 30 at 3:30, as part of the 11th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival's (MITF) Reading Series.
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