Lecture

We’re excited to announce that Professor Samer Al-Saber will be a featured speaker for the 2024 Silversides Theatre Artist Series on March 18, at 3pm.  The lecture will be followed by a reception.

The Associate Chair of the UWaterloo's Theatre and Performance Program, Andy Houston hosts a discussion with the Stratford Festival's Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino.

Antoni Cimolino is from Sudbury, Ontario and holds an MFA from the University of Windsor. He began his theatre career in Stratford, Ontario as an actor in the late 1980s. He then focussed his efforts on directing, and moved up to executive roles at the Stratford Festival. He became the Artistic Director in 2013. Cimolino has contributed significantly to the Stratford Festival in terms of fundraising and construction initiatives. Most recently, he campaigned to build the new, multimillion dollar Tom Patterson Theatre.

Anti-Black Racism and Language

Vershawn Young - In Conversation with Awad Ibrahim​

The Silversides Theatre Artist Series is named after Brian Silverside, a Canadian Actor and stage technician who died in 2000. His family set up an endowment to offer an annual artist talk with leading Canadian Theatre artists.

Originally from Germany, Dr. Schreyer Duarte has made a name for herself as a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing in the past ten years. Her current production, a contemporary interpretation of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, is part of the 2019 Stratford Festival. Dr.

Communication Speaks! Department of Communication Arts Colloquium featuring Dr. Shana McDonald and Dr. David Janzen  

Naila Keleta-Mae will speak to women-identified and non-binary faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and staff at Waterloo Women’s Wednesdays about “Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women.” For close to two decades Trey Anthony has carved out a successful career as a published and produced playwright in Canada in a national theatre scene where few playwrights enjoy sustained success.

TomorrowLove is a series of thematically-linked playlets, set in many different versions of the near future, where one piece of technology has been developed with the intention of helping humans with their relationships. Sometimes it winds up bringing people closer together, and sometimes it pushes them further apart.

Silversides Theatre Artist Series - The Creation Process of Concord Floral

This panel is hosted in collaboration with the UWaterloo Equity Office, and the Special Adviser to the President—Women’s and Gender Issues.