“If you’re all about bold ideas, then here’s mine: Let me be your first,” says Julia Fedorin, a fourth year Communication Arts and Design Practice student, in a video pitched to Shopify. Since it was posted two weeks ago, the video has racked up over one million views and seven thousand engagements on X.
This fall, Emma will be moving on to an exciting new chapter: pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Technical Design and Production at the prestigious David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Meet our Theatre and Performance students who will be working in the industry this summer.
Stratford Text Coach Tim Welham to Direct Fall 2025 Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Announcing the winners of the 2024/25 Theatre and Performance prizes.
Lilian Adom was chosen to join the Young, Gifted & Black training program at Obsidian Theatre as their Lighting Designer.
Assistant Professor Adan Jerreat-Poole attended the Youth Imagine the Future (YIF) awards ceremony on December 10.
The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Award-winning Canadian director and actor, Tanja Jacobs is directing the Fall Production,
EVERYBODY by Black American playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
EVERYBODY is a fourth wall defying contemporary adaptation of the 15th-century morality play, EVERYMAN. Jacobs-Jenkins’ secular take on the idea of morality and the journey to one’s demise is brilliantly written as a comedic adventure to the afterlife, where the protagonist, EVERYBODY, must answer to DEATH and bring a presentation of their life to GOD. EVERYBODY, terrified of completing this endeavour alone, seeks out the help of various figures in their life to accompany them into the unknown potential afterlife.
“I love the balance of having a semester where I can study a variety of subjects that will go towards my majors and minors.”
Dr. Lennart Nacke, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Director of the HCI Games Group, was awarded $350,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in the Active and Assisted Living Program as a Canadian partner to fund EXERGETIC, a research program aiming to develop innovative digital solutions that utilize exercise games (Exergames) to improve physical and cognitive functions. EXERGETIC researchers will create exergame training experiences in an ecologically valid and safe setting for geriatric populations, called the ExerCube.