NEWSLETTER

At this year's Dora Mavor Moore Awards, paper SERIES received 7 nominations: Direction, Production, Sound Design/Composition, Set Design, Costume Design, Performance in a Featured Role/Ensemble. We are so proud of Cahoots Artistic Director Nina Lee Aquino who received a Dora for Outstanding Direction, and Richard Lee who received a Dora for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Congratulations to all the wonderfully talented artistis who worked on this production!

 

Stay tuned to www.cahoots.ca for paper SERIES updates.

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Cahoots is committed to new play development. Currently in the works is a trilogy of plays:

 

RH Thomson's: How to Become Chinese (for funding purposes) by David Yee

 

Joy by Judith Thompson and

 

I, Racist by Adam Lazarus

 

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The Playwright’s HotHouse consists of emerging to established playwrights with works that reflect the mandate of Cahoots. Playwrights develop their work under the guidance of Artistic Director Nina Lee Aquino. This season's participants are:

• Subtle Vigilance Calamity Collective (Mark Cassidy, Nisha Ahuja, Keith Barker & Alisha Stranges)
• Marjorie Chan
• Adam Lazarus
• Sarena Parmar
• Pamela Sinha
• Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
• David Yee

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We are pleased to welcome Derek Kwan as our Associate Producer/ Metcalf Foundation Intern. Derek makes his return to Toronto after seven years living abroad in Shanghai, China, and Bangkok, Thailand where he studied Cultural Management at Chulalongkorn University. Derek most recently served as Director of Marketing and Development at fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company where he worked on the company's last show Brown Balls.

Derek's position is made possible by funding from the Metcalf Foundation.

 

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We are pleased to announce Kawa Ada as our 2011-2012 Playwright-in-Residence. Educated at The Boston Conservatory, Kawa has performed on stages in Canada and the US, including being cast on Broadway in Bombay Dreams.  Other credits include Comedy of Errors, It's a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage); Mary's Wedding, The Wizard of Oz (The Grand); paper SERIES (Cahoots); and three seasons with The Shaw Festival.  He is a recipient of the Emerging Theatre Artist Award (Canadian Actors' Equity). Kawa's position is made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Playwright-in-Residence Program.

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Cahoots is pleased to welcome Audrey Dwyer as Administrator, New Harlem Productions in partnership with Cahoots Theatre Company. Audrey Dwyer has been working as a theatre artist for over ten years. Recent theatre work includes Studio 180's The Overwhelming, Canadian Stage's Dream in High Park, Obsidian Theatre's Black Medea, Mirvish/MTC's Medea. Audrey was the Associate Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Audrey's position is made possible by funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

 

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Need a rehearsal space? Cahoots has a studio to suit your needs:

• 14ft X 30ft (10ft ceilings)
• bathroom
• full kitchen including refrigerator, coffee maker, stove
• convenient downtown location

only $10/hr!

(discounted rates available for longer rentals)

 

Contact Sandra Lefrançois at sandra@cahoots.ca to book now!

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