2018 President’s Award for Distinguished Service

Stephen Johnson served as CDTPS director for nine years and is a past-president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century popular performance, including in Theatre Research in Canada, which he (co)edited for ten years. He is principal investigator of Canada West: Performance Culture in Southern Ontario and was recently awarded two SSHRC grants for Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Canadian Performance, a database, on-line gallery, and oral history pilot project, and A Study of the Petitions to Censor Jim Crow in Toronto, 1840-1843, an exploration of popular performance, theatre licensing, and race relations in pre-Confederation ‘Canada West.’