Join us in celebrating the many outstanding achievements from the Centre:
Recipient: CDTPS professor emeritus and past director (1978 – 1980)
Michael J. Sidnell is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. He has published and lectured extensively on Irish drama and poetry, as well as on drama and theatre theory, and has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Canadian Forum and Modern Drama. His books include Dances of Death: The Group Theatre of London in the Thirties (1984) and a multi-volume Sources of Dramatic Theory, among other distinguished publications. He has also acted in or directed many stage productions at the Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto and elsewhere.
President’s Award for Distinguished Service
Recipient: CDTPS professor and past director (2007 – 2016)
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.’
Ann Saddlemyer Award/ Le prix Ann Saddlemyer
Honourable mention: CDTPS professor
Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017)
Heather McCallum Scholarship/ La bourse Heather McCallum
Recipient: CDTPS alumna
“‘A Spark of Freedom’: Archiving and Activating Intergenerational Trauma Through Creative Practice”
Richard Plant Award/ Le prix Richard Plant
Recipient: CDTPS alumna
“Beyond Shame and Blame in Pauline Johnson’s Performance Histories”
Recipients: CDTPS PhD students
Kelsey Jacobson, Scott Mealey, Jenny Salisbury, and Cassandra Silver
for their work with the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research.
Congratulations to the extraordinary organizers, presenters, and committee members on an outstanding conference!
View all 2018 awards and recipients.