2015-present
Assistant Curator, Live Projects and Performance Art Gallery of Ontario Lead curator of First Thursdays series bringing together musicians like like Peaches, Mykki Blanco, Madame Ghandi and guest-curators like Bruce LaBruce together with local and international performing artists. Additionally curating two years of AGO Friday Nights program, an acoustic live music experience in the museum's main hall. Both these programs led to the launch and curation of the inaugural season of AGO Live, performance specific series with artists Daina Asbhee, Marie Lambin Gagnon, Merce Cunningham Trust, Zadie Xa, Miho Hatori and original commission for an antiphonal choir by Owen Pallett. 2013-2015 Program Assistant, First Thursdays Art Gallery of Ontario Assisted in delivering the monthly 2000+ capacity program First Thursdays that included performing artists like Ben Kamino and musical artists like Grandmaster Flash. 2014 weighing and pensive [artist] Gallery TPW: Installation. cinematic desire: or how i learned to stop worrying and learned to read the signs [slideshow performance] The Theatre Centre. Triple Bill: Martingales [costume design] Toronto Dance Theatre. Created by: Christopher House. Henderson/Castle voyager [space and costume design] Toronto Dance Theatre. Created by: Ame Henderson/Public Recordings. 2013 what we are saying [space and costume design] The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Created by Ame Henderson/Public Recordings. 2012 Paper Laced with Gold [set design] Harbourfront Centre. Writer and Director: Maggie MacDonald and Stephanie Markowitz. Ajax and Little Illiad [costume design] Harbourfront Centre World Stage. Writer and Director: Frank Cox O'Connell and Evan Webber. One Year After [space and set design] Toronto Free Gallery. Writer: R. M. Vaughan, Directed by: Frank Cox O'Connell. Out The Window [costume design] The Theatre Centre. Created by: Liza Balkan. 2011 The Family Story [set design] Double Double Land. Writer and Director: Aurora Stewart de Peña. 300 Tapes [costume design] The Theatre Centre. Created by: Ame Henderson/Public Recordings. 2010 And so the animal looked back… [exhibition] Art Gallery of York University. Windows [set design] Theatre Passe Muraille. Writer: Liz Peterson. Directed by: Alex Wolfson. 2009 Sexual Aberrations: Part One [set design] Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Writer and Director: Alex Wolfson. Russophila: Tarkovsky [slideshow performance] Tranzac Club. The Works [art direction] TV Pilot. Director: Simon Ennis. 2008 If I’m Me Today, Must I Tomorrow [set and space design] Gallery TPW. Writer and Director: Alex Wolfson. Mount Shasta [art department] Short Film. Director: Oliver Husain. 2007 Magic, Mystery or Matrix [set design] InterAccess: Electronic Media Arts Gallery. Writer and Director: Alex Wolfson and Liz Peterson. Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain [performance] The Drake Hotel. Cinemoi screenings: 'Germany in Autumn' and 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism': Lecture and Screening. Five Thinking Hats [art department] Short Film. Director: Oliver Husain. Rewind [costume] Short film. Director: Lara Azzopardi. 2006 Destalinizing Stalin Trampoline Hall: Public lecture. Jet Set and Etcetera [slideshow performance] Oasis Club. 2005 The Selected Lovers of Mercedes de Acosta [set design] The Music Gallery. Writer and Director: Liz Peterson. I am an apartment building [costume] Short film. Director: Lara Azzopardi. 2003 the wizard of oz: in six parts - a political comedy [set and costume design] Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Writer and Director: Alex Wolfson. Macbeth [set design] Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Director: Devon Elke. 2002 Baby Doll, I’m Through With Games [set and costume design] Tarragon Theatre Extra Space. Writer and Director: Alex Wolfson. 2001 Two Rooms [set and costume design] Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Director: Lara Azzopardi. Bacchae [set design assistance] Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse: Assistant to Astrid Janson. Director: Daniel Brooks. TECHNICAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE Glenn Morris Theatre Robert Gill Theatre Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse RESIDENCIES Dance4, Nottingham UK OBORO, Montreal CAN The Copycat Academy, Luminato Festival, Toronto CAN OTHER Pleasuredome Film and Video Collective: Programming Board Member. C Magazine, International Contemporary Arts: Internship. |