Associate Dean and long-time Drama faculty member, Bill Chesney is not relaxing this summer. Â He is designing four out of the five shows in the Lighthouse Festival Theatre's 35th anniversary season.
The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is excited to announce that Toronto-based actor-playwright-director, Martha Ross, has been contracted to direct the winter production of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.
They walk these floors at night. Working in the afterlife. Like the buttons they crafted, we are fastened to our history.
Everything old is new again. Â In February of this year the Department of Drama and Speech Communication put out a call for a new Assistant Professor position within the unit of Speech Communication.
On April 24th, Paul Cegys and Andy Houston presented their process and challenges regarding their work on the play "From Solitary to Solidarity: Unravelling the Ligatures of Ashley Smith". Â The presentation took place at the REAP felt lab in St. Jacobs for the faculty and staff of the Department of Drama and Speech Communication.
DAC faculty members, Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Glenn Stillar and Dave Goodwin recently teamed up with Kelly Grindrod of uÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's School of Pharmacy on a joint research project: to explore how to convince doctors and patients to reduce antibiotic use.
Professor Jennifer Roberts-Smith is the recipient of a 2014 Ontario Early Researcher Award given to scholars to build teams of student and graduate researchers.
The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is excited to announce that Toronto-based actor-director, Stewart Arnott, has been contracted to direct the fall production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
The Drama program does it all. From adapting Shakespeare to staging current issues, from learning technical theatre skills to studying performance theory: students develop intellectual, applied and creative capacity.