2017 University of Toronto Drama Festival

February 9-11, 2017, Hart House Theatre

I was the Festival Coordinator for the UofT Drama Festival, which was founded in 1936 and revived in 1993. I sat on the UofT Drama Coalition and worked with Hart House General Manager Doug Floyd. David Yee was the adjudicator. Six student theatre companies participated, putting on nine shows over three days, including the premiere of Nam Nguyen's A Perfect Bowl of Phở.

At the conclusion of my first year as Festival Coordinator, I implemented changes to how the Festival was run; establishing a lineage of pairs of Coordinators in order to preserve institutional memory, and allowing submissions to the Festival from groups outside of the six established campus theatre companies. I also re-organized the Google Drive that had been passed down from previous Coordinators to make it more easily navigable.

Find an archived copy of Hart House's page on the Festival here.

(Image: a composite image of the posters for the 2017 festival)

Thursday, February 9, 2017

• Family Portrait, written and directed by Katerina Hatzinakos, presented by the St. Michael's College Troubadours
• Swipe Right, written by Savana James and Mackenzie Stewart and directed by Nicole Bell, presented by the Woodsworth Innis New Drama Society
• Just the Fax, Ma'am, Just the Fax, written by Lucas Loizou and directed by by Denis Başar, presented by the UC Follies

Friday, February 10, 2017

• Mama, written by Shaquille Pottinger and directed by Fuschia Bolton, presented by the UTM Drama Club
• A Lullaby and an Apology, written by Cy Macikunas and directed by Maher Sinno, presented by the Woodsworth Innis New Drama Society
• Suzanne, written and directed by Jonathan Dick, presented by the Trinity College Dramatic Society

Saturday, February 11, 2017

• A Perfect Bowl of Phở, written by Nam Nguyen and directed by Abby Palmer, presented by the Victoria College Drama Society
• Touch, written by Marium Raja and directed by Melissa Anne Fearon, presented by the UC Follies
• Monsters, written by Mackenzie Burton and directed by Kaitlyn White, presented by the UTM Drama Club