Nightwood Theatre’s Board of Directors are thrilled to announce Naz Afsahi (she/they) as the new Managing Director. Bringing over a decade of experience in the Toronto theatre sector, Naz first joined Nightwood in 2015 as the Metcalf Foundation General Manager Intern, working closely with the previous executive leaders, Beth Brown and Kelly Thornton. Over the …
Nightwood Theatre is delighted to share the incredible artists we have selected to receive Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators (RGTC)! We were honoured to receive so many engaging applications and we thank everyone who took the time to share more about their exciting work-in-progress! Congratulations to Nightwood’s 2022 OAC RGTC recipients (pictured above left to …
Nightwood Theatre and Tapestry Opera are deeply disappointed to share the news that the lease for our offices and The Ernest Balmer Studio in the Distillery Historic District will not be renewed, after operating out of the Distillery for almost 20 years. As of March 2022, and five months in advance of the signed lease, …
Running November 10-17, our annual Groundswell Festival invites the audience to get creative, offering a six-day, interactive digital retreat to generate ideas and spotlight brand new works from our Write From The Hip playwright’s unit (WFTH). Inspired by the success of Nightwood’s Creatryx Writing Room, this season’s festival offers a unique opportunity for folks to hear selections of new plays from Anahita …
After eight seasons as Nightwood’s invaluable Managing Director, Beth Brown is moving on to a new adventure as the Executive Director at Soundstreams at the top of November.
We are thrilled to share the newest group of powerhouse theatre practitioners that we’re welcoming into the 2021-22 Nightwood Innovators program!
This Thursday marks the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Long-overdue, many are planning how they will mark this vital day in meaningful and active ways, and how they will create new traditions around healing and hope to carry on for years to come. The Downie & Wenjack Fund has an extensive array of ideas …
Fall has freshly arrived and what better way to get into the spirit than with an inspiring theatre piece that centres care, coziness, imagination and gratitude? So with that, we can’t wait to share Rumble Theatre’s moving Good Things To Do with audiences next week! Conceived by Siminovitch Protégé Prize recipient Christine Quintana, in collaboration with Jessie Award-winning …
Nightwood is thrilled to launch our 2021-22 season with Rumble Theatre‘s imaginative and interactive online experience Good Things To Do. Blending an ethereal sonic landscape, solitary physical environment, and an unexpected use of technology, Good Things To Do invites participants to place themselves within a dreamscape in which they possess extraordinary powers. This wondrously immersive experience is a meditation …
Nightwood is delighted to be welcoming two new team members to the coven over the next few months! Please join us in welcoming Nightwood’s Artistic Producer Associate Reva Lokhande and (as of October) the incoming Head of Development Erika Morey! Reva Lokhande (she/her) is an arts manager and advocator, artist, actor, and aspiring stage manager, producer and director. She …
