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Sarah Garton Stanley (SGS)

Over the last several years, I have inhabited a variety of boxes. They are all connected. I am entranced by structure and love thinking about the content of boxes and how to connect them. If you are interested in the spaces that exist between things... then we have a lots to talk about and I have much to learn from you.

BIO 2023

Sarah/SGS is currently the Artistic Producer for the National Creation Fund (NAC), Creative Consultant to Richard II at the Stratford Festival, Co-Steward of the Historic Birchdale, theatre director, dramaturg, and Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, SGS, from Montreal, now lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Mi'kmaq in Southwest Nova Scotia.

 

During her tenure as Associate Artistic Director of English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre, she led The Cycle(s): a 7-year project dedicated to transformation in Canadian Theatre, and The Collaborations: a curatorial adventure that supported theatre artists in their home communities creating work profoundly impacted national conversations about, and presentations of, great theatre. She is co-founder of SpiderWebShow: the first digital-first theatre company in Canada and FOLDA, an internationally recognized festival dedicated to live digital art. She also co-founded the Baby Grand Theatre, was the 1st female Artistic Director at Buddies in Bad Times, and was the inaugural Artistic Associate for The Magnetic North Theatre Festival.

 

This award-winning artist has won and been nominated for several theatre awards and was the recipient of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas’ Elliot Hayes Award, and the Honorary Member Award for Canadian Association for Theatre Research and was recently named a 2022 Arne Bengt Johansson Fellow at The Banff Forum in PEI. Her current research-creation project Massey & Me: Conversations at the End of Theatre is a series of thought events referencing the CBC Massey Lectures. This critical reflection explores the genealogical, political, and administrative structures that house professional theatre in Canada. SGS is co-authoring Manifesto for Now with Owais Lightwala.

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