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Author Reading & Workshops – Rural Arts
C. E. GATCHALIAN
Reading: Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man
Workshop: Writing the Unraveling Self
Friday, September 19, 2025
Ssummerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Author Reading & Q&A – Rural Arts
BRIAN THOMAS ISAAC
Award-Winning Author of “All the Quiet Places”
Hosted by Jack Paterson
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 1 PM
New Translation Development – Rural Arts
FACELIFT
By Nathalie Boisvert
Translated by Johanna Nutter
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Sept. 18, 2025 | 1 PM
2018 So Far: Planes, Trains and Live Theatre
2018 so far..
January to March has been a whirl of trains, planes and buses. Theatre adventures have taken me to London (UK), Derry (Northern Ireland), Dublin (The Republic of Ireland), Oldenburg (Germany) and Montreal (Quebec, Canada). I was even able to hunker down over the translation keypad for a week in Munich (Germany) and, as I typed this, Edinburgh (Scotland).
Workshop with British Equity: The Actors Role in New Play and Creation Development (London, UK)
Exploring the Actors role in New Play Development
Translation: Bedtime Stories to Give You Nightmares
“I believe in children’s intelligence, and their ability to develop deep understanding when faced with a difficult issue.” Étienne Lepage, Playwright”
Dramaturgy & New Play Development with Theatre503
November and December New Play Development with London New Playwriting’ House Theatre503 have including the 503 Literary Department’s dramaturgical lead for the New Play Development Workshops in collaboration with British Actors’ Equity
Associate Producer: Icarus Theatre (London, UK)
International Large Tour
October 2017 – February 2019
Awards: The Cole Foundation Emerging Translator Award
Halifax translator Jennie Herbin and I have been awarded The Cole Foundation Award for Emerging Translators.
Towards a Global Practice (London, UK)
What happens when we apply the Information and Communication technologies that allow us to reach across the world in the creation and presentation of live performing arts?
Walt Whitman’s Secret nominated for 6 Jessie Richardson Awards
“…beautifully produced and performed…” Colin Thomas, Colinthomas.ca
Curation: Theatre503 Rapid Write Response (London, UK)
Theatre503 Rapid Write Response
May 21 – 22
7:30 PM
Theatre503
The Theatre Backpacker: Exploring New Form and Innovation in Germany
Conversation with Theater Wrede+ and Flausen + Incubator creator W. Wrede (Oldenburg, Germany)
Jack Paterson Theatre: Launching 2017
Shakespeare in London & New Form in Cologne
Flausen Kongress (Cologne, Germany)
February in Cologne. New Form Development and German Theatre,
Shakespeare’s Globe – Directing Studios (London, UK)
Jan. 2017
Masterclasses at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (London, UK)
2016 in Review
New Plays, Shakespeare, Devising, American Classics, Translation and Production from London, Cardiff and Vancouver
Production: Associate Artistic Director, The Presentation House Theatre (North Vancouver, CAN)
As the year wound down I was invited to join The Presentation House Theatre team (North Vancouver, CAN) as Associate Artistic Director from October to December.
Thoughts on Diversity: Casting Walt Whitman
Why in this day and age and in a city of such a rich diversity as Vancouver, artists still feel as if they are being left out. And, despite effort by institutions like Pacific Theatre and Bard on the Beach, the only answer can be is that they still are.
Producing 2016: BoucheWHACKED! Translation Workshop and Reading Series (Vancouver, CAN)
THE HOTTEST NEW FRANCOPHONE PLAYS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Outreach 2016: Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors
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