Canadian directors on the rise despite indifference to their craft

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It’s consistently disheartening how undervalued the role of director is in English Canadian theatre. One of the ways this is reflected is in how few places there are to study the craft of direction compared with acting schools.

Toronto, the alleged hub of English-language Canadian theatre, lost its main MFA program in stage direction over the course of the pandemic. In August 2020, the York University theatre department and Canadian Stage In its short decade of existence , the York/Canadian Stage MFA was hugely influential in helping emerging directors elevate their craft, and in helping mid-career stage artists who had started in other areas of the performing arts cement a transition to direction.

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