Lab Facilitator Peter Hinton was the National Arts Centre’s Artistic Director of English Theatre from 2005 to 2012. In 2007, Mr. Hinton welcomed Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company to the NAC, with whom the NAC English Theatre partnered to produce the world premiere of Margaret Atwood’s stage adaptation of her novel, The Penelopiad. His selected directing credits for the NAC include Marie Clements’ Copper Thunderbird, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Michel Tremblay’s Saint Carmen of The Main and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child. He was an associate artist at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for seven seasons, directing The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Universe, The Odyssey, The Duchess of Malfi, Into the Woods, and all three parts of his own verse trilogy entitled The Swanne. He spent five years as the Dramaturge in Residence at Playwrights Workshop Montreal and has been Associate Artistic Director at both The Canadian Stage Company and Theatre Passe Muraille. Mr. Hinton was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009.

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This new iteration of Directors’ Lab is an exciting component of Rumble’s Mentorship Program, designed to catalyze relationships between emerging and established artists and facilitate young artists’ transition to a professional career.

Lab facilitator Ron Jenkins is an Edmonton-based director and two-time Siminovitch Prize nominee. Ron has been the Artistic Director of Shadow Theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, and Workshop West, and is a founding member of Skid Theatre and November Theatre. He has directed at the Citadel, ATP, Vertigo, Tarragon, Factory, Passe Muraille, LKTYP, MTYP, GCTC, Concrete, Ghost River, the Cultch, Theatre Calgary, Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse, and Off-Broadway in NYC. Ron has won ten Sterling Awards as a director and playwright and the Betty Mitchell Award for Direction. He is also the winner of the 2004 Syncrude Award for Artistic Innovation.

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D-Lab 2022
Collective Dreaming: Designer-Director Collaboration
Co-Facilitated by Joanna Yu and Anita Rochon
September 6-10  2022
Progress Lab 1422 | What Lab

Rumble is pleased to accept submissions for “D-Lab 2022: Collective Dreaming (Designer-Director Collaboration)”, a Masterclass intensive co-led by Joanna Yu & Anita Rochon.

The Lab is a five-day intensive that will take place September 6 – 12 2022 at both Progress Lab 1422, and What Lab, in East Vancouver.

We are seeking submissions from Designers, Directors, and Dramaturges, and people somewhere in between – to engage in collegial knowledge exchange and practical collaborative explorations at both Progress Lab 1422, and What Lab, two east Vancouver development and creation spaces.

About Our Masterclass Leaders:

Anita Rochon, She | Her (Vancouver, BC)

Anita Rochon is a performance director primarily focused on the creation of new work. Since 2006, she’s been the Artistic Director of The Chop with Emelia Symington Fedy. The Chop has produced numerous new works and tours nationally and internationally.

Anita freelance directs in a range of styles from classical texts to documentary work to relational installations to contemporary dance. She collaborates with some of the country’s exceptional companies including Theatre Replacement, Electric Company Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Théâtre la Seizième, The Shaw Festival, Belfry Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Globe Theatre and The Belfry Theatre.

She mentors and directs at Studio 58 and the National Theatre School of Canada, and is an alum of both institutions. She was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for an Outstanding Body of Work by a New Director, the Siminovitch Protégé prize (awarded by Kim Collier) and a Mayor’s Arts Award (awarded by Donna Spencer).

Joanna Yu, She | Her (Stratford, Ontario)

Joanna is a set and costume designer born in Hong Kong and raised in Thornhill, Ontario. Over the past fourteen years, Joanna has designed over 100 productions for large and small theatres across Canada.

Design credits include collaborations with: Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Young People’s Theatre, Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Factory Theatre, Obsidian, Cahoots, fu-Gen, The Blyth Festival, Musical Stage Co., Theatre Passé Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times, Why Not Theatre, Nightwood, Project: Humanity, The Grand, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick,

Mirvish, Lemon Tree Productions, Signal Theatre, Luminato. Joanna is the 2019 recipient of the Virginia and Mrytle Cooper award for Costume design and the 2017 recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.

Joanna currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Associated Designers of Canada (ADC659) and is currently working towards a Diploma in HR Management.

www.joannayudesign.com

Ideal participants may include those who:

• are interested in the collaboration between Theatrical Direction and Theatrical Design in storytelling.
• are Directors, Designers, Dramaturges either new or novice in their craft, or senior artists seeking to expand their knowledge of collaborative processes.
• are multi-disciplinary artists coming to theatre and performance from another practice.
• habitually think in Image.
• struggle to think in
• have been away from a regular artistic practice or are looking to reinvigorate their current practice.

*A note on the term “professional”: This need not necessarily mean full-time work, nor does it require affiliation with any professional association (e.g. CAEA, UDA, ACTRA, ADC). By “professional experience” we mean time spent outside of a training institution in which an artist is actively practicing and showcasing their craft/tradition within their means.

P.S. We know COVID-19 shut down the sector recently, so if you have any hesitation with if you have “enough credits” or any other such qualifications please contact jiv@rumble.org (but you’re most likely welcome to apply.)

PROGRAM DETAILS

Masterclass sessions

September 6 – 12 – 10am-6pm

Workshop location

Progress Lab 1422

1422 William Street

Vancouver, BC V5L 2P7

Unceded Coast Salish Territories

What Lab
202-1814 Pandora dr.

Vancouver, BC V5L 1M5

Cost of Participation: $300 + GST = $315.00

A small bursary is available for those who demonstrate financial need. Please see the submission/bursary application requirements.

Submission Requirements:

• A recent CV
• An artist statement (max. 1 page)
  • Tell us about your current practice and interests
• Statement of Intent (max. 1 page)
  • Tell us why you want to take this workshop and how your current practice and interests would align / challenge this process.
• Portfolio
  • If you’re the type of artist that maintains a portfolio, feel free to send us a few samples or direct us to a website. (1-5 Images / 2-5 minutes audio/visual)

Bursary Application Requirements:

One paragraph describing how a small bursary would help reduce barriers to attendance.

Please note: You do not have to prove anything here, anyone identifying financial need is assumed to be acting truthfully. Bursaries are limited and will be awarded based on demonstrated need.

Additional info:

• The cohort will be limited to a maximum of 10 participants.
• Participants will have access to creation space at Progress Lab 1422, and What Lab after workshop hours subject to availability.
• We strongly encourage submissions from artists who self-identify as members of under-represented communities or with a lived experience of marginalization broadly speaking.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 22 | 11:59 PM PST

Please e-mail your submissions to jiv@rumble.org with the subject line: “DLAB 2022 application”.

ABOUT RUMBLE
Rumble creates, presents, and produces contemporary performance. Working in a decentralized collective model, Rumble is committed to prioritizing projects and initiatives that utilize art to expand collective imagination, collaboration, and build a deeper understanding of relationality and community.

Guiding Values

Curiosity: Maintain an active and open approach to people, thought, expression, ideas, and world views.

Courage: Have courage to destabilize norms, encourage risk, engage in grey areas, respond to need, and to operate irrespective of precedent.

Reciprocity: Respect and trust in our collaborations and relationships built on equitably fostering mutual benefit.

For more information, contact: jiv@rumble.org | www.rumble.org

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Entitled “Directing from the Inside > Out”, the Lab focused on adapting autobiographical material and found texts into performance. The masterclass explored the integration of narrative and counter narrative and the adaptive cohesion of dramaturgical form in the creation of new works, and included discussions with guest artists around dramaturgy, design, and defining one’s audience. We were also fortunate to have Registered Clinical Counsellor (and former theatre artist) Tanya Podlozniuk join us for the week to assist participants with the process of working with difficult material. 

The guiding questions for this year’s masterclass were: 

1) Building Content: How do you build performance from autobiographical / biographical material and/or lived experience? 

2) Finding Form: How does this content become structured into compelling performance and navigate larger concepts and broader questions? 

3) Entering Dialogue: How do form and content come together through direction, with considerations of design and production elements, and become a full performance with a consciousness of intended audience? 

About Our Masterclass Leader: Maiko Yamamoto

Since 2003, Maiko has been an Artistic Director of Theatre Replacement, a company she formed with fellow artist James Long. The company’s work has focused on building new, experimental and intercultural performances that react to contemporary existence through a highly evolved and extended process of collaboration, and explores unique and challenging ways of using content and staging material. In addition to her work with T/R, Maiko directs, writes, teaches, mentors and creates contemporary performance for and with a diverse range of companies and institutions, including the National Theatre School, Company 605, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the MAKE Artists Residency in Ireland, among others. She holds a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and a MAA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. theatrereplacement.org 

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Rumble Theatre was pleased to present the sixth installment of Directorsʼ Lab, led by celebrated Canadian director Weyni Mengesha. Directors’ Lab is an integral component of Rumble’s Mentorship Program, designed to catalyze relationships between emerging and established artists and facilitate young artists’ transition to a professional career.

The Lab is a workshop for emerging directors who want to get rigorous with the foundations of their craft. Over five days, the participants discussed principles of directing, examined and analyzed a text, rehearsed scenes with professional actors, and reflected on the processes. They also learned more about the designer-director relationship during sessions with some veteran Vancouver designers.

Master Director Weyni Mengesha
Weyni Mengesha started her career directing ’da Kink in my Hair, helping build it into an international sensation, and composing its Dora-nominated score. The show went on to make history, selling out some of the largest houses in the country. Some of her other directing credits include: Father Comes Home from the Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks (Soulpepper Theatre), which won Outstanding Production at the 2017 Dora Awards; Butcher by Nicolas Billion (Why Not Theatre), which won Best Direction at the 2016 Doras; Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (Soulpepper), which received six Dora nominations in 2010; and, in 2011, Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi (Soulpepper), which broke box office records, won two Toronto Critic Awards (including best new play), and is now a hit CBC TV show. Weyni is also a committed mentor of new talent. She has been the co-director of the acclaimed AMY (Artists Mentoring Youth) Project, training young women in performance arts since 2005, and she continues to guest teach at acting training programs across the country, including The National Theatre School of Canada.

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Master Director Kim Collier
Kim is a director, creator, teacher, actress and the co-founder of Electric Company Theatre where she was Artistic Producer for 15 years. The last few years she was Resident Artist at Canadian Stage Theatre and the inaugural director of their new MFA in Directing with York University. Recently she directed a new interpretation of Sweeney Todd for Vancouver Opera, Saint Joan (Arts Club Theatre), The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary), and Hamlet (Bard on the Beach). With Electric Company she was the co-creator / director of a large body of work including: Tear The Curtain (a film / theatre hybrid), No Exit (Jean Paul Sartre’s play transformed into a live film theatre experience) and Studies in Motion. She also directed a film version of their play The Score with Screen Siren Pictures and CBC. Kim was honored to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Letters last June from Thompson Rivers University. She is the recipient of the prestigious Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize for Directing, four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for Direction, and (with Electric Company) five for Outstanding Production, three for co-writing, and numerous Innovation Awards. She is the recipient of the Vancouver Mayors Arts Award and is a graduate of Studio 58 as an actress.

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