Jillian Keilly is a director, writer and composer who graduated from York University (Toronto) with a BFA, specializing in directing. She is the recipient of the Canada Council’s 1997 John Hirsch Prize, and the 1996 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Emerging Artist of the Year Award. She is founding Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and Artistic Associate of the resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company.

“The central element controlling all that happens on stage is time… every second is contained and measured using music notation. Using our system of music notation and grid placement, we are able to create visually complex scenes through relatively simple choreography. The term we use for this is kaleidography: Synchronized movement harmonics. This works both in movement and aural aspects of performance; an actor has his monologue anticipated and reverberated by a twenty-person chorus through an underscored whispered fugue, with key phrases perfectly falling on the whispered echoes of the full group.” – from Ms. Keiley’s artistic statement

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The play delves into the stories of three generations of Chinese Canadians, and examines the pain and wonder of straddling two cultures. Other Women is a moving, magical piece of storytelling.

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Restless Prayers is a fugue-like series of interconnected meditations on fate, sacrifice and innocence lost. A workshop presentation in collaboration with Toronto’s Theatre Centre.

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War of the Worlds is a multi-media spectacle, which explores the circumstantial meeting of three characters: Russian inventor Leon Theremin, creative visionary Orson Welles and Welles’ typist (and uncredited collaborator) Sylvia Breach. The play draws inspiration from the history of radio: the utopian fervour of its beginnings, the authority of its early to mid-century zenith, and especially young Welles’ prank that foreshadowed the loss of faith in the mass media.

This production earned nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations, winning four trophies in the following categories:

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Wendy Van Riesen)
Outstanding Lighting Design (John Webber)
Outstanding Costume Design (Barbara Clayden)
Outstanding Sound Design/Original Composition (Peter Hannan)

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