Nina Lee Aquino is a Filipino-Canadian theatre director who was the founding artistic director of Toronto's fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.
Career
In 2012 she was appointed artistic director of Toronto's Factory Theatre.[1] After a ten-year tenure at Factory, she was named artistic director of English Theatre at Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.[2][3] Aquino is credited with a string of firsts in Asian Canadian theatre: she organized the first Asian Canadian theatre conference; she edited the first Asian Canadian play anthology, and she co-edited the first book on Asian Canadian theatre.[4] She also currently serves as the president of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT).[5] Aquino has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award.[6]
Over the last decade, Aquino has directed multiple seminal Canadian productions at major Canadian theatre companies including Soulpepper Theatre,[7] Tarragon,[8] and the Shaw Festival.[9]
References
- ^ "Filipino Canadian Nina Lee Aquino appointed artistic director of NAC English Theatre". CBC. January 6, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
- ^ "Nina Lee Aquino | Biographies". nac-cna.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "[Video] ▸ Introducing Nina Lee Aquino". nac-cna.ca. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ "Nina Lee Aquino | Playwrights Canada Press". www.playwrightscanada.com. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "PACT / Board of Directors". www.pact.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "From a line of Filipino revolutionaries, leadership is in Nina Lee Aquino's blood". thestar.com. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "Soulpepper Theatre - Plays, Concerts & Musicals". www.soulpepper.ca. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ kinnillyyc. "Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave – Tarragon Theatre". Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ "Nina Lee Aquino". Shaw Festival Theatre. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
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