Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at U of T

Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at U of T University of Toronto's St. George Campus Drama Program

Reminder: Alumni Performance Project Submissions Due October 13!The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (CDT...
09/23/2026

Reminder: Alumni Performance Project Submissions Due October 13!

The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (CDTPS) invites recent alumni to submit work for the Alumni Performance Project.

If you graduated from CDTPS as a Drama Specialist, Major, MA, or PhD student between 2021 and 2026, we encourage you to apply.

This initiative highlights the exciting creative work being produced by recent alumni and celebrates the breadth of artistic practice across our community.

📅 Submission deadline: October 1

For eligibility requirements and submission details, visit: https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/resources/alumni-performance-project

We look forward to seeing your work!

Photo from 2026 Alumni Show: 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks directed by CDTPS alum Teodora Djuric.

BMO Lab Open Studios | Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m.Interested in the intersection of performance, technology, and AI?The BMO Lab...
09/23/2026

BMO Lab Open Studios | Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m.

Interested in the intersection of performance, technology, and AI?
The BMO Lab will host Open Studios most Fridays this fall, offering informal, drop-in opportunities to learn about and experiment with the technologies and approaches being explored in the lab.

Topics include: • Interactive sensors for performance • Speaking Images and voice-generated visuals • Real-time motion capture • Responsive theatrical lighting • Improvising with large language models • Speech technologies • AI-assisted coding for the stage

Several sessions also include meetings of the Diagonal Reading Group exploring key texts on AI, media, and digital culture.

Open to anyone curious about emerging technologies and their impact on live performance and society.

Visit: cdtps.utoronto.ca/events/bmo-lab-open-studios

🎉 Please join us in congratulating Professor Barry Freeman on receiving a UTSC Teaching Award as part of the UTSC Awards...
09/22/2026

🎉 Please join us in congratulating Professor Barry Freeman on receiving a UTSC Teaching Award as part of the UTSC Awards of Excellence and Distinguished Service Awards.

The UTSC Teaching Awards honour teaching excellence and recognize sustained excellence in teaching, educational leadership and contributions to the teaching community.

This well-deserved recognition reflects Professor Freeman's outstanding commitment to student learning and his significant contributions to UTSC and the broader University of Toronto community.

Professor Freeman will be honoured at the UTSC Awards of Excellence and Distinguished Service Awards celebration on Sept. 22, 2026. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement! 👏

Call for Proposals | FOOT35: RootsThe Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT), now in its 35th year, invites proposals for i...
09/19/2026

Call for Proposals | FOOT35: Roots

The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT), now in its 35th year, invites proposals for its 2027 conference, FOOT35: Roots.

This year's theme explores the many meanings of roots: as sources of sustenance, histories, lineages, knowledge systems, and futures. As the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2026–27, we welcome reflections on the traditions, innovations, and connections that have shaped theatre and performance studies across generations.

We invite proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and roundtables that engage with the roots of ideas, practices and lineages in drama, theatre, and performance.

FOOT is committed to creating space for experimental and creative approaches to knowledge sharing. Research-creation, performance-based presentations, and innovative formats are encouraged.

📅 Conference Dates: January 28–29, 2027
📥 Submission Deadline: October 18, 2026

Please submit:
• A 250-word proposal
• A 100-word biography for each participant

For more information, visit: https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/conferences/foot35
Questions or accessibility requests? Email: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing your ideas and imagining new futures through the many roots of theatre and performance.

🌎 The CDTPS welcomed a delegation from the Graduate Institute of Gender Education at National Kaohsiung Normal Universit...
09/18/2026

🌎 The CDTPS welcomed a delegation from the Graduate Institute of Gender Education at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan.

The group, made up of university researchers, NGO leaders, graduate and undergraduate students, high school, middle school, elementary school health education teachers and guidance counsellors, HIV/AIDS counsellors, counselling psychologists, asexuality and non-binary content creators, Intersectionality researchers, and Gender and Equity Association leaders, met with CDTPS Director Kathleen Gallagher and KPE scholar Caroline Fusco for a conversation about equity, climate, education, theatre and sport.

The visit was especially meaningful, as CDTPS Director Gallagher first connected with members of Taiwan's Gender and Equity Association more than 20 years ago at OISE. The exchange of ideas and research collaboration has continued since that first meeting. CDTPS was very pleased to host the group and continue this international dialogue.

📚 Event Recap: Fifty Key Performance Artists Book LaunchThank you to everyone who joined us on Friday, September 11, for...
09/17/2026

📚 Event Recap: Fifty Key Performance Artists Book Launch

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday, September 11, for the launch of Fifty Key Performance Artists, co-edited by CDTPS Professor T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Adriana Disman.

Approximately 40 guests gathered for an afternoon reception and celebration of this significant new publication. Attendees enjoyed connecting with colleagues, students, artists, and community members before hearing a series of engaging readings from the book's artist contributors.

Fifty Key Performance Artists highlights influential and innovative performance artists from around the world whose work has shaped the field from the post-World War II era to the present. The collection brings deserved attention to artists whose contributions have often been overlooked in English-language scholarship, offering critical perspectives on performance art, activism, identity, and social change.

Congratulations to Nikki, Adriana, and all of the contributors on this remarkable achievement and on a wonderful event celebrating the book's release.

Photo 1: PhD Candidate Funmilola Cole with Adriana Disman
Photo 2: CDTPS Professor T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
Photo 3: CDTPS Professor T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Adriana Disman
Photo 4: Ilka Theurich on projection screen
Photo 5: Francisco-Fernando Granados
Photo 6: Rah Eleh
Photo 7: Paul Couillard

Join us this fall for the 2026 BMO Lab Lecture Series at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University...
09/09/2026

Join us this fall for the 2026 BMO Lab Lecture Series at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Toronto.

Bringing together internationally recognized scholars, artists and researchers, this year's lectures explore the intersections of theatre, performance, artificial intelligence, digital media, machine learning, choreography and creative practice.
📍 BMO Lab, University College (Laidlaw Wing, 2nd Floor)
📅 September 30, October 6, October 14, October 21

Featured events:
Sept. 30, 4:30-6 p.m. | Fabian Offert (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Of All Virtues Only One: Theatre after Artificial Intelligence

Oct. 6, 4:30-6 p.m. | Elizabeth Hunter (Washington University in St. Louis)
VISIBLE 1.0: Resurrecting a Nineteenth-century Moving Panorama with Mobile AR and GenAI

Oct. 14, 4:30-6 p.m. | Kenneth Collins (Temporary Distortion & University of Utah)
Human in the Loop

Oct. 21, 11am-1 p.m. | Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard (Le Principe d'Incertitude)
Artists Talk & Presentation

For more information, visit: https://bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca/

We look forward to welcoming you to the Lab this fall!

Images:
1. Event title slide
2. Fabian Offert
3. Concept image of a user “placing” the AR panorama. Design by Wenting Yu
4. AI Making Art (after Baldessari) by Kenneth Collins
5. Pierre Godard and Liz Santoro.

🎭 Auditions Open for the 2026 Directors' Showcase! 🎭The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies is seeking perfo...
09/03/2026

🎭 Auditions Open for the 2026 Directors' Showcase! 🎭

The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies is seeking performers for the 2026 Directors' Showcase, featuring scenes from Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, one of the most inventive and celebrated plays of contemporary theatre.

Exploring human connection, communication, memory, technology, and our increasingly information-saturated world, Love and Information unfolds through more than 50 short scenes filled with secrets, discoveries, obsessions, relationships and unexpected encounters.

Directed by DRM402: Advanced Directing students:
• Charles Ford
• Soroosh Kahnemuyipour
• Kenneth Petrie
• Angelina Zhou

📅 Saturday, September 12, 2026
⏰ 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
📍 Leonard Common Room, Morrison Hall, 75 St. George Street, Toronto

✅ Open to all current University of Toronto undergraduate and graduate students from any program and any campus
✅ No preparation required
✅ No previous acting experience necessary

We're looking for imaginative, collaborative performers who are excited to create bold ensemble-based theatre and be part of a welcoming artistic community.

🎟️ Register for auditions: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/UBeHUsnS9E
📧 Questions? Contact [email protected]

Performances run November 27-29, 2026 at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Break a leg! 🎭

🎭 Applications Open: 2027 Alumni Performance ProjectThe Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies invites recent a...
09/01/2026

🎭 Applications Open: 2027 Alumni Performance Project

The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies invites recent alumni to apply for the 2027 Alumni Performance Project — a unique opportunity to create, collaborate, and present original theatre work as you begin your professional artistic journey.

The project is open to alumni who completed a Drama Specialist, Major, MA, or PhD between June 2021 and June 2026.

📅 Application deadline: October 13, 2026, at 4:00 p.m.

Visit our website to learn more about the project, review eligibility requirements, and access the online application form:
🔗 cdtps.utoronto.ca/resources/alumni-performance-project

08/27/2026

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