Nightswimming Theatre

We are accepting OAC Theatre Creators’ Reserve applications!

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:29:45 +0000

Nightswimming is participating in the Theatre Creators Reserve Program funded by the Ontario Arts Council. We are accepting applications until December 1, 2012. Nightswimming is particularly pleased that “creators working in forms other than text” are eligible to apply and we are eager to review applications from creators working in those fields.

If you’re interested in challenging dramatic forms and bold visual storytelling, explore our website for more information about our theatrical interests and ideas. Please review our current and past projects to get a sense of our work. Here are the questions we’ll be asking when we review the applications:

Does the project intersect with at least two of Nightswimming’s artistic interests?

These include:

- diversity of storytelling – geographic and/or cultural
- poetic dramatic text
- dance and extreme physicality
- exploration of dramatic forms – stretching dramaturgical boundaries
- integration of music, especially vocal music

Does this application establish a new relationship for Nightswimming, or extend an existing relationship in a new direction?

We will focus on the following:
- the clarity of the applicant’s intent regarding the project
- the clarity of the process of creation
- is the project something the artist would be unable to pursue without this funding?

If you have a project that you think would fit with Nightswimming’s mandate and interests, please send us your application by December 1, 2012. We look forward to reading it.

Please keep applications to three pages; a short script sample is sufficient as we are more interested in the nature of the ideas you want to explore than reading your past work.

Applications can only be submitted by e-mail to rupal@nightswimmingtheatre.com

Anita Majumdar at TIFF 2012!

admin — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:28:04 +0000

Nightswimming playwright Anita Majumdar is the sole Canadian actress featured in Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, premiering at TIFF on September 9th!

The film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Midnight’s Children is one of the most anticipated presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The film has a gala premiere on September 9th and opens across North America on November 2nd.

To see a clip from the film, featuring Anita, click here.

Pure Research Toronto Returns!

admin — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:32:42 +0000

Nightswimming is pleased to announce that we are returning to Pure Research this October in Toronto, welcoming Christine Brubaker, an actor/director/educator/musician and actor/singer Derek Kwan to the Pure Research experience.

This past June, we conducted Pure Research Vancouver at SFU Contemporary Arts with multidisciplinary performer Nita Bowerman and Gail Lotenberg, the Artistic Director of Link Dance.

Both Nita and Gail are busy working on their final reports, which will be available on our website this fall. In the meantime, you can still read the reports from all our past Pure Research projects!

Pure Research Vancouver starts now!

admin — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:48:24 +0000

Greetings from Vancouver! Brian, Rupal and Rachel are currently here at SFU’s beautiful Woodward’s facility, starting the Vancouver branch of Pure Research with D.D. Kugler and the students of SFU Contemporary Arts. Our lead researchers this session are multi-disciplinary performer Nita Bowerman and Gail Lotenberg, the Artistic Director of LINK Dance.

Blue Box at Panamerican Routes in Toronto

admin — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:32:47 +0000

Carmen Aguirre’s Blue Box opened to a large and enthusiastic crowd at Aluna Theatre’s Panamerican Routes Festival on May 22nd in Toronto! For information on how to book tickets to see Carmen in Toronto, click here.

Blue Box at GCTC in 2013

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:05:37 +0000

Nightswimming is thrilled to announce that Carmen Aguirre’s Blue Box will be part of GCTC’s 2012/13 season!

We return to GCTC with the full production of Carmen’s smash hit from the 2012 undercurrents festival. Blue Box investigates Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life as an underground revolutionary in Chile. It’s a story of terror, romance, and abandon that takes us from the dangerous mountain passes of Chile to the perilous roller coasters of Hollywood; from an ardent love affair with a TV star, to a passionate love for a revolution that strove to change an entire nation.

Carmen’s memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, won the 2012 CBC Canada Reads competition.

Rupal Shah announced as new Producer

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:23:16 +0000

June 2010 – Nightswimming is proud to welcome Toronto’s Rupal Shah to her new position, having served as Associate Producer for the past two years. Rupal will focus her initial months on taking the reigns from departing producer Naomi Campbell, developing an expanded and re-imagined website, adding new promotional initiatives to our activities and overseeing a substantial roster of new works in development, including a renewal of Nightswimming’s Pure Research program.

Welcome Rupal! Contact her at: rupal@nightswimmingtheatre.com

Naomi Campbell leaving as Producer of Nightswimming

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:16:01 +0000

May 19, 2010 – Nightswimming announced today that Producer Naomi Campbell, who has been with the company since it was established in 1994, will leave her current position on July 31.

“Naomi has been with Nightswimming since our very first project, Don Druick’s award-winning Through the Eyes, and has been instrumental in defining the nature of the company, and ensuring the successful development of all its artistic projects,” said Artistic Director Brian Quirt.

Naomi has raised Nightswimming’s profile nationally and internationally,” said Nightswimming Board President, Terry Raininger. Nightswimming wishes Naomi every success in her future endeavours. “Naomi has been a full partner in the creation, growth and success of Nightswimming,” said Brian. “Her insight, knowledge of the Canadian theatre world, and her producing acumen will be greatly missed.”

Naomi receives leadership award at PACT

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:20:17 +0000

May 27, 2010 – PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres) and Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre presented the 4th annual Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award to Naomi Campbell at the PACT AGM in Cow Head, Newfoundland. The Award includes a portion presented to a protege chosen by the award winner, underlining the importance of skills and knowledge transmission in leadership building. Naomi selected as her protege, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, a Toronto-based emcee, administrator and award-winning playwright. For more information: www.pact.ca

Dora Nominations for Such Creatures

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:19:37 +0000

June 2010 – The premiere production of Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures produced by Theatre Passe Muraille – January 14 to February 6, 2010 – was nominated for the Outstanding Play of the Year at the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Awards in Toronto. Also receiving a nomination was Michaela Washburn for her performance in the role of Blandy. Opening to excellent reviews in the Globe and Mail and NOW Magazine, Such Creatures had an great run and will be published later this year. For more information or to request a copy, contact Artistic Director Brian Quirt.

Featuring Maria Vacratsis and Michaela Washburn, with production design by Beth Kates and directed by Brian Quirt, Such Creatures is a beautiful and demanding addition to Judith’s body of work. Two deeply-linked monologues show us the astonishing courage and resilience of young human beings during earth shattering moments.

Each piece introduces us to a fifteen-year-old girl: the first speaks to us from contemporary Toronto, and the second from Auschwitz, 1945. Thanks to their shared love of Shakespeare, each girl believes in miracles when there is almost no hope and humour when there is nothing but fear.

Nightswimming and Theatre Passe Muraille were excited to welcome Judith back to TPM 30 years after her first work, The Crackwalker, burst onto its Backspace stage.