Our mentorship programs allow arts professionals of all types and ages to take their creative career to the next level.
Our Mentorship Spotlights serve to highlight and celebrate the work and successes of creatives who have participated in our Mentorship programs. We want to hear about the ups and downs, the setbacks and achievements, and all you’ve experienced during your partnership.
If you’re interested in talking about your experience in one of our mentorship programs, please contact your mentorship partner and fill out our form. Spotlights are selected based on completeness and recent participants are given preference.
If these spotlights have inspired you to try out mentorship for yourself, check out the profiles of Manitoban artists that have expressed interest in being a mentor.
Hope McIntyre is an award winning playwright and director. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film and also teaches through the Walls to Bridges program in correctional centres. Her training includes a BFA in performance from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA in directing from the University of Victoria. She was the founding Artistic Director of Sarasvàti Productions, a company dedicated to social change that she helmed for 22 years. During this tenure she developed multiple new theatrical works, produced FemFest (an annual festival), worked as a dramaturg for emerging playwrights, and developed community-based play creation methods.
Hope is former Chair of The Women’s Caucus and former President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She has received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Bra D’Or, the Women Helping Women Award, the Mahatma Gandhi Social Change Award, and the University of Winnipeg Arts Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2023 she published the e-book The Business of Theatre: Pathways to a Career in Theatre.