Discipline Category: Live Performing Arts
Aug
18
Goblin:Macbeth
When three goblins come across a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, they decide to take over the stage, choosing the bloodiest play they can find: Macbeth. Blending […]
Aug
18
fareWel
There’s a cry for change on Partridge Crop Reserve. The welfare cheques are late – if they’re coming at all – the Chief is pushing his luck in Vegas (again) […]
Aug
18
Waiting for Godot
Is it possible that two seemingly homeless men represent all of humanity as they wait for someone – or something – to give their lives meaning? As Vladimir and Estragon […]
Aug
18
My Name is Lucy Barton
If you were stuck in a hospital bed for nine weeks, where would your mind go? After complications to a routine surgery, Lucy wakes up to find an unexpected visitor […]
Aug
18
Intrepid
An action-packed spy thriller recounting one of Winnipeg’s greatest heroes, William Stephenson, who became Churchill’s spymaster and the inspiration for James Bond. It’s 1940 and the fate of the free […]
Aug
18
Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™
Literally leaping from the pages of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s cherished novel, this gorgeous musical shares the heartwarming coming-of-age story of a gregarious orphan from Prince Edward Island. When loyal siblings […]
Hope McIntyre 
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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.