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Deborah Pearson
Deborah Pearson is a British, Hungarian and Canadian live artist, playwright, director, performer and curator based in London, U.K. and born in Toronto, Canada. She holds a practice-based PhD in narrative in contemporary performance from Royal Holloway, University of London, where she was a Reid Scholar. Her dissertation was supervised by playwright Dan Rebellato. Biography Her work has been performed on five continents and in over twenty countries, and translated into six languages. Her pieces and collaborations have been shown in a variety of contexts including visual art galleries the Tate Exchange, Brussels Nuit Blanche, Somerset House and the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, theatres including the Royal Court in London, Teatro Nacional Donna Maria II in Lisbon and Théâtre Garonne in France, and film festivals including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham and the Vancouver International Film Festival. Her work is frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Rebellato
Dan Rebellato (born 1968) is an English dramatist and academic born in South London. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London and has written extensively for radio and the stage. He has twice been nominated for a Sony Award, and writes regularly for ''The Guardian'' Theatre Blog. Stage plays *''Chekhov in Hell''. 4–20 November 2010 at the Drum at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, before transferring to the Soho Theatre, London 20 April-14 May 2011 *''Beachy Head''. Written with Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington. Analogue: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009; National Tour, 2011. *''Static''. 22 April-10 May 2008 at the Soho Theatre, London *''Theatremorphosis''. Part of the CCA Glasgow's Stage Fright event 4 April-23 May 2009. *''Mile End''. Analogue: Edinburgh Festival, 2007. International tour, 2007. Southwark Playhouse, 2008. *''Here's What I Did With My Body One Day''. Lightwork: Pleasance Theatre, London. National Tour, 2006. Radio pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed its present name in 1850 upon becoming a secular institution. As a collegiate university, it comprises eleven colleges each with substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs and significant differences in character and history. The university maintains three campuses, the oldest of which, St. George, is located in downtown Toronto. The other two satellite campuses are located in Scarborough and Mississauga. The University of Toronto offers over 700 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs. In all major rankings, the university consistently ranks in the top ten public universities in the world and as the top university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Births
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Writers From Toronto
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the communication of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Women Dramatists And Playwrights
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Pongrácz(aktoro)
Imre is a Hungarian masculine first name, which is also in Estonian use, where the corresponding name day is 10 April. It has been suggested that it relates to the name Emeric, Emmerich or Heinrich. Its English equivalents are Emery and Henry. Bearers of the name include the following (who generally held Hungarian nationality, unless otherwise noted): *Imre Antal (1935–2008), pianist *Imre Bajor (1957–2014), actor * Imre Bebek (d. 1395), baron *Imre Bródy (1891–1944), physicist *Imre Bujdosó (b. 1959), Olympic fencer *Imre Csáky (cardinal) (1672–1732), Roman Catholic cardinal *Imre Csermelyi (b. 1988), football player *Imre Cseszneky (1804–1874), agriculturist and patriot *Imre Csiszár (b. 1938), mathematician *Imre Csösz (b. 1969), Olympic judoka *Imre Czobor (1520–1581), Noble and statesman *Imre Czomba (b. 1972), Composer and musician *Imre Deme (b. 1983), football player *Imre Erdődy (1889–1973), Olympic gymnast * Imre Farkas (1879–1976), musician * Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Arsenault
Nina Arsenault (born January 20, 1974) is a Canadian performance artist, freelance writer, and former sex worker who works in theatre, dance, video, photography and visual art. Early life Arsenault grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario. She has two master's degrees. At one point prior to her transition, Arsenault was an instructor at York University, where she taught acting. She has said she realized that she was a trans woman in August 1996 and her transition was in full force around 1998. By 2007 she had undergone over $150,000 in surgery during her transition, financed through work in the sex trade as a web cam girl, a stripper and a self-described "hooker erforming oral sex only. Career Arsenault wrote a regular column on transgender issues for 36 issues of ''fab'', a biweekly Toronto-based LGBT magazine. Her last column was in early 2007. She has appeared on the television series ''Train 48'' and ''KinK'', as well as the Showtime movie ''Soldier's Girl''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladstone Hotel (Toronto)
The Gladstone House is a hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1889 and named after Gladstone Avenue, next to the hotel. The Parkdale area hotel was designed by local architect George Martell Miller in the Romanesque Revival style. The Gladstone House is one of the oldest hotel buildings still operating as a hotel in Toronto. Since renovations in the early 2000s, the hotel has become an arts hub in the West Queen West neighbourhood of Toronto. In June 1973, the City of Toronto assigned a Part IV historical designation to the property. Architecture The hotel was designed by George Martell Miller, the architect of the Lillian Massey building of the University of Toronto, many other public buildings in the city, as well as a large number of grand residential buildings in the Parkdale neighbourhood. The building permit was issued in September 1889 for a value of . The hotel was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style - in the period a popular style for public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kingwell
Mark Gerald Kingwell (born March 1, 1963) is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College. He specialises in theories of politics and culture. Kingwell has published twenty books, most notably, ''A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism,'' which was awarded the Spitz Prize for political theory in 1997. In 2000 Kingwell received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, for contributions to theory and criticism. He has held visiting posts at institutions including: University of Cambridge, University of California at Berkeley, and City University of New York where he held the title of Weissman Distinguished Professor of Humanities. He studied at the University of Toronto, editing '' The Varsity'' through 1983 to 1984 and the ''University of Toronto Review'' from 84-85. He received his BA degree from St. Michael' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book '' The Trouble with Physics'' criticized string theory as a viable scientific theory. He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, can be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. He also advocates an alternative view on space and time he calls temporal naturalism. His research interests also include cosmology, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyni Mengesha
Weyni Mengesha is a Canadian film and theatre director, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is known as the director of the plays ''da kink in my hair'', and ''Kim's Convenience''. Mengesha married American actor Eion Bailey in 2011. The couple have two children. In 2018, she was hired as the artistic director of the Soulpepper Theatre. Observers applauded her appointment, and that of her colleague, executive director Emma Stenning, as it meant the two senior posts at the theatre would be filled by women, after the previous male director Albert Schultz resigned after actors accused him of preying on female subordinates. Mengesha's parents were immigrants from Ethiopia. She is the cousin of actor Araya Mengesha. While she was born in Vancouver, Mengesha grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. She graduated from Soulpepper Academy. Mengesha has been nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award five times, winning the award in 2014. Mengesha co-signed a letter of support to the Black Lives M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
