Nina Lee Aquino is a Filipino-Canadian theatre director who was the founding artistic director of Toronto's fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.

Career

In 2012 she was appointed artistic director of Toronto's

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. After a ten-year tenure at Factory, she was named artistic director of English Theatre at Canada's

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in Ottawa, Ontario. Aquino is credited with a string of firsts in Asian Canadian theatre: she organized the first Asian Canadian theatre conference; she edited the first Asian Canadian play anthology, and she co-edited the first book on Asian Canadian theatre. She also currently serves as the president of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT). Aquino has won three

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awards and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award. Over the last decade, Aquino has directed multiple seminal Canadian productions at major Canadian theatre companies including

Soulpepper Theatre Soulpepper is a theater company based in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest non-profit theater in the city. History Soulpepper was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists aiming to produce lesser-known theatrical classics. Soulpepper has sinc ...

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, and the

Shaw Festival The Shaw Festival is a not-for-profit theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest repertory theatre company in North America. The Shaw Festival was founded in 1962. Originally, it only featured production ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aquino, Nina Lee Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian people of Filipino descent Canadian theatre directors Canadian women theatre directors