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

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, and the

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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