BIO

Christine Brubaker is a director, actor, dramaturge and educator. She has worked across Canada on the small and large stages and specializes in new work and adaptation. Selected credits include director/dramaturg of the world premiere of The Horse and His Boy at the Shaw Festival; world premieres of Smoke (Downstage Theatre), Wilde Tales, (Shaw Festival), and Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille); and the Canadian workshop premiere of Suzanna Fournier’s antigone lives* (SCPA Calgary). She is a co-creator and performer in 7th Cousins: An Automythography that chronicles a 700km walk tracing the immigration route of her Mennonite ancestors from Pennsylvania to Ontario. 7th Cousins was published by book *hug press. Christine is the creative lead and writer of Henry G20, a contemporary adaptation of Henry V that speaks to global capitalism and the protest movement through an episodic PodPlay and Augmented Reality experience at the Luminato International Arts Festival. Christine is on faculty at University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts and splits her time between Alberta and Toronto. She is the winner of two Toronto Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Performance, the 2014 Gina Wilkinson Prize for Direction, and the 2016 Ken MacDougall Prize for Emerging Director. She is an alumnus of the National Theatre School’s Acting program and Michael Langham Program for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival.