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Theatre Local is proud to announce that Principal Artist and Studio manager Rebecca Singh has been named the 2013 Mallory Gilbert Award protege. This prestigious award celebrates and recognizes significant and valuable leadership within the Canadian Theatre community and is given by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres.
David Abel was the 2013 recipient of the award and chose Rebecca to be named the award Protege and share the cash prize. Mr. Abel is the Executive Director of the Art of Time Ensemble and was at Canadian Stage, Canada's third largest contemporary theatre for almost two decades. The award is named in honour of Mallory Gilbert (Order of Canada), Tarragon Theatre's General Manager for 34 years and former President of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT). Read the media release here.
"I am thrilled that my work with Theatre Local is being recognized in Canada. I want Canadians to know about innovations like Canada's Smallest Theatre and "Small Audiences" which presented an entire theatre season in just one night. I hope that this prestigious award from PACT will both stand as a recognition of the importance of pushing artistic boundaries and, empower the actions, big or small, of creative thinkers, actors and artists. I am grateful to David for choosing me as protege while interestingly, my practices and methodologies often seemed to run the complete opposite of his own, and I am grateful also to have met Mallory. I look forward to learning from her incredible experience as I tackle bigger and bolder art projects in the future." -Rebecca Singh
"Canada's Smallest Theatre" was awarded an Honourable Mention in the London International Creative Competition. Hendrik Scheel, Designer was surprised by the mention as we found out after the announcement that the committee had only received a small section of the submission, two or three pictures at most. That makes it an extra spacial honour. To see the full submission and more of Hendrik's world class work, click here.
Photo: Rebecca Singh, David Abel and Mallory Gilbert. ©2013
2013-06-09
Toronto: Theatre Local’s Rebecca Singh receives award