Please RSVP for our Annual Meeting

Theatre Ontario invites our members to join us at our Annual General Meeting on May 26 at 1pm at the Robert Gill Theatre in Toronto.  We are pleased to welcome Autumn Smith as our keynote speaker at the meeting.  RSVPs are requested.

Autumn Smith is the Artistic Director and co-founder of MackenzieRo: The Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada, and her work reflects involvement in all three sectors of Theatre Ontario’s mandate—professional, community and educational—and in the diversity and connections between the sectors.  She is a past intern director in the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival, and has served as an adjudicator for the Association of Community Theatres—Central Ontario and the Sears Ontario Drama Festival.  As an educator, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre, the Stratford-National Ballet Project, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada Shakespeare School, Equity Showcase Theatre, and is a featured artist with ART SMARTS, and Stagedoor Manor, an international training centre partnered with The American Theatre Wing.  Recent projects include an international workshop of the new Canadian work The Rake’s Progress: Do You Know Where Tom Rakewell Is? and directing for the double-bill/co-pro between Obsidian Theatre and MacKenzieRo; upcoming for her will be Bloodless for Theatre 20/Mirvish Productions.

We will also be welcoming Steve Beatty and Michael Kelly of Culture One / Mainway Hunter Critchton to make an important presentation on the innovative Arts Worker Health Insurance Program they have developed known as aWHIP.

Following the meeting, we will have an informal networking reception with light refreshments.

Theatre Ontario’s Annual General Meeting is on May 26 at 1pm at the Robert Gill Theatre (University of Toronto) located at 214 College Street, Toronto (the northwest corner of College and St. George Streets.)  The main entrance for the theatre is via St. George Street.  An underground parking lot can be found on the east side of Huron Street, north of College Street.

To RSVP, please email info@theatreontario.org with AGM in the subject line.  Remember you will also be able to follow along through our Annual Meeting Live Blog, but if you are unable to attend and wish to vote, you may submit a written proxy.  Proxy ballots must be received by 5pm on Friday May 25, 2012.  All Annual Meeting documents (including the annual report, the financial statements, the agenda, and the minutes of previous meetings) are available to members on the Theatre Ontario website.