In keeping with its mission to provide incomparable theatre training delivered from artist to artist, NTS will provide 12 online training programs covering all the theatre disciplines. Professional actors, directors, designers, composers and theatre makers, artists who are part of the teaching team at NTS, will offer free online classes available to all artists, to support the deepening of their craft during this time of isolation. This is another way to continue sharing knowledge and having a dialogue among artists across Canada. “We have a responsibility to constantly interrogate ourselves on how best to meet the needs of our community,” says Alisa Palmer, Artistic Director of the English section. “In the current context, it’s more important than ever to foster a sense of community and to provide creative work opportunities for artists.”

Here are the teaching artists who will be leading conferences, conversations and classes online in the coming weeks:

• May 19-26, June 2: Introduction to Poetry for Actors (3 classes) with Dany Boudreault; 
  
  
• May 20: Conversation with François Vincent;
  
  
• May 21, June 4 and 18: Writing for Young Audiences with Dean Patrick Fleming;
  
  
• May 25: Stand Back! Physical Distance and Fashion: from Panniers to Punks to Pool Noodles - A brief history of "physical distancing" inspired clothing with Tamara Marie Kucheran;
  
  
• May 27: Peripheries: The Hidden Considerations of Sound in Theatre with Debashis Sinha;

• June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and July 6: Brewing ideas on scenic space : the director’s prep up to meeting the set designer with Arianna Bardesono; 

• June 2: Réflexion, Réflexion with Caroline Ferland et Julie Marie Bourgeois;
  
  
• June 3: Brenda Bazinet and Erin Brubacher in Conversation;
  
  
• June 10: La mise en livre with Daniel Canty (1st interview);
  
  
• June 8, 11, 15, 18, 22 and 25: Becoming a Better Actor Through Chekhov - Discovering the Inner Life of Your Character with Brenda Bazinet;
  
  
• June 11: Podcasts with Xavier Huard.
  
  
• June 16: L’assistance à la mise en scène, pivot de la production with Marie-Hélène Dufort, Suzanne Crocker et Jean Gaudreau;
  
  
• June 17: Le théâtre des éloignements with Daniel Canty (second interview);