Weyni Mengesha is the Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company and an award-winning director known for her ground-breaking work and community engagement. For her contribution, Weyni Mengesha receives the Gascon-Thomas award for Innovation!

First-year students in Production Design and Technical Arts begin their NTS journey with a week of intensive bootcamp. We asked David Jodoin, technical director of the Monument-National, to talk to us about the course that he’s been teaching since 2009.

JoJo Rideout, voice and acting teacher, and Laurel Thomson, Head of Voice at NTS, head north to teach a group of 15 artists in voice-body connection at Qaggiq School of Performing Arts in Iqaluit.

''For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.''

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

''If theatre is to remain a vital form, if it is to be the tool our communities use to deal with our most complex problems, we have to find a way to sustain the energy these young artists produce and let it fill our professional spaces.''

Jimmy Blais (Indigenous Artist in Residence, 2019, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Montreal, QC) is an actor, has trained as an actor and works as an actor. But is it all that he is? Read his thought on how people have multiple facets and how this can open doors to many opportunities.