Nina Lee Aquino

Nina Lee Aquino is a Filipino-Canadian theatre director who was the founding artistic director of Toronto's fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.

Career

In 2012 she was appointed artistic director of Factory Theatre.[1] After a ten-year tenure at Factory, she was named artistic director of English Theatre at Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.[2] Aquino is credited with a string of firsts in Asian Canadian theatre: she organized the first Asian Canadian theatre conference; she edited the first Asian Canadian play anthology, and she co-edited the first book on Asian Canadian theatre.[3] She also currently serves as the president of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT).[4] Aquino has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award.[5]

References
  1. "Filipino Canadian Nina Lee Aquino appointed artistic director of NAC English Theatre". CBC. January 6, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  2. "Nina Lee Aquino | Biographies". nac-cna.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  3. "Nina Lee Aquino | Playwrights Canada Press". www.playwrightscanada.com. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  4. "PACT / Board of Directors". www.pact.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  5. "From a line of Filipino revolutionaries, leadership is in Nina Lee Aquino's blood". thestar.com. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
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