Jillian Keiley

Jillian Keiley is a Canadian theatre director, who has been artistic director of English theatre at the Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa since 2012.[1]

A graduate of York University and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Memorial University,[2] Keiley is originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador,[1] where she previously founded her own theatre company, Artistic Fraud.[1] Plays produced by Artistic Fraud under Keiley's leadership included her own In Your Dreams, Freud, Ron James' Up and Down in Shakey Town and Robert Chafe's Lemons, Afterimage, Oil And Water and Under Wraps.[3]

She was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2004;[2] she previously won the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Emerging Artist of the Year award in 1996 and the Canada Council's John Hirsch Prize in 1998.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Q&A: Jillian Keiley, National Arts Centre’s incoming artistic director". National Post, March 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Jillian Keiley wins Siminovitch Prize". The Globe and Mail, October 26, 2004.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Artistic Fraud. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, 2000.