Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
The Centre is a major centre of advanced research in theatre, drama and performance studies in Canada, with a strong reputation throughout the world. Graduates teach in universities across Canada and abroad, while others have become playwrights, critics, stage directors, dramaturgs and arts administrators. The Centre has been a major source of campus theatrical activity since its inception, through its past involvement with Hart House Theatre and current operation of the Gill and Studio Theatres, and has been responsible for the first Canadian productions of numerous plays, including original texts by Centre students.
University College Drama Program
Since the 1970s, the University College Drama Program has been known for its highly accomplished, committed, versatile, and dedicated faculty and for its talented, creative, and enthusiastic students who gain entry to and progress in the program via a rigorous audition process. Grounded in a serious commitment to the lasting value of liberal arts education for 21st century undergraduates, UC Drama offers students broad, diverse, well-integrated, and intercultural opportunities for intellectual, social and creative growth.
University of Toronto Graduate Student Union
Centre for Urban Schooling (OISE)
The Centre for Urban Schooling (CUS) is dedicated to improving the quality of the teaching and learning experiences available to children and youth living in underserved urban communities. Established in 2005, at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, CUS carries out academic and contracted research, offers educational programs and professional development opportunities, and supports students, teachers, schools, parents and district boards in the development of school reform initiatives that have a clear focus on equity for all students.
Playwrights Guild of Canada is a registered national arts service association mandated to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage. Scripted For Schools is a special initiative of Playwrights Guild of Canada. The aim of this project is to speak to the relevancy of the arts, increase public/school access to and presence of Canadian plays, and demonstrate how plays/scripts/dramatic role play can be used as a learning device. Theatre and other forms of art have a great impact on youth and can be used to develop literacy skills, communication skills and allow students to explore topics about social issues in a non-traditional way.
Young People’s Theatre (formerly Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) is the largest Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) company in Canada and a significant institution in the Canadian professional theatre community.
