2023 Lab
Directors Lab North’s 2023 Lab was held from June 12 – 18, 2023.
This year we created both an in-person lab and an online version, which allowed us to include many more international labbies into the program.
Lab Topics
Masterclasses
with Philip Aiken and ted witzel
Shared Sessions
Moving Forward
A Consent-Based Approach to Directing
Personal Cosmography
Weaving the Mythopoeic Self into the Fabric of Creation
Story Recreation
Tablework
Physical Work
Conceptual Containers
Playwright/
Actor Sessions
Leo
by Rosa Laborde
Lab Participants
Mariló Núñez
Alec Toller
Taylor Graham
Mandy Roveda
Alan Kinsella
Andrea Donaldson
Jill Carter
Alex Fallis
Janet Kish
Jay Northcott
Ciarán Myers
Milton Lim
Katia Café-Fébrissy
Jessie Fraser
Logan Gabrielle Schulman
Zoe Erwin Longstaff
Zita Nyarady
Brendan McMurtry-Howlett
Tyler Seguin
Erin Brandenburg
Rosa Laborde
Emily Rollie
Kristen van Ginhoven
Mandy Roveda
Gabrielle Metcalf
Valerie Planche
Chang Nai Wen
Madeleine Regina
Larisse Campbell
Bo Powell
DS Magid
Michele Hawkins-Jones
Heather Davies
Jill Carter
Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Rios (MAFER)
Brenda McLean
Robert A. K. Gonyo
Annie Levy
Nicola Murphy
Christopher Jackman
Fiely Matias
Barbara Tomasic
Dawn Naser
Evan Cummings
Akia Squitieri
Stage Manager
Senjuti Sarker
DLN is grateful to its supporters
Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for generously funding the lab. Thanks to the Tarragon Theatre for providing us space and support and to the Luminato Festival for supporting us and providing tickets for the labbies to Treemonisha.