Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Ross, Nadia
Nadia Ross is the founder (1992) and artistic director of STO Union (stounion.com), a company based in Wakefield, Quebec dedicated to the creation of multi-disciplinary works inspired by performance, live art, and theatre. She has chosen to create her work on the periphery, engaging in new forms of cooperation in small communities. She lives on unceded Algonquin land in a small Anglophone minority community in the Outaouais in Quebec, where she was raised. This location has influenced every aspect of her practice.
Ross is the 2016 recipient of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, Canada’s largest theatre prize. She is also the co-winner of L’association Québécoise des critiques de theatre (AQCT) “Meilleur text original” with Christian Lapointe in 2019 for P.O.R.N. (Portrait of Restless Narcissism); the Contra-Guy Award with co-writer George Acheson in 2013 for 7 Important Things; and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award with co-writer Diane Cave in 1995 for The Alistair Trilogy.
Recognized by the Siminovitch jury for her fierce vision, Ross’ projects consistently challenge what is a stage, who and what is on it and why. Some projects have long lives and have found audiences world-wide, while others are ephemeral and local by design. Ross is not an artist easily defined.
Her projects have been presented at venues and festivals in Canada and across the touring world, including at: FTA, Festival TransAmériques/Festival du Monde (Montreal, Quebec); HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, Germany); The Meteor Festival, Theatre Garasjen (Bergen, Norway); brut Wien (Vienna, Austria): The National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada): The Theatre Centre (Toronto, Ontario); PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver, British Columbia).
Important Works
- 2022-23: AI Rituals, Live Art community engagement and a co-production with UKAI Projects and HAU Hebbel am Ufer
- 2020-2022: OUT LOUD, video and community engagement
- 2022-23: Empty Stage Drawing, video and community engagement
- 2022: Wakefield OUT LOUD and HAU OUT LOUD: live art, videos, performance, theatre and audience engagement
- 2021-23: The River Project, a year of colouring, community engagement project, exhibit and video
- 2018-2020: P.O.R.N. (Portrait of Restless Narcissism) theatre created in collaboration with Christian Lapointe
- 2014-15: What Happened to the Seeker, exhibit, videos, performance and theatre
- 2014: Good News from the Sun, puppet video
- 2013-14: Good News from the Sun, theatre
- 2012-13: Intimacy with a Thousand Things, video and performance
- 2012: Virtual Bar Buddies, video and community engagement
- 2010-2012: The Epiphany Process, play and community engagement
- 2007-2015: 7 Important Things, theatre created with George Acheson
- 2003-2006: Revolutions in Therapy, theatre created in collaboration with Tracy Wright and Jacob Wren
- 2000-2006: Recent Experiences, theatre created in collaboration with Jacob Wren
- 1995: Excerpts from the Emo Journals, theatre created in collaboration with Daniel MacIvor
- 1994: The Alistair Trilogy, theatre created in collaboration with Diane Cave
Last updated 2023-07-23
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