Ontario's Best Lecturer 4 (2009) winner is Rod Carley!

2009 | Communication Arts - Canadore College | Rod Carley is Coordinator for Canadore College's new Theatre Arts Program in North Bay as well as Artistic Director for REP 21, Canadore's graduate actor theatre company. Most recently he directed the Canadian premiere of Robin Soans' Talking to Terrorists. He has directed and produced over 85 productions to date, both nationally and internationally, ranging from the classics to the development of new Canadian work. He spent two seasons with the Stratford Festival as an Assistant Director and was the first recipient of the Festival's Jean Gascon Director's Award; he also received a Tyrone Guthrie Award. He was nominated for the first John Hirsch Director's Award in 1993 and, in 1997, was short-listed for the Pauline McGibbon Award for his body of work to date.

Rod has a particular passion for the works of Shakespeare, having adapted and directed fifteen of his works (Guelph University has created the "Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project" website on which Rod's adaptations are featured at:www.canadianshakespeares.ca). Rod's adaptation and direction of The Othello Project earned him a 1996 DORA Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction as well as a 1998 Carbonnell Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction (Florida Shakespeare Festival, Miami).

As an instructor, Rod has been a sessional professor with Nipissing University for the past nine years, a Guest Artist with the University of Windsor (four years), George Brown Theatre School (three years), and has taught workshops for the Stratford Festival, Equity Showcase, Artsperience, Theatre Ontario, and school boards throughout the province. He has been a provincial adjudicator for the past twelve years.

 Professor Rod Carley's profile.

 Professor Rod Carley's competition lecture.

 Professor Rod Carley's submission lecture.

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