Faculty

ROSS STUART

BFA (Alberta), MFA (Carnegie-Mellon), PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professor: Theatre Studies
Department of Theatre, York University

rstuart@yorku.ca

Professor Stuart, founding associate editor of the Canadian Theatre Review, is a theatre historian and author whose research interests include musical theatre and Canadian and Ontario theatre history, particularly the history of the Stratford Festival. He has published extensively on Canadian theatre, most recently in the Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, Later Stages, a history of theatre in Ontario and Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism.

Ross Stuart also has extensive experience in theatre production, performance and directing. He has directed professionally in summer theatre, and has adjudicated at festivals throughout Ontario. In past few years, he has adapted a number of classic plays and novels for the contemporary stage, particularly for educational theatre. Among his recent productions have been Shakespeare's Pericle, Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Louisa May Alcott's almost unknown Comic Tragedies, and Funny Uncle, a revue combining the adult and children's writings of Shel Silverman.