Aida Jordão | |
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Born | Lisbon, Portugal |
Education | University of Toronto (PhD) |
Notable works | This is For You, Anna |
Aida Jordão is a Portuguese-Canadian playwright, theatre director, and academic. She is a co-founder of the feminist theatre group, Company of Sirens, and she co-created This is For You, Anna, a germinal Canadian feminist theatre play.
Jordão was born in Lisbon, Portugal. At age 9, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada. [1] She has a PhD from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation was titled, " Ines de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen." [2]
Jordão is sometimes credited as a member of the Anna Collective, a group of women who co-created the play, This is For You, Anna, for Nightwood Theatre. [3] As Jordão left the collective before the play's completion to work as an actor in Portugal, [4] the play is most consistently credited to Suzanne Odette Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Baņuta Rubess, and Maureen White. [5] In 1986, Jordão co-founded the feminist theatre group Company of Sirens with Lina Chartrand, Catherine Glen, Lib Spry, Shawna Dempsey, and Cynthia Grant. [6] As part of Company of Sirens, Jordão co-created the group's most popular play, The Working People's Picture Show. [7] [8]
In 1991, her bilingual Portuguese/English play, Funeral in White, premiered with Company of Sirens. Twenty-two years later, it was published by Fidalgo Books. [9] Mary The Slasher, a play Jordão co-wrote with Rebecca Burton, premiered at the second Hysteria Festival, co-presented by Nightwood Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times. [10] At Nightwood Theatre's 22nd Groundswell Festival in August 2005, Jordão's play about a woman who had been a communist leader in the Spanish civil war, Las Pasionarias, premiered. [11] In 2006, Jordäo worked on the puppet play Camoes, the One-Eyed Poet of Portugal about the Portuguese poet, Luís de Camões. [12] The play was co-created with David Anderson, Nuno Cristo, Mark Keetch, and Larry Lewis. [13]
Jordão works as a sessional lecturer in the Spanish and Portuguese departments of the University of Toronto and York University. [14]
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Aida Jordão | |
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Born | Lisbon, Portugal |
Education | University of Toronto (PhD) |
Notable works | This is For You, Anna |
Aida Jordão is a Portuguese-Canadian playwright, theatre director, and academic. She is a co-founder of the feminist theatre group, Company of Sirens, and she co-created This is For You, Anna, a germinal Canadian feminist theatre play.
Jordão was born in Lisbon, Portugal. At age 9, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada. [1] She has a PhD from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation was titled, " Ines de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen." [2]
Jordão is sometimes credited as a member of the Anna Collective, a group of women who co-created the play, This is For You, Anna, for Nightwood Theatre. [3] As Jordão left the collective before the play's completion to work as an actor in Portugal, [4] the play is most consistently credited to Suzanne Odette Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Baņuta Rubess, and Maureen White. [5] In 1986, Jordão co-founded the feminist theatre group Company of Sirens with Lina Chartrand, Catherine Glen, Lib Spry, Shawna Dempsey, and Cynthia Grant. [6] As part of Company of Sirens, Jordão co-created the group's most popular play, The Working People's Picture Show. [7] [8]
In 1991, her bilingual Portuguese/English play, Funeral in White, premiered with Company of Sirens. Twenty-two years later, it was published by Fidalgo Books. [9] Mary The Slasher, a play Jordão co-wrote with Rebecca Burton, premiered at the second Hysteria Festival, co-presented by Nightwood Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times. [10] At Nightwood Theatre's 22nd Groundswell Festival in August 2005, Jordão's play about a woman who had been a communist leader in the Spanish civil war, Las Pasionarias, premiered. [11] In 2006, Jordäo worked on the puppet play Camoes, the One-Eyed Poet of Portugal about the Portuguese poet, Luís de Camões. [12] The play was co-created with David Anderson, Nuno Cristo, Mark Keetch, and Larry Lewis. [13]
Jordão works as a sessional lecturer in the Spanish and Portuguese departments of the University of Toronto and York University. [14]
Plays: