Katrina Dunn

• THTR 1220 - Introduction to Theatre
• THTR 2150 - Theatrical Techniques: Onstage
• THTR 2600 / ENGL 2900 - Canadian Theatre

Katrina has an extensive background as a professional stage director, producer and dramaturg in Canadian theatre. She was the Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Touchstone Theatre for nineteen years and co-founded the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

• PhD (Theatre Studies), University of British Columbia, 2020
• MA (Theatre Studies), University of British Columbia, 2016
• BFA (Theatre), Simon Fraser University, 2010

Research interests

• Research interests
• Theatrical space
• Theatre and real estate
• Ecocritical theatre
• Canadian theatre history
• Theatre-fiction

Research summary

Katrina's scholarly chapters and articles explore the spatial manifestations of theatre, as well as ecocritical theatre, and have been published in several edited collections, as well as national and international journals. Her 2020 dissertation, “Empty House: Real Estate and Theatricality in Vancouver’s Downtown,” is currently being developed as a monograph.

Research affiliations/groups

• Course Correction: Reorienting Approaches to Space in Theatre and Performance
• Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Education 

• “Co-producing Mimesis.” Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis, edited by David Fancy and Conrad Alexandrowicz, Routledge, 2021.
• "Spawning in Concrete: Bridging urban and wild in Uninterrupted." Canadian Theatre Review, 182, 2020, 
• "Extractivism and Performance" Editors: Kimberly Richards and Heather Davis-Fisch Freeman.
• “Memory, Milestones and Monuments: A Peripatetic Exploration of the West Side of UBC Campus.” Co-written with Kelsey Blair, Sandra Chamberlain-Snider, and Julia Henderson. Canadian Theatre Review. 174, 2018, “Commemoration” Editors: Editors: Selena Couture and Heather Davis-Fisch.
• “Andrew Wheeler's Governing Body.” Canadian Theatre Review. 166: 21-27, 2016, “Performing Politicians” Editors: Laura Levin and Barry Freeman.
• “Fearful Stories from the Breathless Ocean: Alanna Mitchell's Sea Sick.” Performance Review in Performance Research. 21(2): 153-155, 2016. “On Sea/At Sea” Editors: Richard Gough and Sam Trubridge, Reviews Editor: Keren Zaiontz.

• 2022 - Richard Plant Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) to the best English-language article on a Canadian theatre or performance topic for Coproducing Mimesis, co-written with Malus fusca.
• 2021 - Best PhD Dissertation in Canadian Studies Prize, Canadian Studies Network for Empty House: Real Estate and Theatricality in Vancouver’s Downtown
• 2017 - Robert G. Lawrence Prize for an emerging scholar, Canadian Association for Theatre Research
• 2017 - Heather McCallum Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
• 2015 - Robert G. Lawrence Prize for an emerging scholar, Canadian Association for Theatre Research

• Treasurer, Canadian Association for Theatre Research 
• Board Member, Shakespeare in the Ruins