Katrina Dunn

• THTR 1220 - Introduction to Theatre
• THTR 2150 - Theatrical Techniques: Onstage
• THTR 2600 / ENGL 2900 - Canadian Theatre
• THTR 3000 - Special Topics in Theatre Production

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

• 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.

• “Pandemic Remembered: Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918) Remedied.” Modern Drama, vol. 67.4, 2024, pp. 466-489.
• “Variant of Concern: University Theatre Pandemic Production through the Zoom Lens,” for the collection Pandemic Play: Community in Performance, Gaming, & the Arts, Editors: Catherine Quirk and Carolyn Ownbey, Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Studies in Performance and Technology Series, pp. 53-65, 2024.
• “Spectral Effects: Dual Roles, Doubling, and Invisibility in Robertson Davies’s World of Wonders,” for the collection The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction, edited by Graham Wolfe, Routledge, pp. 89-99, 2023.
• “Aging Women and the Apocalypse: Three dramatic representations,” co-written with Dr. Julia Henderson, for the collection Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters, edited by Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg, Lexington, 2023, pp. 163-182, 2023.
• “Co-producing Mimesis.” Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis, edited by David Fancy and Conrad Alexandrowicz, Routledge, 2021.
   

• 2024 - Meritorious Service Decoration (Civil Division), Chancellery of Honours, Office of the Governor General of Canada, for co-founding Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
• 2022 - Richard Plant Award for best English-language long-form article, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, for “Coproducing Mimesis,” co-written with Malus fusca.
• 2022 - President’s Award, CATR, for exceptional service to the organization.
• 2021 - Merit Award in the Combination of Teaching, Service and Research, Scholarly Work and Other Creative Acts, University of Manitoba and University of Manitoba Faculty Association.
• 2021 – Co-Winner of Best PhD Dissertation in Canadian Studies Prize, Canadian Studies Network, for Empty House: Real Estate and Theatricality in Vancouver’s Downtown.
• 2017 - Heather McCallum Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
• 2015 and 2017 - Robert G. Lawrence Prize for an emerging scholar, Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
   

• Vice-Chair, Shakespeare in the Ruins