Heidi is a Vancouver-based dramaturg, director, and performer. Since joining Playwrights Theatre Centre as Associate Dramaturg in November 2005, she has dramaturged over 50 new plays, and worked with writers from across the Canada. She became Artistic & Executive Director in 2012. Currently, she is supporting the work of PTC's Associate playwrights, in addition to company collaborations with rice & beans theatre, Virago New Play Series, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT), and Mindy Parfitt and Amber Funk Barton. Heidi has co-created many site-specific and community-based projects, including Happyland! (Proximity/Leaky Heaven Circus), Final Viewing (Radix Theatre), Other Freds (assistant director, The Only Animal), and The World: an Odyssey in six or more parts (Part IV) (Michael Counts, GAle GAtes et al., New York). Heidi holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Contemporary Art from Simon Fraser University, where she taught acting as a sessional instructor for 15 years. Heidi was VP Canada for LMDA 2012-14, and the first president of the board for the newly minted LMDA Canada. She was conference chair for the LMDA Vancouver conference in 2013, and is currently Treasurer of LMDA.

Process design, new play dramaturgy, site-specific performance, solo performance, inclusive theatre practice

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