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Anthony Kennedy
Job Title: Co-Artistic Director
Organization affiliation:
Location: Montreal,
QC
CABAL theatre
Member since: 2017
Education:
BFA Concordia University Theatre Performance
Biography:
Anthony Kennedy is a theatre director/designer/dramaturg/perfomer whose work focuses on queering, and what it means to tamper with normative methods of creation, performance and spectatorship. As a genderqueer artist this conversation is necessary part of all their work, but the emphasis is on the playful and questioning, rather than the dogmatic. Anthony has spent the last decade making theatre in North America, Britain and Germany. Their career began with an emphasis on site responsive, immersive work (Listed Theatre) and while this is something regularly explored, they are equally excited working in a post-dramatic tradition in a pros-arch/black box setting as well. Along with theatre, Anthony works in other forms of contemporary performance such as puppetry and dance often working with Bread & Puppet Theater.
Outside of live performance Anthony does video art, photography and cinema projects.
Areas of Expertise:
Overwriting, Classical text, Devised theatre, site responsive theatre, documentary theatre, multimedia work, interdisciplinary performance, object theatre, physical theatre.
Language(s) spoken:
English, French (intermediate), German(Beginner)
Recent Work:
Last year they directed/created four principle works, Bestias Necesarias (Habla Claro Dance Theatre) Confiteor vol I & II (Obra Anaïs), vol II was nominated for 5 Montreal English Theatre awards, and an adaptation of Mary Stuart (CABAL).
Currently they are working with the live art collective CABAL theatre’s 2017/18 season - Tragic Queens, MORNING/NIGHT and Cries and Whispers projects. They are also directing/dramaturging a two-man mask performance adaptation of Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami as well as the premier of Wasp by Rhiannon Collett (Nightswimming). Along with this they are directing a series of radio plays featuring the writing of Rhiannon Collett, Kyle Croutch and Joseph Shragge.
They will be working as a dramaturg on Scapegoat Carnivale’s production of Oedipus (Centaur Theatre)
As a performer/deviser they are collaborating on Sapientia by Roswitha directed by Mia Van Leeuwen - an object performance (Out of Line/Scapegoat Carnivale).
In 2018 Anthony will be doing scenography for a devised piece in collaboration with the Schaubühne in Berlin.
Website: https://www.cabaltheatre.com/