[e-drive][NOMINATIONS FOR THE DEAN OTT AND DEBBIE BOULT AWARD - TORONTO]

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NOMINATIONS FOR THE DEAN OTT AND DEBBIE BOULT AWARD - TORONTO
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Applications Being Accepted for the 
Dean Ott and Debbie Boult Technical Theatre Award

Established in 2000, the Dean Ott and Debbie Boult Technical Theatre
Award will be given to an individual with a serious interest in becoming
a Technical Director in a professional theatre. The candidate should
have professional theatre experience or extensive experience in
community or educational theatres. Previous winners of the award are Ben
Chaisson, Jason Hand, Craig Putt and Patrick Wood.
Applications are being accepted for the next Dean Ott and Debbie Boult
Technical Theatre Award. The individual receiving the award will work as
the Assistant Technical Director at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre For Young
People (LKTYP) on the production Blue Planet in Toronto from November
28, 2004 to January 28, 2005. They will be mentored and supervised for
nine weeks by Ian Arnold, Production Manager and Matt Farrell, Technical
Director at LKTYP.  A bursary of $500 per week will be paid to the
selected candidate over the 9 week contract. Applicants must be
residents of Ontario.

To honour Toronto theatre professionals, the late Dean Ott and Debbie
Boult, a special trust fund was created. Annual contributions from the
trust fund and additional support from the Professional Theatre Training
Program of Theatre Ontario (funded by the Ontario Arts Council) make
this annual award possible. Dean Ott and Debbie Boult met during their
high school production of Godspell, married and worked together at
Sunshine Theatre in Kelowna, BC, JV Theatre Productions and Theatre
Calgary in Calgary, and The Canadian Stage Company in Toronto. In 1998,
Dean Ott and Debbie Boult died and in their memory, a special fund to
encourage the development of aspiring theatre technicians was created.
Donations to the Dean Ott and Debbie Boult Technical Theatre Award are
always welcome. To make a donation, contact John Goddard at Lorraine
Kimsa Theatre for Young People at 416-363-5131.

Dean Ott, a former General Manager at Young People's Theatre (known
today as the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People), could always see
everyone's potential and he mentored the careers of scores of theatre
technicians. Debbie Boult was Company Manager and Executive Assistant to
the Managing Director at Canadian Stage. Her kindness, generosity,
loyalty and constant good humour were a touchstone for the hundreds of
actors, directors, stage managers, board members and staff with whom she
worked over the years. 

Thanks to Simon Marsden and Paul Shaw at Canadian Stage Company, Julian
Sleath at Canadian Opera Company and Ian Arnold, Kevin Ryan and Matt
Farrell at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People for mentoring
technical directors through this award program. 

Deadline for Applications: August 2, 2004
Selection of the winner will be made by September 1, 2004. 

A PDF of the Nomination Guidelines and Application Form is available at
www.theatreontario.org 
 
John Watson
Communications and
Membership Coordinator

Theatre Ontario
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 210
Toronto ON  M5T 2C7
phone: 416-408-4556
fax: 416-408-3402
www.theatreontario.org
news at theatreontario.org
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