Coleen Shirin MacPherson
Stratford: Metcalf Foundation Intern/associate director of The Winter's Tale; assistant director of Richard III. Elsewhere: Directing: Erased (Open Heart Surgery Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille); This Is Why We Live (Open Heart Surgery Theatre/La MaMa’s 58th season); Trout Stanley (assistant director, Factory Theatre); Divisadero (assistant director, Necessary Angel). Playwriting: Erased (Theatre Passe Muraille); First Draft (Falaki Theater, Cairo/Camden People’s Theatre, London, U.K.); MH 370 (Fu-GEN Theatre); Wild Women Podcast (co-created with Martha Ross); co-translated Pylade by Pasolini (Great Jones Repertory Theatre, New York City). In Residence: Cahoots Theatre, creator-in-residence; Modern Times Experimental Theatre Group. Training: Langham Directors’ Workshop 2022, École Internationale de Jacques Lecoq, Director Training Enhancement at Factory Theatre. Awards: Ken McDougall Award in Directing. Online: openheartsurgerytheatre.com, @coleenshirin, @ohsurgerytheatre. Coleen is the artistic director of Open Heart Surgery Theatre.
