Jillian Keiley

Jillian Keiley

Stratford: Director of Richard II. Jillian was the founding Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, and served as the Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre from 2012 to 2022. Director Highlights: Under Wraps, AfterImage, The Cheat, Fear of Flight, The Chekhov Variations, Salvage: Story of a House, Between Breaths, Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Oil and Water, I Forgive You (Artistic Fraud); Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses, Tartuffe, Copenhagen (NAC); Bakkhai, The Diary of Anne Frank, As You Like It, The Neverending Story and Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford Festival); Tell Tale Harbour (Charlottetown Festival); Grand Ghosts (The Grand Theatre); Tempting Providence (TNL). Jillian has Honorary Doctorates from Memorial University and York University. Awards: She was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize for Directing and the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize.

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