Christine Brubaker is a director, writer and Associate Professor at UCalgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts. She specializes in new work and adaptation. Recent directing credits include premieres of The Horse and His Boy (Shaw Festival); Smoke (Downstage), Wilde Tales (Shaw), and Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille); and the workshop premiere of Suzanna Fournier’s antigone lives* (SCPA). She is a co-creator of 7^th Cousins: An Automythography, a performance that chronicles a 700km walk tracing the immigration route of her Mennonite ancestors. Christine is the creator of Henry G20, a contemporary adaptation of Henry V that speaks to policing and the protest movement and premieres at the Luminato Festival in 2021. She is the winner of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for performance, the Gina Wilkinson Prize, and the Ken MacDougall Prize for Directing. She is an alumnus of NTS and the Michael Langham Program for Direction at the Stratford Festival. www.christinebrubaker.com