Christopher Brauer, University of Winnipeg
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Film
Winnipeg, Manitoba
c.brauer@uwinnipeg.ca
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(204) 786-9006
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Christopher Brauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg where he teaches senior-level courses in directing and acting with an emphasis on performing Shakespeare. He regularly directs the department's Shakespeare productions.
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Bio/Research
Christopher Brauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg where he teaches senior-level courses in directing and acting with an emphasis on performing Shakespeare. He regularly directs the department's Shakespeare productions.
He holds a B.A. Hons. in Theatre from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A. in Acting from York University. Through the mid-1990s Christopher acted with a number of prestigious Toronto theatre companies, and in 1996 he was co-founder of The Georgian Theatre Festival, an equity summer theatre festival in Meaford, Ontario. During seven seasons with that company, Christopher worked as an actor, company manager, director of educational programming, associate producer, and resident director. He was also Artistic Director of The Vicious Gossip Group, an independent Toronto theatre company. He taught extensively for Theatre Aquarius, The Drama Workshop, The Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and York University.
Since moving to Winnipeg in 2005 Christopher has pursued his two main areas of interest: directing classics - principally Shakespeare, and the development of an actor-training methodology based on the methods of Canadian clown teacher Richard Pochinko. Christopher has directed extensively in Winnipeg, and worked as an original-practices Text Coach for Shakespeare in the Ruins. He has studied the Pochinko-style approach to clown training with John Turner (Smoot of Mump & Smoot), and has assisted him at his summer training intensive on Manitoulin Island in Ontario.
Upcoming he will direct both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America for the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre.
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He holds a B.A. Hons. in Theatre from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A. in Acting from York University. Through the mid-1990s Christopher acted with a number of prestigious Toronto theatre companies, and in 1996 he was co-founder of The Georgian Theatre Festival, an equity summer theatre festival in Meaford, Ontario. During seven seasons with that company, Christopher worked as an actor, company manager, director of educational programming, associate producer, and resident director. He was also Artistic Director of The Vicious Gossip Group, an independent Toronto theatre company. He taught extensively for Theatre Aquarius, The Drama Workshop, The Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and York University.
Since moving to Winnipeg in 2005 Christopher has pursued his two main areas of interest: directing classics - principally Shakespeare, and the development of an actor-training methodology based on the methods of Canadian clown teacher Richard Pochinko. Christopher has directed extensively in Winnipeg, and worked as an original-practices Text Coach for Shakespeare in the Ruins. He has studied the Pochinko-style approach to clown training with John Turner (Smoot of Mump & Smoot), and has assisted him at his summer training intensive on Manitoulin Island in Ontario.
Upcoming he will direct both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America for the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre.
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