lois brown ART PRACTICE

Lois Brown Artist Head Shot

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My interests are in explorations of dramaturgy and choreography, principles of (dis) arts aesthetics, and an investigation of things. The work resulting from these processes and investigations aims beyond interdisciplinariness, beyond a synthesis of disciplinary approaches towards something else, another dimension of expression and experience. My current fascinations includes everyday cold water and sound, social art practice, and archipelagic thinking.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • (B.A Drama, University of Alberta, M.Ed Memorial University) Born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada

  • Established an independent cross-disciplinary artistic practice in St. John’s in where she currently live and works (1980-)

  • Past Artistic Animateur of RCA Theatre Company (1993-97)

  • Original member and past Curator of Neighbourhood Dance Works (1984-90,1990-93)

  • Past Artist in Residence and dramaturg at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2010-13)

AWARDS

  • Inducted into Dance Canada Danse Encore! Dance Hall of Fame, 2019

  • Best Play, Current’s Audience Choice, 2016

  • YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, 2015

  • Rhonda Payne Award, 2011

  • The Newfoundland and Labrador Artist Achievement Award, 2005

  • The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement in theatre by a mid-career Canadian artist by The Canada Council for the Arts 2004.

  • One of five Canadian directors short-listed for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize, 2004.

  • NLAC’s Senior Artist Award, 2002

  • Best Feature The Toronto International DV Festival 2000

  • Outstanding Writer, AFF 2000

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATION

  • Recovering Intuition, Presentation for YWCA, Memorial University Campus

  • Improvisations with things, Performance-presentation, FOOT: Supporting Bodies/Changing Minds: What can drama, theatre and performance studies contribute to a barrier-free society? University of Toronto, 2018

  • After the Trauma: Personal and Societal Impacts of PTSD Lois Brown and Lori Clarke discuss the evolution of Brown’s play “When the Angel of Death says ?how Are You…,” its roots in PTSD resulting from a traumatic traffic accident, and the therapeutic role of Somatic Experiencing® as an intervention for people with PTSD. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Conference, Memorial University, 2016

  • The Atlantic Dance Scene, Showcase for Canadian Dance Presenters, CanDance Network, Festival of new dance, Neighbourhood Dance Works, St. John’s

  • What Are You Doing? Dramaturgical Approaches to Eesti: Myths and Machines, Canadian Theatre Review 155, Summer 2013

  • Sex the Rules of by Lois Brown (play), Denyse Lynde (ed), The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays Volume 2, Breakwater Books Ltd., 2012