Ruff is hiring a Front-of-House Manager to join our team this summer. We’re looking for someone organized, friendly, and self-motivated with a love for theatre and the unpredictability of working outdoors!
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We have been blown away by your excitement and support this season. From your participation in Ruff Reads to selling out our Queen Margaret reading; from filling Blind
Imaginings beyond capacity to your words of celebration about our Richard Three casting announcement; from subscribing to Ruff Radio to spreading the word about the Young Ruffian
program. We love you, and we are grateful for you!
The DisCo Forum is a FREE opportunity for early career Disabled artists to meet, talk, and share work with Alexia Vassos and the Ruff Leadership Collective. Curious about agencies that rep Disabled artists? Have a monologue you want some feedback on? Need someone to proofread your resume? Bring it! We’re here for you.
Thanks to a $10,900 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation in 2022, Shakespeare in the Ruff (Ruff) has been working to expand its accessibility capacity as an organization over the past year. The project has involved consulting with Deaf and disability community advisors Elizabeth Morris, Alex Bulmer, and Ophira Calof, and training to make Ruff’s website accessible.
We are thrilled to introduce Nicole Wilson as the Education Coordinator for the 2023 season. Nicole will be working with PJ Prudat and the Ruff Collective to develop the Young Ruffian Apprenticeship Program and dream BIG with us this summer.
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Shakespeare in the Ruff is thrilled to welcome award-winning actor, writer, director, and educator Alex Bulmer to The Playground! With the generous support of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ruff is hosting Alex’s workshop for creators, BLIND IMAGININGS, on Saturday April 22nd from 1pm-4pm.
Join us on February 26 for the second annual Ruff’s Winter Tale, presented this season with the generous support of Crow’s Theatre. Each year, RWT acts as the official launch of our season and initiates our interrogation of the themes, characters, and stories we are focusing on for the year.
Ruff 2023: RICHARD III
Join us under the Withrow willows this summer for Richard Three, written by William Shakespeare and Ruff’s own Patricia Allison. Richard Three marks the first time Ruff has revisited a play (we first produced a Richard III ten years ago in 2013), but we promise that this Richard will be unlike anything you’ve seen before.
This year a limited number of 2022 Holiday cards went out to the Ruff 100 and some special donors. We are thrilled to introduce you to the artist featured on our card:
Ruff’s own Technical Director Carley Melvin!
Shakespeare in the Ruff is thrilled to welcome renowned actor and teacher Irene Poole to the Playground. In this three-day intensive, participants will explore ways of making Shakespeare’s language and poetic images personal and playable. By using a variety of techniques to find meaning, clarity of thought, and the emotional journey, participants will strive to get to that magic place where poetic image is married to situational truth.
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