In this episode, PJ Prudat and Patricia Allison sit down with Jenna Rodgers the director of Teenage Dick by Mike Lew, which is currently happening at the Alberta Theatre Projects. This is a companion piece to our season-long exploration of all things of Shakespeare’s Richard III and to the Ruff Reads book club which selected Teenage Dick by Mike Lew as our April read.
Listen in to this beautiful conversation with Jenna Rodgers where we talk about the play and working across difference. Enjoy!
In this Episode…
Jenna Rodgers (she/her) is a mixed-race Director and Dramaturg who gratefully resides on land called Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), on Treaty 7 Territory. She is the founding Artistic Director of Chromatic Theatre – a company dedicated to producing and developing work by and for racialized artists. Jenna is also the Dramaturg for the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Board Co-Chair of LMDA, and the Artstrek Director for Theatre Alberta. She is a passionate arts equity advocate, a graduate of the NTS Artistic Leadership Residency (2020), the Banff Centre’s Cultural Leadership Program (2019), and a member of the artEquity National Facilitator Training cohort (2018). She is the most recent recipient of Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize, and of the 2018 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Award for Emerging Artists. She holds a MA in International Performance Research from the universities of Amsterdam and Tampere