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.
Please join us in welcoming Nicole to the team and read more about her here:
Nicole is an award-winning multi-disciplinary theatre artist, creator, director, dramaturg, and
actor. She is a co-founder and member of Good Old Neon, an ensemble-driven experimental performance company, and the artistic director of act2studioWORKS, a company for actors, directors, and writers who are 50+.
Her recent directing work includes Us Against Everyone, One Left Hour: The Life and Work of
Daniil Kharms, and Blue Remembered Hills (Winner – Outstanding Production, Nominee –
Outstanding Design, Outstanding Direction, Critic’s Pick Awards). Her upcoming
directing projects are Gameshow (Good Old Neon), Frankenstein (Highland Arts Theatre and Silent Protagonist), Lysistrata (act2studioWORKS).
As an actor Nicole played recurring character Claire Tinsdale in GoodWitch (seasons 6,7), and starred in The Real Sherlock Holmes (Lighthouse Festival Theatre), the UK tour of Mankind and The Pride of Life (Poculi Ludique Societas); Photographic Evidence (Mixed Company Theatre); The Belt and the Necklace (Odyssey Theatre); as Leblanc in Potosi (Good Old Neon); as Jaquenetta in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dauntless City Theatre Toronto); as Pattie in Brimstone and Treacle (Precisely Peter Productions); and as Nina in The Seagull (Chekhov Collective at The Berkeley Theatre).
Nicole teaches first year Acting and Vocal Masque at George Brown Theatre School, Acting for Writers at George Brown’s Screenwriting and Narrative Design Program, and has also taught acting,improvisation, and collective creation at Ryerson University, Bad Dog Theatre, and Impatient Theatre. One of Nicole’s objectives as a creator and teacher is to facilitate complex, physical, intelligent work that engages with the political moment. In addition to her theatre work, Nicole is an accomplished mathematician with two degrees in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and an MSc from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Mathematical Oncology.
I am so beyond excited to be joining the brilliant team at Shakespeare in the Ruff and look forward to a summer of magic for the Young Ruffians.