MA THEATRE ALUMNA AMY LYNN STRILCHUK ANNOUNCED AS ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE’S NEW MANAGING PRODUCER.
Congratulations to Amy Lynn Strilchuk, creator, producer, and promoter of contemporary and new Canadian work. With over 10 years of arts administration experience for companies like Alberta Theatre Projects, Arts Club Theatre Company, Ballet BC, and Gateway Theatre, Amy is an MA graduate from UBC (2006) and is known for working in close collaboration with the artists whose work she represents to bring their ideas to life. As a dramaturg, she has also developed dozens of new plays for premiere at ATP, Ghost River Theatre, and Green Thumb Theatre.
Electric Company Theatre is one of Canada’s leading creators of live theatre, rich in spectacle and adventurous in form, challenging theatrical conventions while preserving a strong sense of story.
Electric Company Theatre was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Siminovitch Prize-winning director Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Jonathon Young and Governor General’s Award-winning writer Kevin Kerr, who met while training at Studio 58. Kim Collier currently leads the company as Artistic Director. The company has created 22 original productions including Betroffenheit, Tear the Curtain!, No Exit, Studies in Motion, Brilliant!, and the feature film The Score.
Electric Company Theatre has toured throughout Canada, to the US and the UK and co-founded Progress Lab 1422, a 6,000 sq ft theatre creation space in Vancouver BC, with Rumble Theatre, Neworld Theatre and Boca del Lupo.
http://www.electriccompanytheatre.com