“I’ve tried to champion those voices and those aesthetics.”Healy left Buddies in 2015 to pursue a Masters in International Arts Management, a program jointly offered by HEC Montreal, Southern Methodist University (in Dallas) and SDA Bocconi (Milan). There is a selection of interdisciplinary imports such as Then, there are intriguing international/Canadian collaborations such as Red Sky Performance’s Healy’s first slate of local productions are, likewise, by Canadian Stage artists Jocelyn also championed. Some information in it may no longer be current.Brendan Healy is the Canadian Stage's new artistic director.After an extensive international search for a candidate, Canadian Stage has chosen Brendan Healy as its new artistic director. We hope to have this fixed soon. Brendan Healy, artistic director of Canadian Stage, poses for a portrait at the Berkeley Theatre in Toronto, March 13, 2019. The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.This article was published more than 2 years ago. Prior to joining Canadian Stage, Monica served as Managing Director of Crow's Theatre for nine years.
If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. "remove":"add"](select.closed),dom.control.setAttribute("aria-expanded",o)}function onToggleClicked(){var l=!isPanelOpen();setPanelState(l)}function onWindowScroll(){window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {var l=isPanelOpen(),n=0===(document.body.scrollTop||document.documentElement.scrollTop);n||l||!allowExpand?n&&l&&(allowExpand=!0,setPanelState(!1)):(allowExpand=!1,setPanelState(!0))});}pencilInit(".js-sub-pencil",!1); // via darwin-bg var slideIndex = 0; carousel(); function carousel() { var i; var x = document.getElementsByClassName("subs_valueprop"); for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) { x[i].style.display = "none"; } slideIndex++; if (slideIndex> x.length) { slideIndex = 1; } x[slideIndex - 1].style.display = "block"; setTimeout(carousel, 2500); } Buddies in Bad Times veteran Brendan Healy chosen as new artistic head at Canadian StageBrendan Healy stepping down as artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Due to technical reasons, we have temporarily removed commenting from our articles. “We feel we found someone who is very much aligned with our vision,” Bailie told The Globe and Mail on Monday. That means:Comments that violate our community guidelines will be removed.© Copyright 2020 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. Asked which show in the current Canadian Stage season might be representative of the type of programming he would bring to the company, Healy pointed to Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. Rounding out Healy’s inaugural season will be a double bill of world premieres by Toronto playwright Susanna Fournier (Between Magnetic North’s collapse (not his fault; he had barely started there) and now, Healy didn’t just work on Canadian celebrity pools, of course – he also had a brief stint as a Brampton, Ont., artistic director of performing arts, which Canadian Stage quickly lured him away from with its “once in a lifetime opportunity.”The long-admired director has been hotly in demand as a leader since he left Buddies in 2015 to enroll in a master’s degree in arts management, a modified MBA that’s a collaboration between universities in Montreal (his hometown), Dallas, Milan and Bogota.Behind the scenes, Healy is now working with the high-profile arts consultant Michael Kaiser to cut Canadian Stage’s long-standing $1.6-million deficit in half this year, in half again the next year, and then completely eliminate it by the end of 2021. “It’s not intended as a statement about Sky. Brendan Healy appointed as Artistic Director of Canadian Stage JULY 18, 2018 – TORONTO, ON — Canadian Stage is thrilled to announce today that following a wide-reaching candidate search, Montréal-born award-winning theatre director and actor Brendan Healy, 43, has been appointed Artistic Director of Canadian Stage. The Montreal native, who served from 2009 to 2015 as the artistic director of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, replaces Matthew Jocelyn, who left the not-for-profit performing-arts organization on good terms last month after a monumental nine-year reign.According to board co-chair and search committee member Alexandra Bailie, Healy shares the artistic priorities of his predecessor, who repositioned Canadian Stage as an interdisciplinary company with a heavy curatorial and collaborative component. “The thing that I really hope to bring to the company is making sure that mandate speaks to the particularities of Toronto … and is reflecting, authentically, Torontonians. “Brendan is interested in leveraging and shaping the legacy left by Matthew Jocelyn and shaping the future.”In addition to being Canadian Stage’s artistic head, Jocelyn also served as the company’s executive director.