How did Marcus Youssef come to be our writer-in-residence? It’s all thanks to Ted Little, a new addition to our Literary Programming Committee who has connections with members of the theatre community across Canada. Reading through his bio, one realizes the extent of Ted’s experience, and what a tremendous asset he is to the artistic and cultural life of the Comox Valley.
Ted’s bio:
Ted Little is a Comox-Valley-born theatre maker, writer, and educator with a particular passion for community engaged theatre and art making. Recently retired from his position as professor of theatre at Montreal’s Concordia University, Ted has returned to the Comox Valley to build a home.
Ted’s teaching, research, and creative practice engage with participatory and interdisciplinary approaches to creating collaborative theatre and performance projects in diverse rural and inner-urban environments. From 2000-2017, Ted was Associate Artistic Director of Teesri Duniya Theatre--a Montreal-based company dedicated to the creation and production of socially and politically relevant theatre based on the cultural experiences of diverse communities, and from 2000-2012, Ted was Editor-in-Chief of alt.theatre a journal examining intersections between politics, cultural plurality, and theatre.
His recent publications include co-authorship of Going Public. The Art of Participatory Practice with documentary film-maker Elizabeth Miller and oral historian Steven High (U.B.C. Press, 2017), and a collection of essays from the Montreal Life Stories Project entitled Remembering Mass Violence with co-editors Steven High, and Thi Ry Duong—coordinator of the project’s Cambodian Working Group (U. Toronto Press, 2014).