Lisa Rubin (born 12 November 1977) is a Canadian theatre director. She lives in Montreal, Canada and since 2014 she is the Artistic and executive director of Segal Centre for Performing Arts. [1]
Lisa Rubin (born 12 November 1977) is a Canadian theatre director. She lives in Montreal, Canada and since 2014 she is the Artistic and executive director of Segal Centre for Performing Arts. [1]
Rubin made her professional directorial debut with the production Bad Jews , during the Segal's 2015–16 season which went to tour to Toronto in 2018. [2]
At the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Rubin has played a role in the development of new Canadian musicals such as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (2014), the English version of Belles Soeurs: The Musical (2017), Prom Queen (2016), The Hockey Sweater, a Musical (2017) and The Angel and the Sparrow (2018). [3] [4]
Hall v Durham Catholic School Board was a 2002 court case in which Marc Hall, a Canadian teenager, fought a successful legal battle against the Durham Catholic District School Board to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom. The case made Canadian and international headlines.
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story is a Canadian television film, which aired on CTV in 2004. The film is about Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teenager whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his Catholic high school prom made headlines in 2002.
Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on niche, B-rated and low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.
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The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, formerly the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, is a theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 5170 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
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Grand Baton is an Afro-Caribbean, progressive rock and jazz fusion band based in New York City. The band was founded by the composer, arranger, guitarist, pianist, singer and songwriter Jean-Cristophe (JC) Maillard, a native of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
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