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Nina Lee Aquino is a Filipino-Canadian theatre director who was the founding artistic director of Toronto's fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.
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Nina Lee Aquino is a Filipino-Canadian theatre director who was the founding artistic director of Toronto's fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.
In 2012 she was appointed artistic director of Toronto's Factory Theatre. [1] After a ten-year tenure at Factory, she was named artistic director of English Theatre at Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. [2] [3] Aquino is credited with a string of firsts in Asian Canadian theatre: she organized the first Asian Canadian theatre conference; she edited the first Asian Canadian play anthology, and she co-edited the first book on Asian Canadian theatre. [4] She also currently serves as the president of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT). [5] Aquino has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award. [6]
Over the last decade, Aquino has directed multiple seminal Canadian productions at major Canadian theatre companies including Soulpepper Theatre, [7] Tarragon, [8] and the Shaw Festival. [9]
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