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- 1 2 J. Kelly Nestruck (2018-10-11). "Home from the wars: Weyni Mengesha returns to Toronto to run Soulpepper". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- 1 2 Bahia Watson. "Spotlight: Weyni Mengesha". Intermission Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ↑ "Weyni Mengesha: Artistic Director, Biography". Soulpepper Theatre . Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- 1 2 J. Kelly Nestruck (2016-09-01). "How stories shaped Weyni Mengesha into the theatre director she is today". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2019-07-03.
That's one way to come out of maternity leave. "Two babies, three shows," is how Mengesha summarizes her schedule this summer – the Vancouver-born, Scarborough-raised director now has both a one-year-old boy and three-year-old boy with her husband, the American actor Eion Bailey.
- ↑ Carly Maga (2018-10-11). "Soulpepper names its new artistic director". Toronto Star . Retrieved 2019-07-03.
Paired with the hiring of UK-based arts administrator Emma Stenning as Soulpepper's new executive director in August, Toronto's largest not-for-profit theatre company will now be led by two women after a year rocked by legal and internal discord.
- ↑ Mercedes Grundy (April 29, 2016). "Meet Stratford's new royal family". Exhibitionists .
- ↑ Courtney Shea (2019-01-23). "Q&A: Soulpepper artistic director Weyni Mengesha on life after SchultzAnd how to save a theatre company from its scandal-plagued past". Toronto Life magazine . Retrieved 2019-07-03.
I came to this job championing Canadian voices that weren't represented on stage, in shows like 'da Kink in My Hair and Kim's Convenience. With 'da Kink, for example, we were the first Canadian show at the Princess of Wales Theatre, and a show about women of colour at that.
- ↑ Carly Maga (2020-06-14). "As one of the few Black theatre leaders in Toronto, for Weyni Mengesha systemic racism is nothing new". Toronto Star .