The PARC Dramaturge Profile for June 2023 is the PARC’s outgoing Artistic Director Pamela Halstead (NS)!

Jun 7, 2023

Pamela Halstead (she/her) is a director, dramaturge, actor, teacher and arts administrator. She has worked across Canada in a number of capacities. Having started her career training at Dalhousie University, she spent the next decade working primarily as an actor and teacher until focusing her path more towards directing and dramaturgy. During this time she apprenticed under numerous directors exploring a variety of processes including: Dean Gilmour, Bob White, David Kenney, Ruth Smillie, Ron Jenkins and Sarah Stanley.
Pamela spent six years as the Artistic Director of PARC and is currently the Interim Artistic Producer at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador. As a dramaturge, she has worked for the Banff Playwrights Colony, the Suncor Stage One Festival, the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays, Alberta Playwrights Network and PARC, as well as for a number of individual artists. Her freelance directing work has taken her across the country and includes Neptune Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Lunchbox Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Ships Company Theatre, Valley Summer Theatre, Quest Theatre and Onelight Theatre. Pamela is also the Program Coordinator for PERFORM!, a program that sends professional artists to Nova Scotia schools to work with students, enhancing education through the arts.
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