Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
PhD
Biography
Heather is a scholar, director and dramaturge, interested in performance for, by and with young people. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Mississauga campus where she teaches Women in Theatre, and where she works with Stephen Johnson, researching amateur and children’s theatre in 19th century southern Ontario. For her 2015 dissertation, "Victorian Girls and At-Home Theatricals: Performing and Playing with Possible Futures," she was awarded the Clifford Leech Prize for best PhD dissertation relating to drama or theatre studies at the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, and the AATE Distinguished Dissertation Award. She also earned the CATR Outstanding Submission for a Workshop award in 2016. Her contemporary performance research is published in Youth Theatre Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, and in her two edited collections Theatre and Learning (Cambridge Scholars Press 2015) and Ignite: Illuminating Theatre for Young People (Playwrights Canada Press 2016).
Heather is now an assistant professor at MacEwan University.