The Company

Adam Paolozza – Artistic Director

Adam Paolozza is a Dora award-winning Toronto based performer and director.

In 2003 he co-founded TheatreRUN creating original work and touring to Europe and America. TheatreRUN highlights: Horror Vacui: A Twisted Tale (2003 New York Fringe, 2004 Piccolo Spoleto, 2004 Edinburgh Festival), Russian Doll (2004 commissioned and performed at ConWorks Contemporary Arts Center in Seattle. Seattle Times FOOTLIGHT AWARD.)
In 2005 he created a Canadian branch of TheatreRUN to produce his own projects. Since then he has created TOOLS (2008. A clown show. Co-written and co-directed by Adam), The Raven (2009. A “Chamber Mime” adaptation of Poe’s masterpiece, co-created with Ravi Jain and Coleen MacPherson) and SPENT (2009. Co-creation with Theatre Smith-Gilmour and Why Not Theatre. Co-written by Adam Paolozza. Nominated for three Dora awards including Best New Play, Best Overall Production and won for Outstanding Performance).
He is currently developing The Double, a musical, mime-based adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella with double bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi (from the award winning band Protest The Hero) and Theatre Passe Muraille. He’s also developing The Pasolini Project, a new adaptation of Pasolini’s tragedy Pylade, translated with Coleen MacPherson and directed by Adam.
His recent works in French include, Artaud: un portrait en décomposition, based on the life of poet Antonin Artaud, in co-production with Théâtre Français de Toronto, and L’Empire de la nuit, a performance of French poetry co-produced by the Alliance Française de Toronto and created in collaboration with experimental musician Prince Nifty and Charles Ketchabaw.
Adam has created and performed with Pleiades Theatre, TheatreSKAM, The Children’s Peace Theatre, BoucharDanse, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille and Corpus Dance Projects. He is a regular collaborator with Theatre Smith-Gilmour (Chekhov’s Heartache 2006, Katherine Mansfield 2008 and Lu Xun Blossoms 2007 which was co-produced with the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, toured across China and will be presented as part of The Luminato Festival this June 2011, GRIMM too 2010 and SPENT 2009-10).
He has directed for Soulpepper (The Sound Plays, Luminato Festival 2008, w/Ravi Jain) and for the Children’s Peace Theatre (HERO: Under Construction, 2008 and In Shadows, 2009).
He has created several performance art installations with Laura Nanni including Theatre In A Box 2006 at Buddies in Bad Times and the Playground Series 2006-7 using schoolyard games with adults and children to explore issues of conflict resolution through play.
Adam has taught acting workshops all over Canada, Scotland and in India, using his own unique interpretation of the Lecoq pedagogy. He teaches children, students and professionals.
He is a graduate of École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Ryerson Theatre School and studied mime with the Decroux company Intrepido in Paris.

Coleen MacPherson – Associate Artist, co-producer of The Pasolini Project

 

TheatreRUN Collaborators

Ravi Jain from Why Not Theatre

Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith from Theatre Smith-Gilmour

Dan Watson from Ahuri Theatre

Lisa Marie Diliberto from Fixt Point Theatre

Coleen MacPherson

Miranda Calderon

Arif Mirabdolbaghi

Rebecca Singh

Fabio Fabbri

Julian Dezotti

Erin Shields

Kimwun Perehinec

Matt Smith (aka Prince Nifty)

Charles Ketchabaw

Andre du Toit

Viktor Lukawski

Ken Mackenzie

Jiv Parasram

Lacey Creighton

Norah Sadava