{"id":74,"date":"2012-06-13T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/ryerson-library-asian-heritage-in-canada-authors-nina-lee-aquino\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:48:01","slug":"aquino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/aquino\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Lee Aquino"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nina Lee Aquino is the artistic director Factory Theatre in Toronto, and formerly the artistic director of Cahoots Theatre Projects, and of the fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company. She is an award winning director, dramaturge, and playwright. Some of her monologues have appeared in anthologies such as Beyond the Pale<\/a> and She Speaks<\/a>. Aquino is also the editor of two collections of plays by Asian Canadians (Love + relAsianships<\/em><\/a>), and co-edited a the work of criticism Asian Canadian Theatre<\/em><\/a>. Aquino earned a bachelor degree in drama at the University of Guelph and a masters degree in theatre from the University of Toronto. She is an adjunct professor of theatre arts at York University.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Anthology (Drama)<\/h3>\n

“Miss Orient(ed).” Co-authored with Nadine Villasin. In Love + Relasianships: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama<\/em>. Volume 2<\/span>, ed. Nina Lee Aquino. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009, 93-128.
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Ty, Eleanor, “Feminist Subversions: Comedy and the Carnivalesque,” chap. in Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives<\/span><\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010, 63-86.
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Links<\/h3>\n

Cahoots Theatre Projects<\/a><\/p>\n

Factory Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

fu-GEN<\/a> Asian-Canadian Theatre Company<\/p>\n

Profile<\/a> by Ann Northof in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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