First Name
Eva
Middle Name
Last Name
Barrie
City
Country
State or Province
Job Title
Dramaturg
Biography
Originally from Okotoks, Alberta, Eva Barrie is a Dora Award-winning director, dramaturg, and creator.
Eva has a special love for digging into classical texts for today’s contemporary audiences. Her play Untamed, which explores protest and internalized misogyny and is inspired by Taming of the Shrew and Lysistrata, was supported by Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and Shakespeare in the Ruff, and had a workshop production at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a reading in Tarragon Theatre’s Playreading Week. In spring of 2022, her play Per Gint: A Sort-of-Adaptation of Peer Gynt premiered at George Brown Theatre School. As the former Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Ruff, Eva has led the company through new play development and radical adaptation. She created and directed Ruff’s My Co-Mates & Brothers in Exile, a comedic promenade piece following a refugee’s journey to Canada, and was the dramaturge/director for Portia’s Julius Caesar (named one of the top 9 shows of 2018 by the Toronto Star) and As We Live It (a site-specific, wandering pandemic piece). Through Ruff, she has taught workshops in composition, community-engagement, and site-specific theatre.
Alongside her work with the University of Toronto, she also has the pleasure of teaching the Shakespeare scene study and Devised Theatre studio class at Sheridan College. She has taught the Shakespeare scene study at George Brown, and loves facilitating spaces where new career artists do their best and most authentic work.
Eva was the 2019-2020 Urjo Kareda Residency recipient at Tarragon Theatre (focus: new play development and artistic direction). She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Acting Program and has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in Saratoga Springs, NY and New York City, NY.
As a playwright, her writing has been supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Why Not Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Gargantua, DaPoPo Theatre, Theatrefront, Tarragon Theatre, Shakespeare in the Ruff, and Factory Theatre. She has been a playwright-in-residence at Theatrefront, Factory Theatre, and Tarragon Theatre.
Eva has a special love for digging into classical texts for today’s contemporary audiences. Her play Untamed, which explores protest and internalized misogyny and is inspired by Taming of the Shrew and Lysistrata, was supported by Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and Shakespeare in the Ruff, and had a workshop production at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a reading in Tarragon Theatre’s Playreading Week. In spring of 2022, her play Per Gint: A Sort-of-Adaptation of Peer Gynt premiered at George Brown Theatre School. As the former Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Ruff, Eva has led the company through new play development and radical adaptation. She created and directed Ruff’s My Co-Mates & Brothers in Exile, a comedic promenade piece following a refugee’s journey to Canada, and was the dramaturge/director for Portia’s Julius Caesar (named one of the top 9 shows of 2018 by the Toronto Star) and As We Live It (a site-specific, wandering pandemic piece). Through Ruff, she has taught workshops in composition, community-engagement, and site-specific theatre.
Alongside her work with the University of Toronto, she also has the pleasure of teaching the Shakespeare scene study and Devised Theatre studio class at Sheridan College. She has taught the Shakespeare scene study at George Brown, and loves facilitating spaces where new career artists do their best and most authentic work.
Eva was the 2019-2020 Urjo Kareda Residency recipient at Tarragon Theatre (focus: new play development and artistic direction). She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Acting Program and has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in Saratoga Springs, NY and New York City, NY.
As a playwright, her writing has been supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Why Not Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Gargantua, DaPoPo Theatre, Theatrefront, Tarragon Theatre, Shakespeare in the Ruff, and Factory Theatre. She has been a playwright-in-residence at Theatrefront, Factory Theatre, and Tarragon Theatre.
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English, German
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes