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Gordon McCall

Gordon comes to Purdue from Canada where he has been recognized as one of his country’s major contributors to the creation, development and dissemination of a Canadian theatrical voice on both the national and international stage. Mr. McCall is holder of a general arts B.A. from The University of Western Ontario and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre/Directing from The University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, The Alliance of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, and a past member of the Board of Governors of the National Theatre School of Canada. He is a winner of the Montreal, Les Masque, award for Artistic Direction. His career as an educator includes, Assistant Professorships in Drama at Queen’s University and Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University, plus postings as Visiting Artist/Lecturer at The National Theatre School of Canada, Ryerson University, McGill University, Laurentian University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts. For the past many years Gordon has worked as a director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, educator, producer, and artistic director across Canada, in New York City, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Ireland, and Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding or first Artistic Director of several Canadian theatres and for the past ten years has been the Artistic/Executive Director of Montreal’s renowned Centaur Theatre Company. Under his stewardship Centaur won 10 Les Masques awards, 12 MECCA awards, and is the first English-language theatre ever to win the theatre category of the Grand Prix of Montreal.