EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The Founding Artistic Director of Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Brian Richmond is a multi-award-winning producer, director, dramaturge and educator who has created work for most of the major theatres across Canada for more than five decades.  The director of more than 150 productions he has worked with several of his generations leading playwrights and has served as the artistic leader of several Canadian theatres including Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre (which he co-founded), Montreal Playwrights’ Workshop, Thunder Bay’s Magnus Theatre and Toronto’sTheatre Passe Muraille. He is also a professor in the Department of Theatre at UVic where heserved as Chair from 2001-2008.