Nina Lee Aquino

In 2012 she was appointed artistic director of Toronto's Factory Theatre.^[1] After a ten-year tenure at Factory, she was named artistic director of English Theatre at Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.^[2][3] Aquino is credited with a string of firsts in Asian Canadian theatre: she organized the first Asian Canadian theatre conference; she edited the first Asian Canadian play anthology, and she co-edited the first book on Asian Canadian theatre.^[4] She also currently serves as the president of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT).^[5] Aquino has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award.^[6]

Over the last decade, Aquino has directed multiple seminal Canadian productions at major Canadian theatre companies including Soulpepper Theatre,^[7] Tarragon,^[8] and the Shaw Festival.^[9]