Director

Vinetta Strombergs has directed everything from Shakespeare to musicals to original Canadian plays. Her directing credits include many regional theatres, summer theatres and local stages large and small. Most recently she directed The Thanksgiving Play for the Off-Mirvish season. For many years she helped develop First Nations writers and actors through working with Debajehmujig Theatre on Manitoulin Island and Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. She has directed many plays by Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor and Cree writer Kenneth T. Williams. Her production of 60 Below for Native Earth garnered 7 Dora Nominations. She has taught and directed at almost every post-secondary theatre training program in Ontario, helping to prepare the next generation of theatre professionals.