Rachel Ditor
Jury Member, 2014
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Biography
Rachel Ditor is the literary manager at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver, BC. She’s worked with companies across Canada as a dramaturg in new play development since 1992. Recent favourite dramaturgy credits at ACT include: Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata by Bill Richardson and Veda Hille, The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan, and How Has My Love Affected You? by Marcus Youssef. Also a freelance director, Rachel directed the Canadian premiere of Other Desert Cites by Jon Robin Bates for ACT.
She is also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, and a member of the board for LMDA. In 2012 Rachel was awarded the Bra D’Or by the Playwrights Guild of Canada for her work in premiering and promoting the work of women playwrights. B.A. (McGill), M.F.A. (UBC).
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