Congratulations to internationally acclaimed theatre director and arts administrator Matthew Jocelyn ('79), who has been named Artistic and General Director of The Canadian Stage Company.
Jocelyn was born and raised in Toronto, and was named Chevalier des Art et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Ministry of Culture in July, 2008.
In Canada, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Mount Allison and a Master of Arts degree at Montreal’s McGill University. He attended the Université d’Aix-en-Provence in France and Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar.
He was shaped by some of the leading forces in European and Asian theatre and dance. He studied with acclaimed Polish director Jerzy Grotowski, Japanese Butoh dance master Tanaka Min, and was assistant to renowned French director Patrice Chéreau and England’s legendary Jonathan Miller.
His professional credits include: guest director at Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival where he received critical acclaim for the direction of Pierre Corneille’s The Liar (Le menteur) in 2006; co-founding the Théâtre de l’Autre Rive, founding the Théâtre Des-Hérités and directing at the Atelier Chekhov in Paris; assisting in artistic coordination and directing at the Centre de Formation Lyrique of the Paris National Opera; creating and performing dance-theatre productions in France and Spain; developing and directing original plays, operas and translations in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany and Brussels.
He is an educator, who has held positions at the University of Toronto, the American University of Paris and the Université de Toulouse-le Mirail and more recently at the Conservatoire National Supérieure d’Art Dramatique in Paris.
In 1998, the French Minister of Culture appointed Jocelyn as the Artistic and General Director of the Atelier du Rhin, a regional drama centre in Colmar, France. Over a 10-year period, he put the Atelier du Rhin on the international map, establishing the organization as a major centre for theatre, opera and contemporary dance - the only multidisciplinary artistic centre of its kind in France.
It became highly regarded for the excellence of its productions, numerous artistic residencies, network of community and educational programs, and the state-of-the-art renovations transforming it into one of the best-equipped and most versatile theatres in France.
His achievements included launching the Jeunes Voix du Rhin, an internationally recognized training centre which attracts performers and instructors from around the world; and establishing France’s first policy of corporate sponsorship and partnership for artistic institutions.
In addition to his administrative and financial roles, he directed a number of productions at the
Atelier du Rhin and Jeunes voix du Rhin.
Learn more about the Canadian Stage Company.
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Canadian Stage hands reins to Jocelyn
(Globe and Mail)
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