Kathryn Bracht

Theatre Department Head

Professor

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Area of Focus: Acting, Physical Theatre, Ethnographic Theatre, Solo Performance, Directing, New Play Development, Devising

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Research Interests

Physical theatre
Ethnographic theatre
Solo performance
Devising
New play development
Acting
Directing

Kathryn Bracht is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department in the faculty of Media, Art, and Performance where she teaches acting, directing, and devising. She received her BFA (Acting) from UBC, and her MFA (Directing) from the University of Alberta, and has appeared professionally in theatre as an actor and director across Western Canada. She has recently extended her practice-based creative research into playwriting and devising been She participated in the Persephone Theatre’s 2017 – 2018 Playwright’s Unit with her one-act play Draw Near, which culminated in a staged reading in the Tasty Bits series at the Saskatchewan Playwright’s Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays. In October of 2018 she was honored to be selected from over 300 international playwrights to have her latest work-in-progress Seed performed in a staged reading at the Women Playwright’s International Conference in Santiago, Chile.