As part of the APT Peer Conversation Project, Rinchen Dolma, a past alumni of our APT program speaks with Lucy Coren (theatre producer, creator and dramaturg) about her producing practice and how she came to producing community-based creation. While they converse, the two brainstorm about community engagement on a jam board and even have a budget building jam session.
Trigger warning: Includes the sound of chewing. Caution for those with misophonia.
རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma is a theatre creator, multidisciplinary artist and community arts practitioner currently based in Tkarón:to. She completed her 2020/21 Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program in Artistic Direction at Theatre Passe Muraille and recently completed a residency at the 50th edition of The Banff Playwrights Lab. As a past alumni of Generator Toronto’s APT program, Rinchen has gone on to produce for Theatre Passe Muraille (Digital Creators Lab) and Native Earth Performing Arts (Weesageechak Begins to Dance 35).
Lucy is a creative producer, theatremaker and dramaturg. She worked in the UK from 2015-2019 for organizations such as Theatre Royal Plymouth, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Tramshed Arts and Pegasus Theatre, before returning home to Toronto. Since then she's produced for Factory Theatre, Outside the March and Native Earth Performing Arts. Lucy's recent work includes Transfers (SummerWorks, 2022); and How We Play(ed) (Forward March, 2023.) She is currently a member of Project: Humanity's Proximity Lab.
