JULY 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31		INTRODUCTION Rod Carley - Bio Rod is currently Coordinator for Canadore College’s Theatre Arts Program as well as Artistic Director of REP 21. He was the winner of TVO’s 2009 Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition and recently taped another lecture that aired this past April as part of TVO’s Big Ideas Celebration series. He was recently nominated for the Ontario Arts Council’s 2011 K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Theatre. Rod has directed over 100 stage productions to date, both nationally and internationally, ranging from the classics to the development of new Canadian work. He was Artistic Director of the Nipissing Stage Company from 1999 to 2005. Most recently he starred as Billy Blight in his self-written one man show Witless and wrote, directed and acted in his new work SLAM (both funded by an Ontario Arts Council Northern Arts Project Grant). As an actor Rod has spent four seasons performing for the Highlands Summer Festival in Haliburton. Other roles include Pozzo in Waiting for Godot (Winner – Best Production – 2010 Theatre Ontario Festival), Bruce Delamtri in Popcorn and Granddaddy Meeks in The Sugar Witch (Rep 21/Theatre Passe Muraille), Sebastian in The Tempest (NSC), Caldbick in Wanted (NSC), and Will Shakespeare in Elizabeth Rex (GTG). His recent film and tv credits include the recurring role of The Porcelain Man in the tv series Dark Rising: The Savage Tales of Summer Vale currently airing on Super Channel. Other acting projects include the documentary film Harold and Lorna, Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers for J2 Productions/Canadore College in May as well as directing Macbeth and The Donnellys for Rep 21′s coming summer season. Rod directed and produced the Northern Ontario premiere of Lee MacDougall’s HIGH LIFE which represented Northern Ontario at the Theatre Ontario Festival in 2002 (Outstanding Director’s Award and Production Award). Other directing credits include: the Toronto premiere of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, the Canadian premiere of Talking to Terrorists, the Northern Ontario premiere of The Laramie Project, his adaptations of Henry V and The Othello Project, and Our Country’s Good. Rod spent two seasons with the Stratford Festival as an Assistant Director and was the first recipient of the Festival’s Jean Gascon Director’s Award; he also received a Tyrone Guthrie Award. He was nominated for the inaugural John Hirsch Director’s Award and was short-listed for the Pauline McGibbon Award. Rod’s adaptation and direction of The Othello Project earned him a 1996 DORA Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction as well as a 1998 Carbonnell Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction (Florida Shakespeare Festival, Miami). Rod has been a sessional professor with Nipissing University for the past twelve years, a Guest Artist with the University of Windsor (four years), George Brown Theatre School (three years), and has taught workshops for the Stratford Festival, Equity Showcase, Artsperience, Theatre Ontario, and school boards throughout the province. He has been a provincial adjudicator for the past fifteen years.