Donovan King is a professional actor, teacher, historian, and tour
guide from Montreal, Quebec. As the founder of Haunted Montreal, a
company that researches ghost stories and offers haunted tours, King
hires professional actors to lead the tours and publishes a new ghost
story every month on the Haunted Montreal Blog. King is also a
performance activist and experimental theatre artist who juggles
acting, teaching, directing, dramaturgy, and theory to create dramatic
projects that challenge systemic oppression. Known for his commitment
to education and community, King assisted with the establishment of
the Montreal Fringe Festival in 1991, is the author of Doing Theatre
in Montreal and he set up the Montreal Infringement Festival in
2004.King holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from
the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama in
Education from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Education from
McGill University and a Diplome d’Études Collegiales in Acting from
John Abbott College. He is the author of Optative Theatre: A Critical
Theory, and he facilitates various activist campaigns and drama
classes in Montreal. He has been known to collaborate with other
theatre activists internationally such as Augusto Boal, Andrew Boyd of
the Billionaires for Bush, Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen), Stephen
Duncombe, Larry Bogad, Kathryn Blume, Kurt Schneiderman, Jason C.
McLean, Gary St. Laurent, and many others.As the co-founder of the
Optative Theatrical Laboratories (OTL) King strives to revitalise
theatre as an agent for social change through experimental practice,
critical theory, and sustained performance. The OTL designs
interconnected theatrical campaigns such as Car Stories, that target
instances of oppression, and employs a diversity of cutting-edge
activist performance techniques: culture-jamming, Viral Theatre,
Sousveillance Theatre, meme-warfare, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
and Global Invisible Theatre, to name a few.In 2006, King took issue
with racism inherent in what has been called "Canada’s First Play"
â€" the 1606 The Theatre of Neptune (Le Théâtre de Neptune) by Marc
Lescarbot. OTL staged a counter-performance called "Sinking Neptune"
in Annapolis Royal on the day of the "400th Theatre Anniversary"
(November 14, 2006), in order to protest the original.
guide from Montreal, Quebec. As the founder of Haunted Montreal, a
company that researches ghost stories and offers haunted tours, King
hires professional actors to lead the tours and publishes a new ghost
story every month on the Haunted Montreal Blog. King is also a
performance activist and experimental theatre artist who juggles
acting, teaching, directing, dramaturgy, and theory to create dramatic
projects that challenge systemic oppression. Known for his commitment
to education and community, King assisted with the establishment of
the Montreal Fringe Festival in 1991, is the author of Doing Theatre
in Montreal and he set up the Montreal Infringement Festival in
2004.King holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from
the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama in
Education from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Education from
McGill University and a Diplome d’Études Collegiales in Acting from
John Abbott College. He is the author of Optative Theatre: A Critical
Theory, and he facilitates various activist campaigns and drama
classes in Montreal. He has been known to collaborate with other
theatre activists internationally such as Augusto Boal, Andrew Boyd of
the Billionaires for Bush, Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen), Stephen
Duncombe, Larry Bogad, Kathryn Blume, Kurt Schneiderman, Jason C.
McLean, Gary St. Laurent, and many others.As the co-founder of the
Optative Theatrical Laboratories (OTL) King strives to revitalise
theatre as an agent for social change through experimental practice,
critical theory, and sustained performance. The OTL designs
interconnected theatrical campaigns such as Car Stories, that target
instances of oppression, and employs a diversity of cutting-edge
activist performance techniques: culture-jamming, Viral Theatre,
Sousveillance Theatre, meme-warfare, Electronic Disturbance Theater,
and Global Invisible Theatre, to name a few.In 2006, King took issue
with racism inherent in what has been called "Canada’s First Play"
â€" the 1606 The Theatre of Neptune (Le Théâtre de Neptune) by Marc
Lescarbot. OTL staged a counter-performance called "Sinking Neptune"
in Annapolis Royal on the day of the "400th Theatre Anniversary"
(November 14, 2006), in order to protest the original.
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