Sarah Struthers – Curriculum Vitae
DESIGN
Theatre
(upcoming)
2024 Tiresias, costume designer. Sick + Twisted Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
2023 Morchella esculenta: The Common Morel, writer, costume design, and performance. Botany in Motion Arts Festival, St. Norbert, MB
2022 Kateryna & Havrylo, costume design and performance. Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Winnipeg, MB
Film
2024 “Untitled”, wardrobe supervisor. 48 Hour Film Festival, OurToba, Winnipeg, MB
2022 “Cancelled” (web series), art department and set decoration. Wookey Films, Winnipeg, MB
Runway
2023 “Festivalaganza”, Bizarre Winter Creature costume design. Festival de Voyageur + Kilusan Productions
2022 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Bizarre Category. Patio 340 + Kilusan Productions
THEATRE MAKING
2023 The Human Test, writer, producer, director, set + costume design, and performance. Colin Jackson Studio Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, MB
Flourish, writer, set and props design, and performance. Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2021 within and without, creation and performance. University of Winnipeg, MB
DANCE
2023 New Dance Monthly + STRUTHERS, with performer Ian Mozdzen. Crescent Fort Rouge Church, Winnipeg, MB
2022 People Part, dancer. Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
In the Dark, performance with Weather Parade Dance Theatre. Gord Dong Park and Stephen Juba Park, Winnipeg, MB
Silent…Lab Dance/People En Masse, performance. Yewtopia, Winnipeg, MB
EXHIBITIONS, COLLABORATIONS + GROUP
Visual Art
2024 Commissioned to design the cover for “The Urban Issue” of The Uniter
Invited to create a collage poster for Theatre Projects Manitoba’s “A Birthday Party for Ghosts”
2023 Pieced Together, a series of collage-paintings with Zanifa Rasool. Millenium Library, Winnipeg, MB
Film
2023 within and without, Skylines Film and Dance Digital Festival
2022 within and without, with sound design by Ben Robinson Hoppa. Dave Barber Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB
TEACHING/WORKSHOPS
2024 Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Tetris, Workshop Lead
Manitoba Theatre for Young People, The Problem with Pink, Workshop Lead
2022-Current Teacher/Teaching Assistant at Manitoba Theatre for Young People
Teaching Assistant at The University of Winnipeg
MENTORSHIPS
2024 Eric Rose, National Mentorship Program, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
2023 Alex Elliott, Professional Mentorship Program, Creative Manitoba
2022 Natalie Baird + Toby Gillies, Screen Dance Mentorship Residency, Young Lungs Dance Exchange + Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2023 Introduction to the Costume Department with Heather Neale, Film Training Manitoba
Business Practices for Independent Contractors, Lisa Li + Prairie Theatre Exchange
Collaborative Story Creation, Theatre Projects Manitoba + Strange Victory Performance
PAPILLON: The Process, Helen Simard + The In/On/Out Festival, Winnipeg, MB
LEAD National Summit, National Ballet School of Canada, Toronto, ON
2022 Grant Writing with Sarah Crawley, Creative Manitoba + MAWA
Viewpoints and Staging, Thomas Morgan Jones + Prairie Theatre Exchange
Intro to Drama Therapy, Leah Borchert + Prairie Theatre Exchange
Home/Body, Home/Land, Jaime Black + Young Lungs Dance Exchange
Memoir & Movement, Sara Porter + Rachel Browne Theatre
LEAD Winnipeg, Royal Winnipeg Ballet + National Ballet School of Canada
GRANTING HISTORY
2023 Individual Artist Grant - Canada Council for the Arts
Individual Artist Grant – Winnipeg Arts Council
AWARDS + NOMINATIONS
2022 Kateryna & Havrylo, Nomination for the Harry S. Rintoul Award
2021 Sharon Greening Award in Theatre and Film, The University of Winnipeg
2018-2021 Student of Distinction, Dean’s Honour List, The University of Winnipeg
EDUCATION
2022 BA in Theatre and Film, The University of Winnipeg, MB
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Board Member - Young Lungs Dance Exchange
Weekly Volunteer - Art City