An alumnus of the innovative STO Union theatre company has won the 2018 Pauline McGibbon Award.
Sarah Conn, who is currently the Artistic Associate with the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, received her prize Monday evening during the ceremony marking the annual Dora Mavor Moore awards ceremony in Toronto.
Before her job at the NAC, Conn was Artistic Producer with STO Union of Wakefield, Quebec where she was the winner of the 2016 Siminovitch Protégé Prize in Directing. Her colleague Nadia Ross won the Siminovitch theatre prize that year.
Sarah Conn
Conn’s recent production Trophy has been presented at major festivals in Canada and beyond, including at the Dublin Fringe Festival. She is a graduate of University of Ottawa in Theatre.
The McGibbon prize, which honours the former Ontario Lieutenant Governor for her support of the arts, was established in 1981. The recipient receives $7,000 and a medal designed by the artist Dora de Pédery-Hunt. It goes to an Ontario-resident professional artist in the early stages of their career. The award is cyclical: the first year of the three-year cycle, the award goes to a designer, the second year to a director, and the third year to a production artist.
