Keiley, Jillian
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Jillian Keiley is an award-winning director from The Goulds, Newfoundland, Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre, and founding Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. Jillian has directed and taught across Canada and has worked internationally. She received her BFA in Theatre from York University and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Memorial University. She was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize for Directing in 2004, and is also a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ John Hirsch Prize. Jillian assumed her role as NAC English Theatre Artistic Director in August, 2012. Her recent productions include The Colony of Unrequited Dreams for Artistic Fraud, The Diary of Anne Frank for the Stratford Festival, and Twelfth Night as imagined by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop for the NAC. Upcoming: As You Like It for the Stratford Festival.