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LUCIANO IOGNA
YOUTH THEATRE RELATED
www.lucianoiogna.com
(416) 530-1863 / lucjogna@gmail.com
• B.A. Film and Drama, Queen's University, Kingston
• Member: Theatre Ontario Talent Bank • Member: ITO • non Equity & ACTRA
THEATRE - Writing For Young Audiences
WRITER WHAT IF…?
Mixed Company (TYA), Toronto & Ontario High School Tour. Director: Simon Malbogat
WRITER CRIMES OF DIFFERENCE
TDSB High School Drama Co-Op Program, Toronto Director: Simon Malbogat
WRITER SHATTERED DREAMS
Cobblestone Youth Theatre (TYA), Toronto. Director: Simon Malbogat
WRITER RUNAWAY DREAMS
Cobblestone Youth Theatre (TYA), Toronto. Director: Simon Malbogat
WRITER SHOWDOWN
Mixed Company (TYA), Metro Toronto High School Tour. Director: Simon Malbogat
(2002 Dora Award Nomination: Outstanding Production - Theatre For Young Audiences)
WRITER HOW CAN YOU TELL?
Mixed Company (TYA), Metro Toronto High School Tour. Director: Simon Malbogat
(2001 Dora Award Nominee: Outstanding Production - Theatre For Young Audiences)
CπOK, Kyiv, Ukraine. Director: Olga Kunitska
WRITER THE 10% REALITY
Mixed Company (TYA), Toronto & Ontario High School Tour. Director: Simon Malbogat
WRITER THE FIRST RESORT
Mixed Company (TYA), Metro Toronto High School Tour. Director: Simon Malbogat
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Turkey. Director: Nihal Kuyumcu
WRITER CINDERELLA 2001
Mixed Company (TYA), Toronto. Director: Simon Malbogat
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Turkey. Director: Nihal Kuyumcu
THEATRE - Directing For Young Audiences
WRITER & DIRECTOR KOZLARI PAYLAŞMAK (L. Iogna)
Eskişehir Şehir Tiyatro, Turkey. Artistic Director: Sinan Demirer (translation: Ş.Özen & Ç. Altuğ)
CO-DIRECTR & FACILITATOR BULLYING: A Tradition (Collective)
Ryan School, Ghaziabad, India. Co-Director & Facilitator: S. Malbogat
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE THE JOURNEY & LIFE GOES ON (Collectives)
SERVE Canada (TYA), Toronto.
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE BLACKANDWHITE (B. Usher & J. Ashong)
BamBoom Productions (TYA), Metro Toronto School Tour. Producer: B. Usher
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE GOOD SON, BAD SON, SONUVABITCH (Collective)
Cobblestone Youth Theatre (TYA), Toronto Tour. Artistic Director: Simon Malbogat
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE SPARE CHANGES (Collective)
Second Look Community Arts (TYA), Toronto. Executive Director: J. Salverson
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (Collective)
Second Look Community Arts (TYA), Toronto. Executive Director: J. Salverson
DIRECTOR BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE (J. Salverson & P. Henderson)
Prairie Theatre Exchange (TYA), Winnipeg. Artistic Director: Kim McKaw
DIRECTOR ANDROCLES AND THE LION (A. Harris)
Citadel Children's Theatre (TYA), Edmonton. Artistic Director: Frank Norris
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN RESIDENCE
Citadel on Wheels/Wings School Touring Co. (TYA), Alberta & Canada High Arctic.
Citadel Children's Theatre (TYA), Edmonton. Artistic Director: Frank Norris
Theatre Workshop Facilitation With Youth (Selected)
Date Rape and Sexual Assault
Facilitated the Sheatre Forum Theatre tour of FAR FROM THE HEART through Central Ontario and Toronto
area high schools in tandem with community organized facilitation sessions after each performance. Each
team of facilitators consisted of an adult and trained youth from the school or region. Open discussions
were processed with support material around issues of peer pressure ad date rape.
Peer Pressures (Part 1)
Co-facilitated a week-long workshop in Ukraine with youth and peer counselors on issues around smoking
cessation, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and sexually transmitted diseases and their perpetuation through peer
pressure. With Simon Malbogat (Artistic Director of Mixed Company Theatre), taught the basics of Forum
Theatre techniques to name and demonstrate forms of peer pressure during the Youth Summer Program
outside of Kiev (Kyiv) in Ukraine. Program was joint sponsorship between the Canadian Society for
International Health and the Youth For Health - Ukraine-Canada Project.
Peer Pressures (Parts 2 and 3)
These were the continuation of the 2000 workshop. Participants in the course were Youth Counselors and
youth peers who were taught practical and alternative methods of communication and presentation around
the issues of smoking, alcohol/drug abuse, and STD's/AIDS and their prevention. We trained participants
to use theatre as an educational tool to develop and script/write scenarios for specific topics and how to
facilitate Forum Theatre presentations with youth audiences within their respective communities.
Youth Employment
Facilitated a series of workshops with youth organizations (SERVE Canada and Upward Motion) using
Theatre techniques in the examination of the issues which specifically affected them - youth employment.
Theatre methodologies were blended with communication exercises to aid participants in understanding
their problems and to better articulate the issues to various communities. Both organizations created
theatrical productions for educating their peers in high schools and colleges, and also presented variations
of their work to Non Government Organizations and private industry.
A.I.D.S. Awareness
Worked and researched with Toronto health agencies and Public Health Nurses in the Toronto Secondary
School Board to adapt material for an interactive play for youth to be presented in Toronto area High
Schools. Students would role-play for each other in situations that challenged persistent attitudes and
beliefs around the spread of H.I.V. / A.I.D.S. and other negative-life perspectives. ACTING AGAINST AIDS
has also been adapted and performed in a university or college versions for older youth in altered
situations and attitudes. This play is still part of Mixed Company Theatre's repertoire (in 1998 I wrote a
new play for this project entitled H.I.V. TOOLBOX ; my new play of this ongoing project written in 2002 is
entitled HOW CAN YOU TELL? ).
Alcohol and Peer-Pressure
Several students from 3 different Toronto area High Schools got together for two workshops to brainstorm
and share experiences and perceptions about peer-pressure and how it relates to choices, alcohol and other
issues (including violence and abuse). Adapted some of this material to create Mixed Company's
production of FROM BEER TO ETERNITY, an interactive show for High Schools.
Hemophilia and HIV
A weekend retreat with HIV+ hemophiliac youth and their siblings at Camp Kandalore (Northern Ontario),
sponsored by Hemophilia Ontario. With Patty Jarvis, co-facilitated workshops with 14 youth from across
Ontario, aged 10 to 24. Built trust within the participants using a variety of sociometry and theatre-based
games and exercises which then allowed the group to openly discuss and disclose sensitive issues from
family dynamics to coping with stress.
Racism and Sexism in Schools
Worked with students from Ursula Franklin Academy (Brockton H.S.), and various schools within the
Toronto School Board. Used theatre techniques to initiate dialogue between students around different
forms of discrimination from many levels within the school system. Eventually gathered material for the
creation of the Company of Sirens production of talkin' 'bout...OUR GENERATION , a High School
interactive show which toured schools in southern Ontario from March to May 1992 (remounted in the
Spring and Fall of 1993 and again in 1995).
FILM
CO-WRITER & PERFORMER CONTACT: VIDEO MAGAZINE (R. Turnbull & L. Iogna)
Ontario Arts Council, Touring Office. Director: Ross Turnbull
DIRECTOR HEARTBEAT - Music Video (B. Usher)
BamBoom Productions. Executive Producer: Bill Usher
DIRECTOR ARE THE BIRDS IN CANADA THE SAME? (J. Salverson)
The Jesuit Centre For Social Faith and Justice. Executive Producer: Colin MacAdam
WRITER & PERFORMER WHAT IS ACCOMMODATION? (Field, Iogna, Payne, Tingling)
Ministry of Labour. Executive Producer: Diane Bickers. Director: John Marsolet
DIRECTOR WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (Collective)
Second Look Community Arts. Executive Producer: J. Richard Campbell
1991 ITVA Award of Merit, Canada.
1992 International Educational Film and Video Festival Award, Oakland, California.
SCRIPT CONSULTANT THE HEART IS THE HUNTER (P. Morita)
Atlantis Films & MGM Television. Director: Paul Almond
CO-DIRECTOR STRANGE CHANGES (K. H. Hawryliw & R. Molnar)
Standard Visual. Executive Producer & Co-Director: Kenneth H. Hawryliw
WRITER, DIRECTOR & EDITOR NUTS! & TYPE! & PHONE
Queen's University, Kingston. Department of Film Studies: 3 short student films
PUBLICATIONS
CO-AUTHOR Performance and Civic Engagement (L.Iogna & S. Malbogat)
DRAMATIC ACTION: Community Engaged Theatre in Canada & Beyond (e-Magazine)
Canada. April 2006 (ed. Dale Hamilton)
CO-AUTHOR HAYDi ÇOCUKLAR SAHNEYE (Children On The Stage) (N. Kuyumcu & L. Iogna)
Ministry of Culture (Book), Turkey. 2001
CO-AUTHOR Theatre Of The Oppressed Techniques in (N. Kuyumcu & L. Iogna)
Contemporary Children's Theatre
TiYATRO YAPIM (Magazine), Turkey. January 2000
AUTHOR COLLABORATION CAVEAT
TRANSMISSIONS (Magazine), Volume: II Number: 3 Winter 1999
AUTHOR TalentPro™ ForAgents: A User's Guide
Douglas F. Brown Software Services Inc. (Book). 1998
AWARDS
2011 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To give a series of character-exploration workshops for Classical Theatre at the Festival Shakespeare
in Tournon-sur-Rhône, France.
2010 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To give a presentation and attend the performance of my Forum Theatre play MIXED MESSAGES
by Mixed Company Theatre at the World Forum Theatre Festival in Vienna and Graz, Austria.
2009 SHINING STAR AWARD
Received the inaugural Shining Star Award for my dedicated years of work in using theatre and arts
to make a positive change in communities and society.
2007 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To give Forum Theatre workshop and presentation at the 8th International Festival of Children
Performing Arts in Delhi, India.
2005 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To attend International Theatre of the Oppressed conference in Barcelona, Spain and to attend and
give Forum Theatre workshop at 1st Ankara International Children's Theatre Festival, Turkey.
2004 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To give Forum Theatre presentation at Muktadhara: A Forum Theatre Festival in Kolkata, India.
2002 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To speak and give workshops at the 9th Biennial Ankara International Creative Drama Seminar.
2000 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To teach Forum and Legislative Theatre methodology workshops in Turkey, Ukraine & Italy.
1999 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To teach Forum Theatre techniques and Play Development workshops in Turkey.
1998 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Travel Grant
To attend the Turkish premier and international tour of Mixed Company Theatre's production of
my Forum Theatre play THE FAMILY and to teach Play Development workshops.
1996 ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL Playwright In Residence Grant
To work with Simon Malbogat of Mixed Company on the development of my full-length play
THE STATE OF PERFECTION.
1992 GREAT CANADIAN THEATRE CO. Playwright Recommender Grant
To work with Lib Spry and develop our concept play CLASS ACT. Artistic Director: Stephen Bush.
1983 ALBERTA ARTS COUNCIL Professional Development Grant
To study concepts of Artistic Directorship and Theatre Management at the Citadel Theatre.
1982 STERLING AWARD Edmonton Professional Theatre Nomination for Best Lighting Design
Workshop West production of HOOKING FOR PARADISE (S. Stearn). Director: Gerry Potter.
STERLING AWARD Edmonton Professional Theatre Nomination for Best Sound Design
StageWest production of MORS DRACULA (W. Graves). Director: William Fisher.
1980 STERLING AWARD Edmonton Professional Theatre Nomination for Best Lighting Design
Theatre 3 production of OTHERWISE ENGAGED (S. Gray). Director: Keith Digby.
1976 QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY Drama Department Award
Best Student-Directed Production of the Year: MISS JULIE (A. Strindberg).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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10 ST Mary Street Suite. 501
Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1P9
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