Natasha Mytnowych
Artistic Director
Theatre Revolve

Natasha is an award-winning playwright, director and designer. She most recently received the inaugural Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist and was nominated for the Ontario Arts Council’s John Hirsch Award for Emerging Directors. She is currently Artistic Director for Theatre Revolve and Company Theatre Crisis, and the Company Manager and Executive Assistant to the Artistic Producer at the Canadian Stage Company. She was the Artistic Producer for the Paprika Festival from 2004 – 2007, Producer for the 26th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Associate Producer for the 2006 AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival, Artistic Associate for Nightwood Theatre, as well as Associate Festival Director for 2005 Groundswell Festival, Associate Festival Director 2004 and Assistant Festival Director 2003.  She initiated and facilitated Nightwood’s Emerging Actor Program, and was the Assistant Festival Director for the 2004 Hysteria: A Festival of Women for Nightwood Theatre/Buddies in Bad Times’ Theatre (Assistant Festival Director 2003).  She was the Under-21 Associate Director for the 2003 Rhubarb! Festival for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. 

Recent directing projects include Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days (Volcano/LMDA) and The Russian Play at Harbourfront Centre and the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.  She has directed new works for Resurgence Theatre Company (Discovering Romeo by Anthony Leo), Alumnae Theatre (Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter), The Wrecking Ball (NGO by Hannah Moscovitch) the Hysteria Festival (Girl Power Schopenhauer (opera) by Alexis Diamond/Nicholas Gilbert, Recess by Corrina Hodgson; curator for Saucy:  Girls with Smart Mouths; co-curator for BaBoom! F*cking Good Fashion), Nightwood Theatre (Horse Latitudes by Nicola Harwood; Three Fingered Jack and The Legend of Joaquin Murieta by Marilo Nunez; Alice by Carly Spencer; Pussy by Jane Haddad; Pop My Cherry by Melinda Mattos), Project Just Being (The End is No Longer Near by Mark Andrada), written and directed new works for the Toronto Fringe Festival (velo_city), the Paprika Festival (How the Fish See the Stars, binary), the U of T Drama Festival (metam and wreck’d), and written new works for the Rhubarb! Festival (Aperture), Tarragon’s Spring Arts Fair (parallaxe/ellpisen and the SummerWorks Theatre Festival, (Fly, Ungeziefer [vermin]), where her adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis Ungeziefer [vermin] debuted to critical acclaim and sold out houses in 2003. Upcoming projects include In Full Light and I Think of You, Erendira in the Toronto SummerWorks Festival, and The Russian Play at Factory Theatre in 2008.

Recent assistant directing credits include traveling to Denmark to assistant direct Nightwood Theatre’s The Danish Play at Aveny-T in Copenhagen, as well as at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Edmonton, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, as well as assisting Eda Holmes on Claudia Dey’s Trout Stanley at Factory Theatre and Kate Lynch on a production of Cymbeline at the University of Toronto.  Other assistant directing credits include Therac 25 (Factory Theatre), The Kafka in Love (World Stage/Autumn Leaf Performance), Absolutely Chekhov and The Play About the Baby (Soulpepper Theatre Company), BeBe (Nightwood Theatre/Rhubarb), I Am Yours (Equity Showcase Theatre), Othello (Shakespeare in the Rough) and the Buncha Young Artists…Festival (Theatre Direct Canada).  Natasha has participated in numerous Director’s Laboratories and Playwriting Units, including: the World Stage Director’s Laboratory (with John Barton, Kama Ginkas, Mike Alfreds and Christopher Newton); several Soulpepper’s Directing MasterClasses, working with Joseph Ziegler, Daniel Brooks and Helena Kaut-Howson; the Tapestry New Opera/Equity Showcase Music Directors/Stage Directors New Opera Works Laboratory; the Rhubarb! Festival Director's Lab; the Hart House Playwrights Unit; Tarragon Theatre's Young Playwrights Unit; and has been involved as a dramaturge in Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Playwrights Unit for the past three years. 

Natasha has received the Robert Gill Award for Outstanding Direction (2004), the Helen Gardiner Phelan Scholarship (2004), at the University of Toronto, the Mira Friedlander Award for Extraordinary Accomplishment for Playwriting, Direction and Design, (2001) through the Sears Drama Festival.  She was the winner of the Tarragon Theatre’s 20-Under-20s Playwriting Competition (2002).  Natasha sits on the Board of Directors for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the Laidlaw Foundation’s Arts Advisory, The Sears Drama Festival’s Scholarship and Awards Board of Directors, Theatre Direct Canada’s Artistic Advisory and Factory Theatre’s Education Advisory.  She is an Honours Graduate of High Distinction of the University of Toronto.