RECENT WORK

Nina Arsenault

multi-disciplinary artist

**THEATRE**

The Silicone Diaries (performer, creator)
The Saint John Theatre Company, New Brunswick, 2008
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 2009
Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, 2010
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 2010
(return engagement)
Theatre Lachapelle, Montreal, 2010
(nominated for Prix de La Critiques by the Association of Quebec Theatre Critics)
The Magnetic North Theatre Festival -Canada’s Premiere Festival of Contemporary Performance in English, Ottawa, 2011
The East Vancouver Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 2012

I was Barbie (performer, creator)
We’re Funny That Way -The Original Queer Comedy Festival, Toronto, 2009
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s Pride Festival, Toronto, 2009
The Bus Stop Theatre’s Queer Acts, Halifax, 2009
PSi 16 (Performance Studies International), Toronto, 2010
Summerworks Theatre Festival, Toronto, 2010
Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, 2011

Queer Art Diva: an evening of selected monologues, writing and visual art (performer, creator)
ML Theatre, University of Waterloo, 2011
The Saint John Theatre Company, New Brunswick, 2012

**VIDEO**

Plane of Immanence (co-created with Jordan Tannahill)
Pleasure Dome, New Toronto Works, 2012

**SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS**

Metaphysical Object
Moses Znaimer’s Ideacity, June, 2010

**PUBLICATIONS**

A Manifesto of Living Self-portraiture
The Canadian Theatre Review, Spring, 2012

Landscape with Yukon and Unnatural Beauty
in TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: an Unreasonable Body of Work
Edited by Judith Rudakoff, published by Intellect Books, 2012

The Silicone Diaries (performance text)
in TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: an Unreasonable Body of Work
Edited by Judith Rudakoff, published by Intellect Books, 2012

Without Pride I couldn’t be me
Now Magazine, 2011

Paying for Sex Changes is the least the gov’t can do
The National Post, 2008

**ARTIST TALKS**

York University
Theatre Dept, , Fall 2010, Spr 2011, Fall 2012
Visual Art Dept, Spr 2011
Ontario College of Art and Design
Visual Art, Spr 2011
Ryerson University
Theatre, Fall 2011
Fashion, Spr 2010, Spr 2009, Spr 2008
University of Toronto
Theatre, Fall 2011
Creative Writing, Fall 2012
University of Waterloo
Theatre, Fall 2011
Brock University
Theatre, Spr 2011, Fall 2011
The East Vancouver Cultural Centre
Young Artists Unit, Winter 2012

**POETRY READINGS**

I Live
Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, 2011
Mutual Readings at The Secret Handshake Gallery, Toronto, 2012

Landscape with Yukon and Unnatural Beauty
The Beautiful and The Damned -a night of poetry and cabaret, Toronto, 2012

**MODELLING/ MUSE/ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLABORATIONS**

I continue a process of photographing my body, something I have done at all stages of my physical and psychic metamorphoses, a collaborative practice with photographers and pornographers including Bruce LaBruce, Istvan Kantor, Neil Mota and inkedKenny.

**AWARDS**

The Unstoppable Award
from Toronto’s Mayor, the Honourable David Miller, and Pride Toronto
for an outstanding contribution to our society’s understanding of sex and gender and for embodying the theme of Pride 2007 –Unstoppable.

Prix de la Critiques nomination
from the Quebec Association of Theatre Critics
for Theatre Lachapelle’s production of The Silicone Diaries (co-production with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

Celebrating Canada, Excellence in the Arts
from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
for excellence in the arts and a profound contribution to human rights in Canada