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Eastern Front Theatre
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- EFT
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Description area
Dates of existence
1993 -
History
Eastern Front Theatre (EFT) was founded in 1993 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, by Gay Hauser, Wendy Lill and Mary Vingoe to support the work of Atlantic Canadian playwrights. From 1999-2009 Eastern Front Theatre was the resident theatre company at Alderney Landing. Between 2009-2021 Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Stage was its Halifax performance venue before it moved backed to Alderney Landing in 2021.
The company has produced or presented over 200 original Canadian plays, including 32 world premieres, and received four Governor General Award nominations, one Nova Scotia Masterworks nomination, and 16 Robert Merritt Awards (out of 68 nominations).
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Relationships area
Related entity
Vingoe, Mary (1957-)
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Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
1993
Description of relationship
Mary Vingoe was a co-founder of Eastern Front Theatre. In In 2002 she directed a production of The Drawer Boy with EFT for which she was nominated for a Merritt Award for Outstanding Direction.
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Lill, Wendy (1950 -)
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Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
1993
Description of relationship
Wendy Lill was a co-founder of Eastern Front Theatre.