Graham McMonagle

 Graham McMonagle is an award-winning interdisciplinary production designer, performer, educator, and historian. Working in a range of styles from ballet (performance and design), to text-based theatre from the classic canon, music-theatre (opera, dance and musicals), and inter-disciplinary creation pieces, their work has received national and international recognition. Recent collaborators include Pacific Opera Victoria, Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Crimson Coast Dance, UVic Phoenix Theatre, Canadian Pacific Ballet, Columbus Dance Theatre, Opera Columbus, and Ohio State University. Awarded an MFA Theatre Design (UVic) in 2017, they were sessional instructor there in 2018. Graham is currently a PhD Theatre History candidate at the University of Victoria. Their current research, “How Does the Paper Ballerina Dance,” focuses on nineteenth-century ballet and design, and asks questions about the commodified production and reproduction of performance images.