Nina Lee Aquino
Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Actor Theatre Person
Nina Lee Aquino is a director, dramaturge, playwright, artistic director of fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company and the artistic producer of Factory Theatre’s CrossCurrents Festival. Other credits include awards for directing (Ken McDougall Award 2004, Canada Council John Hirsch Prize 2008), and Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for outstanding direction (Singkil, fu-GEN Theatre Company 2007; People Power, Carlos Bulosan Theatre 2008). Nina co-wrote Miss Orient(ed) (produced by Carlos Bulosan Theatre) and her monologues have been published in Beyond the Pale (Yvette Nolan, ed.) and She Speaks (Judith Thompson, ed.). She currently resides in Toronto with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Eponine.