29. NATHAN-THOMAS PRONYSHYN
Information acquired: 2025
NATHAN-THOMAS PRONYSHYN is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled Theatre for Young Audiences in Canada: Centering the Margins. NATHAN-THOMAS PRONYSHYN published this work as part of a team: Pronyshyn, Nathan Thomas. Here is a description of this work: The,,tre for Young Audiences (TYA) dwells in the margins of professional theatre production, theatre history, and contemporary discourse about theatre at large. Within Canada, such marginalization is pronounced, where scholars have only recently begun to examine TYA in the national context. Through my research and from my professional experience as a former artistic leader in TYA, I have identified a gap that has left many of the defining voices that shape the sector absent from scholarship. Similarly, I have suspected that many practitioners in TYA in Canada do not frequently tap into what little scholarship exists in the field. Drawing upon interviews with the artistic leaders of eleven of Canada's most prominent TYA companies in combination with my findings from a literature review, this thesis offers insight about the values and views of artistic leaders, the material, practical,.