Kit Tough has been an Associate Artist with Arts4All since 2011. Kiersten is director and actor who studied acting at Dalhousie University. She has performed with Theatre New Brunswick, Mulgrave Road Theatre, Two Planks and a Passion, Live Bait Theatre and Eastern Front Theatre. She was a member of the acclaimed Halifax physical theatre company Zuppa Theatre Co. She has studied with Philippe Gaulier and Mump and Smoot. Since moving to Toronto she has created and performed Lear’s Shadow and Hellooo for The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival in Dufferin Grove Park, and co-created and performed in Stranger Theatre’s Hanging of Franciose Laurent, at Summerworks (2010) and the Blyth Festival (2011). She has been a lead artist at Arts4All since 2011. Kiersten was assistant director for Jumblies Theatre’s Like an Old Tale in 2011, and directed Arts4All’s I Was A Brave Child, a multi-media celebration of a community radio play in 2013. Kiersten performed Arts4All’s Down in the Deeps and is directing Arts4All's upcoming parade, Here Is My Friend!
Kit Tough, Lead Associate Artist
Toronto is home to a large indigenous population including residential school survivors and intergenerational family members who have been impacted by the history and legacy of the residential school system. The sacred land on which we stand has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.
