George Brown Polytechnic is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and other Indigenous peoples who have lived here over time. We are grateful to share this land as treaty people who learn, work and live in the community with each other.
Diana Tso
Professor
Biography
Diana Tso is a storyteller, theatre artist, playwright and artist in education. She’s a graduate of the University of Toronto in English Literature & of Ecole Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq in France. As artistic director of Red Snow Collective her theatre vision merges east & west storytelling art forms through music, movement & text. Her drama plays, Red Snow and Comfort bring to light the resilience of women in war, advocating justice and peace. Her Monkey Queen stories are a re-imagining of the monkey mythologies of the east from the perspective of the woman warrior. Her play Spring Moon, was inspired by the stories of grandmothers and youth, whom she worked with in the Toronto Chinese community who also performed this play, commissioned by Mixed Company Theatre. Her plays are available at www.playwrightguild.ca. Most recently she performed in Modern Times Stage Company’s The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Les Misérables and Stratford Festival’s 2017 season in Bakkhai and The Komagata Maru Incident.
Diana shares Birds of a Feather, a storytelling collective, with Rubena Sinha, which they co-founded in 2013 to gather professional and amateur tellers to celebrate community and cultures through speaking, singing and dancing our stories from across the world, from folktales to personal testimonies. We are our stories. Through them we can embrace life’s challenges, connect with others and feel compassion. Most recently Diana was with Rubena doing their duet storytelling of the Monkey Queen and the Monkey King tales at the 2019 Chennai Storytelling Festival in India.