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1973-2001 (Creation)
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- Zylin, Svetlana
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23 m of textual and other materials
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Born in Belgium in 1948 of Russian immigrants, she moved with her family (father, mother, and two siblings) to Manitoba in 1954. Zylin received a BA from the University of Manitoba (1968) and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. While in Vancouver, she began what would be a life-long cause: getting women involved in all aspects of Canadian theatre. In 1972, she founded the Women's Theatre Cooperative. She has directed performances at many professional theatre companies including Company of Sirens, Nightwood Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Factory Theatre Lab. From 1988 to 1991, she served as Artistic Director of the Playwrights Workshop of Montreal.
As a playwright she wrote or co-wrote a number of successful plays including Djuna: What of the Night (1991, co-created by Zylin and Cynthia Grant), and The Destruction of Eve (1998, written by Zylin with music and lyrics by Connie Kaldor) which is a feminist musical of the Bible’s female characters. Both of these productions were staged by the Company of Sirens.
Her last position, a three-year contract as the theatre and dance touring officer for the Manitoba Arts Council, was cut short by her death in 2002.
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Fonds consists of scripts, reviews and articles, correspondence, photographs and other material relating to her life and career as an artistic director, dramaturge, producer, playwright, performer and administrator, 1973-2001.