Announcing our Accessibility Project Coordinator, April Hubbard

Photo by Emily Invidia [IMAGE DESCRIPTION – April, a light-skinned white woman with short auburn hair, sits in her black manual wheelchair. She wears glasses & a flowing gold satin gown. The light highlights the definition of her bare arms. Her wheelchair sits diagonal to the camera to show gold fabric draped through the spokes of her wheelchair. Her upper body faces the camera, one arm wraps around the back of her seat, gripping the frame of her backrest while the other is draped on her lap. Her legs are crossed, her bare feet show beneath the hem of her skirt. The pose accentuates the strong curves of her body. April looks directly into the camera with the mysterious hint of a smile on her lips. Columns of purple and violet light frame her against a black backdrop.]

April Hubbard began her career as an actor before developing her skills as a director, producer, board member, accessibility advisor and arts administrator after entering the world of disability and finding there was no longer a space for her on stage. As the Chair of the Halifax Fringe Festival, she provides a platform for others excluded from mainstream performance.

In 2019, April became a professional trapeze artist and acrobat when she began performing with LEGacy Circus. She cofounded disabilityX Halifax, a storytelling event created and led by people with disabilities and is currently working with Drifting Amber Collective to remove barriers to access in the arts and to support people with unseen bodies & unheard voices to claim creative control.

She is an outspoken advocate whose focus is to empower people with disabilities to discover their voice and to be leaders in designing the society in which they wish to live. April proudly shows her body without hiding its differences, which serves to both challenge assumptions and to normalize the presence of people with disabilities in our everyday world.

We are huge fans of April and couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with her on this important project!

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Please join us in welcoming Kat McCormack as Eastern Front's new Artistic Director

Photo by fussyvirgo [IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A white woman with short, curly brown hair caught mid-laugh smiles broadly against a gray-shingled wall dappled with sunlight. She wears a button-up short-sleeved collared dress with a necklace of three dainty chains across her chest. She seems happy and approachable.]

​A Merritt-nominated performer and five-time winner of The Coast’s Best Theatre Actor Award, McCormack has co-created fifteen new Atlantic Canadian works with companies including Zuppa Theatre, Shakespeare by the Sea, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, and others. She has collaborated with EFT a number of times, including as the director, co-creator, and performer of The Perfection of Man at the 2013 Stages Festival and most recently on tiny, a co-production between Zuppa Theatre Co. and EFT.  

"I feel so strongly about the talent and creativity of Atlantic Canadian theatre artists, and am very much looking forward to facilitating and supporting the creation of new and exciting Atlantic Canadian work. There are many stories yet to be told."

We are so excited to work with Kat and share her vision for the company with you.

Read more in The Coast.