Rebecca Low

Becky Low is a PhD student in the Department of Theatre at University of Victoria. Her research deals with how artists and arts workers experience, and make sense of, the realities of working in Canadian professional theatre.

Prior to beginning her studies at UVic, Becky spent a decade as a theatre producer and arts administrator, primarily working in Vancouver. She holds a BA in theatre from University of Alberta, and an MA in Comparative Media Arts from SFU’s School of Contemporary Arts. Becky’s M.A. research focused on the performative and structural interplay of gender and race in Canadian professional theatre.

Favourite past projects include producing the world premiere of Hiro Kanagawa’s Governor General Award winning Indian Arm with Rumble Theatre, producing Pi Theatre’s Jessie Award winning Terminus by Mark O’Rowe, acting as Stage Manager for many iterations of Bollywood sketch comedy group I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter Chicken, an undergraduate production of The Visit, and a contemporary dance piece in Slough, UK exploring movement in zero gravity where she had the opportunity to teach modern dancers how to synchronized swim.

Becky has sat on the Boards of Vancouver Creative Space Society, and Playwrights’ Theatre Centre, and is currently the Board Treasurer of Delinquent Theatre. Originally from Treaty 7 territory, Becky now lives with her husband and their two young children in East Vancouver on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She likes to sew and go swimming.

Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs