Heather Fitzsimmons Frey

Heather’s research is collaborative, interdisciplinary and engaged with community. MacEwan student research assistants support her Young People are the Future project concerning youth performance and engagement in living history museums. Through that project, she partners with the City of Edmonton Archives, Calgary’s Heritage Park, Fort Edmonton Park and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. She also hires student research assistants for Elm Tree Theatre, which explores and makes immersive theatre for early years (ages 1 to 5). She conducts Elm Tree Theatre creation research with Travis Hatt (Theatre Production), collaborating with Early Learning at MacEwan (ELM), MacEwan Sport and Wellness and is currently advised by Nancy Thomas (Early Childhood Curriculum Studies). Her research is published in journals that include Canadian Theatre Review , Critical Stages , Girlhood Studies , Oxford Review of Education , Performance Matters , Research in Drama Education , Theatre Research in Canada , Theatre Research International and numerous books including her co-authored monograph Youthsites: Histories of Creativity, Care, and Learning in the City (Oxford University Press 2023, with Stuart Poyntz and Julian Sefton-Green) and her co-edited project Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education (Intellect, UK, 2023, with Nicola Hyland and James McKinnon). | Performance for, by and with young people; Theatre for young audiences; Youth arts organizations; Performance-based historiography

Heather Fitzsimmons Frey is Department Chair | Associate Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include Heather’s research is collaborative, interdisciplinary and engaged with community. MacEwan student research assistants support her Young People are the Future project concerning youth performance and engagement in living history museums. Through that project, she partners with the City of Edmonton Archives, Calgary’s Heritage Park, Fort Edmonton Park and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. She also hires student research assistants for Elm Tree Theatre, which explores and makes immersive theatre for early years (ages 1 to 5). She conducts Elm Tree Theatre creation research with Travis Hatt (Theatre Production), collaborating with Early Learning at MacEwan (ELM), MacEwan Sport and Wellne. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.