Andrew Houston

Andrew Houston is the Views & Reviews Editor of the Canadian Theatre Review. In 2002, he and scenographer Kathleen Irwin started Knowhere Productions, a performance company that had its debut with a multi-disciplinary, site-specific performance in a disused wing of the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn, entitled The Weyburn Project. The company has since mounted several large-scale site-specific works, including Crossfiring / Mama Wetotan, a performance and installation which took place at the Claybank historical brick plant in southwestern Saskatchewan in 2006 and will be chronicled in a book to be published by the Canadian Plains Research Centre in the spring of 2009.

Andy is a faculty member of the Department of Drama, Speech Communication and Digital Arts at the University of Waterloo. He is a participating artist-researcher in Warmer, a multidisciplinary project examining the effects of global warming on various communities in southern Ontario, and he has recently been awarded funding from the Ontario Arts Council to pursue this research.