Wesley Colford

Preferred Name: Wesley J. Colford

Pronouns: They/Them

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Website: https://www.highlandartstheatre.com/


Photographer: Meghan Tansey Whitton

Wesley J. Colford is a Dora and Robert Merritt Theatre Award Nominated playwright and theatre artist from Cape Breton who currently resides in Sydney, NS where they operate as the inaugural Artistic & Executive Director of the Highland Arts Theatre (or HAT). Their plays have been produced in three provinces and have won national awards, been published, and adapted for film. They have won numerous awards including the 2016 Jack Yazer Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal. They were recently honoured as one of the Globe & Mail’s “Canadian Arts Heroes of 2020” for their work developing the HAT’s bold new funding model, Radical Access. Favourite works include: The Wakowski Brothers, Mature Young Adults, Heart of Steel, and The Beloved.

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