Danielle Irvine

Danielle Irvine is an award-winning Newfoundland-based theatre director who has worked across Canada for over 20 years. Highlights of her career include six years teaching at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, assistant directing at the Stratford Festival of Canada for two seasons (including being the first director to study in their Birmingham Conservatory); and winning the Canada Council for the Arts prestigious John Hirsch Prize for Directing and the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Protégée Prize under Jillian Keiley. Along with her current position as Artistic Director for Perchance Theatre, Danielle has co-founded two other successful theatre companies and is also the current founding artistic director of SweetlineTheatre. She has served on the boards of many arts organizations, including Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and the Resource Centre for the Arts. Danielle has spent many years working in television and movie casting, including CBC’s Republic of Doyle and, more recently, for the Netflix series Frontier.