Jenn Boulay

Jenn Boulay is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity. Her SSHRC funded MA Project maps D/deaf and Disability Arts scene in Montréal, Québec, and seeks to examine the barriers faced by the D/deaf and disability arts community. By mapping the terrain of D/deaf in Disability Arts in Montréal, she hopes to understand how disabled artists across Canada can better network and share resources and practices.

Jenn’s other research interests include D/deaf and disability arts, theatre, theatrical clown, creating accessibility of theatre and performance for both performers and audiences, performance of aesthetic sport (gymnastics), and sound studies. You can find her work published in Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, Feminist Space Camp Magazine, Theatre Research in Canada and Canadian Theatre Review, and UC Magazine. And she is an editor of Knots.

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Works: 

Selected Publications

• Boulay, Jenn. “Disability Theatre in Canada: Working Together and Closing the gaps in the East.” Canadian Theatre Review (CTR), 2022.
• Boulay, Jenn. “I am Magnificently Ugly.” Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 5, no.1, 2020, pp. 50-57, 
• Boulay, Jenn, et al. “Manifesting the Future.” Theatre Research in Canada (TRiC), vol. 41, no. 2, 2020, pp. 278-282
• Boulay, Jenn. “The World is On Fire: Disability Justice is my Strength.” Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 2021, pp. 68-75.
• Boulay, Jenn. “Transhumanizing Disabled Embodiment: Should we Perfect the Resources/Tools we Already Have?” Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 109-116, 

Publications, Editor

• Boulay, Jenn, et al., editors. Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2023. (In Progress).
• Boulay, Jenn, et al., editors. Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 2021.

Selected Performance/Playwriting/Film Credits

• Performer/Writer Stories of Disabled Youth
• Performer/Writer New Music Festival (U of T)
• Performer/Writer Toronto Fringe: Youth Takeover
• Performer/Writer Paprika Festival
• Performer/Writer Project Disruption Final Showcase
• Writer AMY Project Playwright in Residence/Staged Reading
• Performer/Writer Toronto Fringe: Youth Night
• Performer/Writer Paprika Festival
• Writer Words with a Zed Festival
• Performer Festival for Original Theatre (FOOT)
• Performer/Writer Toronto Fringe: Kids Fringe
• Performer/Writer Canadian Stage Workshop Performance
• Performer/Writer SummerWorks Performance Festival
• Selected Multi-Media and Film Credits
• Multi-Media Artist Independent Project: I am ‘Magnificently Ugly’
• Multi-Media Artist Stories of Disabled Youth
• Multi-Media Artist Atlantic Presenters Association
• Multi-Media Artist Independent Project
• Filmmaker/Writer Scarborough Arts Film Festival