Rebecca Burton

Rebecca Burton is the Membership and Professional Contracts Manager at Playwrights Guild of Canada, where she also co-founded Equity in Theatre (EIT – www.equityintheatre.com), a now defunct initiative designed to redress the under-representation of women and other marginalized communities in the Canadian theatre industry (2014 – 2017). She is also the staff liaison for and helps spearhead PGC's Women Caucus and its EDI projects.

Rebecca is a sometimes theatre practitioner. She has experience working as an actor, collective creationist, director, dramaturg, puppeteer, stagehand, and technician.

Rebecca also works as an editor, educator, and researcher. She specializes in Canadian Feminist Theatre, and she has taught Canadian theatre, intro drama, theatre history, and women's literature at various universities in Ontario. She is the author of the benchmark report, “Adding It Up: The Status of Women in Canadian Theatre” (2006), she co-edited the Winter 2016 edition of Canadian Theatre Review, she is the editor of "Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) 10-Minute Plays" (Playwrights Canada Press; 2016, 2020), and she has published in various industry journals (alt.theatre, CTR, TRiC). Most recently, Rebecca's article “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Canadian Theatre Here and Now – Part 1: Playwrights Guild of Canada and Its Women's Caucus” earned Honourable Mention for the 2020 Richard Plant Award bestowed by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.

Rebecca has a BA in theatre and history from the University of Guelph, an MA in theatre from the University of Victoria, and she has PhD ABD status from the University of Toronto's Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.