Results Announcement
Deadline Date:
November 4, 2025
Advisors:
Balint, Susan E, Toronto
Coates, Eric, Stratford
Karry, Liam, Kingston
Kwan, Audrey, Toronto
Advisory panels are used to provide advice and help set priorities in many granting competitions at the Ontario Arts Council (OAC). Advisory panels do not make grant decisions. Officers make final grant recommendations to OAC’s CEO and board based on advisors’ comments, OAC priorities, the program budget and the number of applications to the program. In Years 2 and 3 of a multi-year cycle, requests are reviewed by the officer and not an advisory panel.
To safeguard the integrity of the peer assessment process, we do not allow anyone who has a direct conflict of interest with an application to serve on an assessment panel where that application is to be reviewed. Indirect conflicts of interest are managed by a standard OAC procedure.
Number of Applications:
18
Number of Grants Awarded:
17
Total Recommended:
$939,920
Recipients:
Multi-Year Operating - Year 2
4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, $63,453
Blyth Festival, Blyth, $155,309
County Stage Company, Wellington, $18,098
Driftwood Theatre Group, Picton, $15,823
Guild Festival Theatre, Scarborough, $21,726
HFTco, Hamilton, $31,981
Lighthouse Festival, Port Dover, $54,644
Ottawa Fringe Festival, Ottawa, $33,583
Shakespeare in the Ruff, Toronto, $17,616
SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto, $56,070
Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, $245,260
Toronto Fringe, Toronto, $95,355
YES THEATRE, Sudbury, $43,000
Operating
A Company of Fools Theatre Inc., Ottawa, $20,192
Odyssey Theatre, Ottawa, $30,209
Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Port Stanley, $18,114
St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Prescott, $19,487