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HONOURING
EXCELLENCE:
AWARDS
CELEBRATING PASSION, COMMITMENT
AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.
A
number of outstanding Hart
House staff and students were
honoured for their innovative
programs, community engagement
and volunteer efforts in 2018–19.
DONOR-SUPPORTED
AWARDS
Audrey Hozack Award
Now is its second year, the Audrey
Hozack Award is named in honour
of a legendary 39-year employee
and Assistant Warden of Hart
House who passed away in
February 2016. Hozack believed
that Hart House gave students
“a taste of a different kind of life –
a cultured life.”
Through the generosity of a group
of donors, every year Hart House
recognizes one outstanding student
leader who receives the $1,000
award. Venus Wang was this year’s
honouree for her work as Chair of
the Debates & Dialogue Committee.
“I’m incredibly grateful and
humbled to be the recipient
of an award named after
a person who embodies so
perfectly the spirit of Hart
House… My year as Chair
of the Debates & Dialogue
Committee has been challenging
in the best sense. I
have grown as a student and
a person, and I am so grateful
to have had the opportunity.”
–Venus Wang,
2018–19 winner of
the Audrey Hozack Award
Donald Sutherland
Best Performance Awards
In 1954, renowned actor Donald
Sutherland was a student at U of T.
As a participant in the U of T Drama
Festival at Hart House, he won an
award for best performance.
To recognize Sutherland’s subsequent
success and philanthropic support
of the festival, Hart House Theatre
has created the Donald Sutherland
Award for Best Performance, which
is awarded annually to an actor
who has achieved a high level of
performance at the festival. This year’s
recipient was Frosina Pejcinovska for
what The Varsity newspaper called
an “electrifying performance” in the
Drama Festival production of Lone
Island Lovers.
David E. Gardner Apprentice
Director Program
The David E. Gardner Apprentice
Director Program celebrates Gardner’s
legacy as an award-winning actor,
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