<p><strong>Jacob Zimmer</strong><span> is the director of Small Wooden Shoe, a mostly-theatre company bent on proving that good ideas are entertaining and that pleasure and critique require each other. Jacob works in dance as the Dramaturge and Animateur at Dancemakers and in an on-going dramaturgical collaboration with choreographer Ame Henderson. He is the inaugeral Toronto Fringe Research Chair looking into a “Populism we can stand behind.” Jacob has lead composition and performance workshops in Halifax, Toronto and St John’s. He’s given talks at Performance Creation Canada (Halifax 2008, Caravan Theatre 2010) the Glenbow Museum (Calgary 2010) and at universities. With Misha Glouberman, he organizes the UnConference on the Future(s) of Toronto Performance. Jacob studied at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and in 2004 was a technical intern with The Wooster Group. Jacob received the 2008 Ken McDougall Award for emerging directors..</span></p>