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February 28, 2024
Women’s Work Festival 2024
Hello Internet! It never rains but it pours. I’m a long-time fan of the Women’s Work Festival. I love them. I read in a workshop quite a while ago, and since then I have mostly been asked to speak on panels. I often submit plays, but I’ve never had one accepted for workshopping before. This… Read More
October 23, 2023
Now is the time to take on a new job… right?
Hello Internet! You know how I keep going on about my “last project before the baby comes”? Ok, well, I still don’t have a baby (I am 38 weeks pregnant, if you’re counting, which I very much am), but I do have a new job, as Artistic Director of Shakespeare by the Sea Festival. This… Read More
October 20, 2023
Between Breaths in Halifax (again!)
I keep thinking projects are my last project before baby… and then I’m wrong! Beloved Between Breaths is back in rehearsal this evening in preparation for one show in Halifax on October 24th. I am not going with them to Halifax (nobody wants me on an airplane right now) so I’ll have to send them… Read More
September 21, 2023
Tales from Near and Afar
Hello Internet! I have a surprise last performance before this baby comes… at the St. John’s Storytelling Festival! Delightfully, I’ll be sharing a bill with Kate Story and Myles Murphy. Come see us at The HUB on September 28th, 8pm.
September 5, 2023
hope
Hello Internet – let’s talk about hope. Tim and Kiersten – the creative geniuses behind Second Shot: the Curling Musical – asked me to be part of the process of this precious little play years ago, when their oldest child was still quite new. They had some development money, and they wanted my dramaturgical eye… Read More
June 18, 2023
Stage Presence workshop
Hello, Internet! Happy Father’s Day! We’re celebrating dads everywhere (?) by replacing the floor in the main level of our house! Hurray! Coming up this Thursday, I am teaching a workshop in Stage Presence with the St. John’s Storytelling Festival. My plan is to teach storytellers how to ground their bodies in space, and how… Read More
June 8, 2023
The Imaginary Real Relaunch
Summer is back, and Artistic Fraud is re-launching their digital city-exploration project, The Imaginary Real. It’s like monologue geocaching: when you (and your phone) get close enough to one of 20 locations, a monologue will cue up and read itself to you. Each place has its own piece, written and performed by local artists. I… Read More
March 29, 2023
Narnia
Hello Internet! I’m still in the thick of this comprehensive exam, so the quickest of notes to say that Kittiwake Dance Theatre is presenting Narnia this weekend for one day only, and you should go. Artistic Director Martin Vallee is co-choreographing with Hannah Drover (who I have known since she was a teenager and I… Read More
March 20, 2023
The curling musical is hitting the road
Hello, Internet, today is Monday, March 20 – the day I begin my thesis area comprehensive exam. Comprehensive exams are a key part of my PhD work, and I’ve been reading an awful lot of books over the last several months. So today I will get my questions, pick one, and start what is essentially… Read More
March 11, 2023
Between Breaths in New Brunswick
Hello Internet! The morning after I Forgive You opened in Ottawa, I boarded a plane and came home… and straight into rehearsals for Between Breaths. It is a winter of straight Artistic Fraud shows! We are headed out on Tuesday for three shows in New Brunswick, and will be in Fredericton on March 16, Saint… Read More