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March 4, 2023
I Forgive You @ NAC
Artistic Fraud’s I Forgive You is playing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa March 1st to 11th. The Ottawa company includes a choir of local children – 21 of them – and a local music director, assistant music director, as well as an assistant stage manager. As the company continues to grow, I keep… Read More
September 30, 2022
The Imaginary Real
Well, it’s been live since mid-July, but I’ve been so GD busy that I haven’t really helped to promote this very cool thing… until now! The Imaginary Real is a free app by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (the same folks who did I Forgive You). Download it to your phone, activate your GPS, and go… Read More
September 19, 2022
St. John’s Storytelling Festival: Story Walk
Well folks, it’s been a couple of years, but the St. John’s Storytelling Festival is back in person, and I’m so pleased to be part of it. Specifically, I’m stepping in for a teller who wasn’t able to make it to St. John’s to participate (there’s still a pandemic on the go, I think you… Read More
September 13, 2022
Second Shot: The Curling Musical
Well, folks, I’m in a musical. But not just any musical. An original musical. An original musical about curling. There is a number about poutine in it. I. Am. STOKED. I love Best Kind Productions so much, and my dear friends Tim and Kiersten have been working on this musical for years, and I am… Read More
September 6, 2022
The Mermaid: a workshop
Years ago (in the beforetimes), I asked Danielle Irvine, artistic director of Perchance Theatre, for a meeting. I wanted to adapt Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 play The Lady from the Sea for a contemporary audience and set it in Newfoundland. Since Perchance is the only professional classical theatre company in the province, they were my go-to… Read More
August 30, 2022
A Place to Call Home: Living Heritage at Cupids
Tomorrow is the end of August, and frankly, that seems impossible. I’ve been directing my face off all summer long (not literally – my face is still there on the front of my head – but figuratively it has been directed right off). Between Power Productions‘ Crippled, Artistic Fraud‘s I Forgive You and The Imaginary… Read More
August 23, 2022
I Forgive You
Since November, I’ve been part of an incredible (and enormous) team of artists working to bring Scott Jones’ words and story to the stage. It’s been an absolute honour to work with these people and this material, and the show is GD beautiful. I hope you can see it. St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre,… Read More
July 29, 2022
Dayboil: a world premiere
New play alert! Dayboil is a one-act play I’ve been working on since 2018. I saw it read at the 2019 Playwrights’ Atlantic Resource Centre in 2019, and lucky for me, so did Richie Wilcox, the current Artistic Producer at Ship’s Company Theatre. He asked me for the premiere and I could not believe my… Read More
October 6, 2021
The Mirror
I’m so thrilled to be back on stage with Persistence, this time in an epic piece by Trudy Morgan-Cole about Armine Nutting Gosling, leader of the suffragist movement in St. John’s. Alison Woolridge is doing incredible work in the rehearsal room as Armine, and her real-life husband Brian Marler is holding the fort as the… Read More
October 30, 2020
CBC Poetry Prize Longlist
Hello Internet, it’s Friday, October 30th, and yesterday was a pretty big day. I did Original on the mainstage at the Arts & Culture Centre, which was just… wow. What a big stage for that little show – and yet, it felt like it fit. And to work in front of a live audience again…… Read More