RENT

RENT takes place in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where you will follow a group of friends in Manhattan’s East Village who fight to build the lives of their dreams. RENT resonates with anyone who’s ever struggled with life, love and everything in between....

Future Midnight

The Wood Buffalo Excellence in Arts Awards were created in 2016 to recognize and celebrate excellence in various arts disciplines throughout the Wood Buffalo region. The awards are distributed at an awards showcase. In 2020, to respect physical distancing, the Showcase was held in the...

Misery

After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (Brodie Dransutavicius) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Ashley Makey), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers...

Symmetries Do Not Exist

In honour of #WorldArtDay and #NationalPoetryMonth, I created a poem for submission to Wood Buffalo initiative: “Queering Activism in Wood Buffalo”, a book project that seeks to explore the intersections of being queer and doing activism in our region....

Buffys 2020: Midnight Steampunk

The Wood Buffalo Excellence in Arts Awards were created in 2016 to recognize and celebrate excellence in various arts disciplines throughout the Wood Buffalo region. The awards are distributed at an awards showcase. In 2020, to respect physical distancing, the Showcase was held in the...

Quarter Life Crisis

This funny and well-observed one-woman show explores the contradictions faced by young people when the markers of ‘growing up’ – having a career, a relationship and independence – are difficult to achieve. It also offers insight into life as a second generation migrant living in...

The Slave

East of West Theatre Company in association with The Alchemist present the European premiere of THE SLAVE by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. A shockingly honest and unapologetic psychological morality tale. An examination of tension between black and white in contemporary America....

Proud

Shortly after the Conservatives win a majority government in the 2011 federal election, the prime minister discovers a secret weapon in his caucus—Jisbella Lyth, a single mother with a limited understanding of her role as an MP. Using her ignorance to his advantage, the PM...

Oracle

Oracle was an original performance that explored both live and digital spaces. Performed in the round, Oracle built two separate sound-dependent spaces, and questioned whether the digital world brought those spaces closer together, or pushed them further apart....

Symmetry Doesn’t Exist

Symmetry Doesn’t Exist was a solo performance that explored the validity of binary thinking through the symbol of Symmetry. It used projections, pop culture references, and mask theory to explore gender and sexuality binaries....