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Orphaned Egret at Theatre in the Bush

September 22, 2016

The Summer was a busy one, between performing with the Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue, teching at Canada’s Magnetic North Festival, and most recently driving the Waterfront Trolley as part of The Tale of a Town during their stop in Whitehorse. My play, Third Person, also enjoyed a production as part of Kingston Ontario’s first annual Storefront Fringe Festival. But now the Yukon landscape is painted a beautiful palette of yellows and greens and I await the exciting opportunities to come.

Looking ahead to the Fall, my company Orphaned Egret will be presenting a piece as part of Ramshackle Theatre’s fantastic Theatre in the Bush. Having attended the last two iterations, first as an audience member then as a guide, I’m so excited to contribute this Autumn as a performer/creator. Those attending can look forward to Orphaned Egret’s unique existential voice as we contribute a brand new original site-specific short play as part of this innovative multidisciplinary trek around Yukon’s boreal forest.

Currently, tickets are already selling out for the 6th edition of Varietease: A Burlesque Cabaret, which I’m happy to announce I’ll be co-Stage-Managing. Coming up, I’ll also be serving as the Stage Manager for Gwaandak Theatre‘s contribution to the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance Intertribal Gathering in Haines Junction, YT.

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I’m also happy to report that I’m running a Youth Theatre program at the Heart of Riverdale community centre, together with Orphaned Egret co-founder Kevin Ray. This after-school program for kids grade 3 – 8 gives youth a chance to develop their creative voices and explore the many roles that need to come together to create our own original musical from top to bottom, over the course of a whole school year. Registration is still open and we always welcome new voices!

As always, there’s lots of new work in development as well, so hold on tight for updates about a second appearance at Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival, a new Orphaned Egret Production in Toronto and another in Whitehorse, new initiatives and collaborations, as well as a bid to play a role in yet another renowned Yukon performing arts institution.

 

Gift Horse Readings at the Pivot Festival

December 30, 2015

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I’m happy to announce that the first-ever staged-reading of scenes from my new play in-progress, Gift Horse will take place  at Nakai Theatre’s 9th annual Pivot Festival, a celebration of new and boundary-pushing performance arts. The reading will take place 7:00pm, Monday January 25th at the Whitehorse Public Library, and will feature an opportunity to participate in the play’s development in the form of a talk-back after the reading.

When a disgraced professor and his fiance return to the young man’s childhood home in rural southwestern Ontario, they find that not all is as it should be. While the family’s youngest son pores over books on obscure physics in pursuit of the “perfect, inter-planar body-check”, the arrival of a charismatic Hobo-Preacher brings  on a flood of hillbilly tenants that defies physics itself.

Theatre of the Absurd, Fringe Science, HP Lovecraft, Quantum Physics, Occultism, and the Good Old Hockey Game collide in this atmospheric, metaphysical horror farm-play.

Check out Nakai Theatre’s Website and the Pivot Festival on Facebook. A Facebook event for the Gift Horse readings will be coming soon via Orphaned Egret.