Podcasts about Theatre Passe Muraille

This week on Stageworthy, host Phil Rickaby welcomes Amanda Lin and Julia Dickson, the co-leadership team behind the Paprika Theatre Festival, now celebrating its 24th season. Amanda and Julia share the story of Paprika's evolution, recent strategic programming changes to prioritize artist and staff well-being, and the organization's commitment to supporting emerging artists. They dive into how the Paprika Festival fosters professional development, provides paid opportunities, and creates space for experimentation and growth — a vital contribution to the Canadian theatre community. Amanda and Julia also talk about their own journeys into arts administration, their long-standing collaboration, and what's coming up at this year's festival. This episode explores: How the Paprika Theatre Festival empowers emerging artists and administrators Why Paprika shifted its programming to prevent burnout and better support artists The importance of paid training opportunities in building a more inclusive theatre industry Amanda and Julia's creative and leadership journeys Highlights and exciting events for this year's Paprika Festival (May 13–17, 2025, at Aki Studio in Toronto) How community programming, including a neighbourhood lemonade stand and a pre-prom dance, builds lasting local connections Guests:

Do you have a favourite acoustic space to listen to music? Christine Malec has thoughts about music venues. From April 2 to 19 this year, Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto held the World Premier of The Little Prince, A Physical Theatre Adaptation, led by visionary Deaf artist and storyteller Landon Krentz. Joining us are RalistaRodriguez who plays Aviator, Queen, Archivist in the Ensemble, as well as ASL Interpreter Marcia Adolphe, to chat more about the show. Too much stuff in your kitchen and nowhere to put it? Chef Mary Mammoliti shares 5 steps to get your kitchen back in order and working for you again. Find Kelly & Company on YouTube!About AMIAMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail feedback@ami.ca

NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 2021), which won the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry. With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places More about Charlie Petch: Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Sheri-D Golden Beret Award from The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, were the Writer In Residence for Berton House (2023), were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021. Their solo show "No one's special at the hot dog cart" debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2024, and their next poetry book "Infinite Audition" is out with Brick Books in Fall 2025. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 2021), which won the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry. With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places More about Charlie Petch: Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Sheri-D Golden Beret Award from The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, were the Writer In Residence for Berton House (2023), were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021. Their solo show "No one's special at the hot dog cart" debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2024, and their next poetry book "Infinite Audition" is out with Brick Books in Fall 2025. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 2021), which won the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry. With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places More about Charlie Petch: Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Sheri-D Golden Beret Award from The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, were the Writer In Residence for Berton House (2023), were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021. Their solo show "No one's special at the hot dog cart" debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2024, and their next poetry book "Infinite Audition" is out with Brick Books in Fall 2025. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

In this final episode of Stageworthy, host Phil Rickaby talks with theatre and opera director, playwright and educator, Peter Hinton-Davis. In addition to his work work as a director, playwright, and educator, from 2005-2012, he took over as the artistic director of English theatre at Ottawa's National Arts Centre, shaping how Canada conceptualizes its national theatre. He is currently directing Coal Mine Theatre's Dion, running until March 3 at Toronto's Coal Mine Theatre. Stay tuned to the end of the episode for some thoughts from Phil Rickaby on the ending of Stageworthy. Bio Director, dramaturg and playwright Peter Hinton-Davis has worked across Canada with many theatre companies. He has been the Associate Artistic Director at Theatre Passe Muraille and the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, Artistic Director of the Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, the Dramaturg in Residence at Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, and Artistic Associate of the Stratford Festival. From 2005 to 2012 he was Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre English theatre, where he created a resident English theatre company, with actors from across the country, and programmed the NAC's first season of Canadian plays. His own plays for the stage include Façade, Urban Voodoo (written with Jim Millan) and a trilogy of three full length plays entitled The Swanne -- George III: The Death of Cupid (2002), Princess Charlotte: The Acts of Venus (2003), and Queen Victoria: The Seduction of Nemesis (2004). Eleven years in the making, all three plays premiered under his direction at the Stratford Festival. In 2006, he co-created with Domini Blythe, and directed the solo work, Fanny Kemble, about the life of the famous British actress and abolitionist. www.peterhinton.ca Instagram: @peterhintondavis

Welcome back to the 164th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 164th episode we bring you a a duet review of Migraaaants by Matei Visneic, presented in its Toronto premiere by Two Thousand Feet Up Theatre Co., directed by Siavash Shabanpour. Join Ryan Borochovitz and Jimmy Zhao, as they discuss the ethics and aesthetics of laughing about serious subject matter, the mechanics of immersive theatre, and how much the world has changed since 2016.  Migraaaants is playing at Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave, Toronto, ON) until January 28th, 2024. Tickets can be purchased from the following link: https://ca.patronbase.com/_TheatrePasseMuraille/Productions/MIG/Performances This review contains SPOILERS for Migraaaants. It will begin with a general non-spoiler review until the [11:00] mark, followed by a more in-depth/anything goes/spoiler-rich discussion. If you intend to see the production, we recommend you stop watching after that point, or at least proceed at your own risk.    Follow our panelists:  Jimmy Zhao – YouTube: I Will Say This Tho (https://www.youtube.com/@iwillsaythistho3023) // Email (for literary agents): jimmy.zhao.writing@gmail.com Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!]  Follow Cup of Hemlock Theatre on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatre If you'd like us to review your upcoming show in Toronto, please send press invites/inquiries to coh.theatre.MM@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

This week on Finding Your Bliss, Life Coach and Bliss Expert Judy Librach is joined by legendary and award-winning musical theatre actress, singer, dancer and composer Louise Pitre! Receiving a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in the smash hit "Mamma Mia!" was a highlight for Louise Pitre, Canada

A couple leave outraged reviews about products delivered by Amazon, while climate chaos swishes into their home. Their responses to their escalating crisis become increasingly absurd, topped only by the absurdity of Amazon's tactics to thwart them.Absolutely Nothing Of Any Meaning was written by Sunny Drake. Find the transcript here.Climate Change and Other Small Talk is  a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out. --- FOLLOW US---Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus content including discussion guides and a listening party hosting guide: https://www.sunnydrake.com/climatechangeandothersmalltalkFollow Sunny, the series creator, on Instagram: instagram.com/sunny_drakeFollow Sunny Drake Productions on Facebook: facebook.com/sunnydrake.creationsTwitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake --- CREDITS ---Absolutely Nothing of Any MeaningWritten by SUNNY DRAKEDirected by WEYNI MENGESHA Starring:ANAND RAJARAMLIISA REPO-MARTELLand BAHAREH YARAGHI as Amazon Sound design and music by RICHARD FEREN and OLIVIA SHORTTDramaturgy by KATHLEEN FLAHERTY, WEYNI MENGESHA and DONNA-MICHELLE ST. BERNARD Episode produced by WHY NOT THEATRE and SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS with the generous support of SOULPEPPER THEATREEpisode Producer: MICHELLE YAGIEpisode Production Manager: CRYSTAL LEEAudio mixing by HEATHER BROWNRecording engineer MATT RIDEOUTSpecial thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, The Arctic Circle Residency Program and fellow residents, Climate Change Theatre Action, ACTRA Toronto, Canadian Actors' Equity Association, Volcano Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Chantal Bilodeau, Chanelle Gallant, Alex Kelly and Isaac Lev Szmonko.This episode was recorded in Tkaronto, Toronto, which is Dish With One Spoon territory, the territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. --- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---Created by SUNNY DRAKEProduced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRELead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUVConcept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONGImpact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FERENSeries funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts CouncilSee our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.

Rob Kempson is a theatre artist and educator, working primarily as a director and playwright, and the Artistic Director of the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope. Selected Writer/Director: Trigonometry (timeshare/Factory); Mockingbird (Next Stage Theatre Festival); SHANNON 10:40 (timeshare/Videofag); explicit (Rhubarb Festival); #legacy (Harbourfront Centre); The HV Project (Community). Selected Director: Box 4901 (timeshare/Buddies), The Places We Are (Theatre Erindale), The Snow Queen (Canadian Children's Opera Company), Electric Messiah (Soundstreams), The Little Mermaid (St. Lawrence College), 9 to 5: The Musical (Randolph College), The Ballad of Stompin' Tom (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Box 4901 (SummerWorks, foldA Festival); The Canadian, Maggie and Pierre, Million Dollar Quartet, Daisy Amazed Me, Violet's the Pilot, Rose's Clothes (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Robert (co-directed with Briana Brown, Toronto Fringe); Songs for a New World (Claude Watson). Writer/Composer/Performer: The Way Back To Thursday (Theatre Passe Muraille/Touchstone Theatre – Dora Nomination: Outstanding New Musical). Rob has been a member of the Stratford Festival Playwrights' Retreat, a Resident Artist Educator at Young People's Theatre, and the RBC Intern Director for The Musical Stage Co. He is the past Artistic Producer of the Paprika Festival, the past Associate Artistic Producer at Theatre Passe Muraille, and the past Associate Artistic Director at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. Rob is also the Co-Artistic Director of ARC, a Toronto-based company. www.robkempson.com Twitter: @rob_kempson Instagram: @rob_kempson Tickets to ARC's Martyr: https://www.nativeearth.ca/shows/martyr/ Support Stageworthy Donate: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Born in Albania, Indrit has made Tkarón:to his home since 2000. He is the Founding Artistic Producer for lemonTree creations and Artistic Producer for Theatre Passe Muraille. lemonTree creations focuses on queer works, and Indrit has produced, acted in, choreographed and directed several critically acclaimed and award winning productions, including a national tour for MSM [men seeking men]. As the Artistic Producer of Canada's original alternative theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Indrit continues to develop exciting new theatrical voices while also focusing on national and international touring for the company. As a performer, Indrit has had the privilege to work with many talented writers, directors, designers and companies in a myriad of projects that more often than not are interdisciplinary in nature making use of both his ability with movement and text. Most notably he is a company member of the award winning dance theatre company CORPUS. Through Corpus he has helped develop and premiere two new works (Machina Nuptialis, House Guests) and continued touring other repertoire to North America, Europe and Asia. He's an Acting graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, a 2018 Harold Award Winner and a 2020 Dora Nominated performer. Twitter: @indritk Instagram: @indritk Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Tap Dancer. Performer. Choreographer. Speaker. Believer. Travis Knights is realizing his dreams, pounding rhythms on wood floors all over the world. His talent and dedication have earned him audiences in Shanghai, Dusseldorf, Paris, New York, and Vancouver to name a few. His career started in 2000, when he was cast as a principal dancer in the motion picture biography of Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson with Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. The film, 'Bojangles', was choreographed by the legendary Henry LeTang. In 2006, he was tapped to be the principal dancer in the video game adaptation of Warner Brother's 'Happy Feet'. In 2007 and 2008, Travis participated extensively as a Tap Dance consultant for Cirque du Soleil. He had the privilege of performing in Tandem Act Productions' 'Diary of a Tap Dancer' at the Apollo Theatre, and the touring show 'Wonderland: A Tap Tribute to Stevie Wonder', created by Ayodele Casel and Sarah Savelli. Knights was a featured Tap Dancer in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. In the same year, he toured North America with the raucous and rowdy internationally acclaimed Australian Tap Dance show, Tap Dogs. From 2010 to 2013, Knights jumped into the dance company world as a principal dancer with Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, Texas under the artistic direction of Acia Gray. During his time there he was awarded the Austin Critic's Table Award for best dance artist in 2011 and 2013. In 2014, he embarked on a self-produced world tour, filming his web series entitled 'The Interviews' featuring celebrated pioneers in the tap dance world. In 2015, he debuted new works in Thomas Marek's show NOLA in Hamburg, Germany. In 2018, he worked once again with Cirque du Soleil in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. Later that year, he acted as the Artistic Director for the 2018 Vancouver International Tap Dance Festival. In 2019 Knights finished a two-year community development residency at the Tranzac Club in Toronto hosting the Jazz United Jam, a weekly jazz jam session aimed at connecting live musicians with dancers. He is the 2020 recipient of the Jaqueline Lemieux Prize for outstanding contribution to dance in Canada. He currently lives in Brampton, Ontario and hosts The Tap Love Tour Podcast, available on Spotify, Soundcloud and Apple podcasts, (make sure to subscribe) featuring interviews of a myriad of inspiring artists. In 2021 he will debut a new full-length original work commissioned by Anandem Dance Theatre called Ephemeral Artifacts. The one-man show will play at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto and at the Mai in Montreal. Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Soundcloud Podcast

Aaron Jan is a Hamilton-born playwright, director, dramaturg. and educator. He has worked as a creator with Factory Theatre, UpintheAir Theatre, Soulpepper, York University, Boca Del Lupo, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, the Musical Stage Company, Canadian Stage, Theatre Erindale, Sheridan College and most recently as a guest director at the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. A member of the critically acclaimed Silk Bath Collective, Aaron is the 2019 winner of the Ken McDougall directing award, the 2021 inaugural co-winner of Highland Arts Theatre's Rita Joe playwriting award, a 2021 Johanna Protege Award, the 2022 winner of the Urjo Kareda Award and a co-recipient of The Musical Stage Company's Aubrey and Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals. Alongside Karen Ancheta, Aaron is a co-founder of Porch Light Theatre (currently a company in residence at Theatre Aquarius), and is dedicated to making his hometown a place where professional theatre artists can make new work and be compensated fairly for it. http://aaronchihojan.wixsite.com/home Twitter: @afatchineseboy Instagram: @afatchineseboy Porch Light Theatre https://www.industrypresents.com/porchlight-theatre Tickets to House Key Project: https://boxoffice.hamiltonfringe.ca/event/866:605/ Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

I personally think that cross-cultural solidarity between communities of colour is absolutely essential to build the kinds of worlds that we want, in any of the areas that we're struggling at the moment.  - Suvendrini Lena In this episode we chat with our dear friend, mother, human, playwright, and neurologist Suvendrini Lena!  Suvendrini works as a neurologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Women's College Hospital. She has been an artist-in-residence at several artistic and medical organizations, including the Theatre Centre and the University of Toronto. She is also the writer of Rubble, a theatre project inspired by the poetry of Palestinian writers Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Mahmoud Darwish and currently in development at Aluna Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille.  We chat with Suvendrini about how her role as doctor influences her as a playwright and vice versa, and about what solidarity looks like in her work.    Show Notes:  Poems that inspired Rubble: Running Orders by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and A State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish    All Radio Aluna Theatre episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council,  the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and TD Bank.   Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Monica Garrido and Camila Diaz-Varela. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like' us on facebook. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Personalmente, creo que la solidaridad intercultural entre comunidades de color es absolutamente esencial para construir el tipo de mundos que queremos, en cualquiera de las áreas en las que estamos luchando en este momento”. - Suvendrini Lena ¡En este episodio conversamos con madre, humana, dramaturga y neuróloga Suvendrini Lena! Suvendrini trabaja como neuróloga en el Centro de Adicciones y Salud Mental y en el Hospital Universitario de la Mujer. Ha sido artista residente en varias organizaciones artísticas y médicas, incluido el Theatre Centre y la Universidad de Toronto. Suvendrini es la escritora de Rubble, un proyecto de teatro inspirado en la poesía de los escritores palestinos Lena Khalaf Tuffaha y Mahmoud Darwish y actualmente este pieza esta siendo desarrollada con la compañía Aluna Teatro! Bibliografía: Poemas que inspiraron Rubble: Running Orders de Lena Khalaf Tuffaha y A State of Siege de Mahmoud Darwish

Daniel Levinson has been performing, directing and teaching stage combat professionally since founding Rapier Wit in 1991. Rapier Wit is Canada's oldest stage combat school and production company. Daniel is proud to be counted among Fight Directors Canada's Fight Masters. He has had a long history with FDC. He was one of the founding advanced actor combatants at FDC's inaugural workshop. Daniel has created fights for companies such as The Stratford Festival (5 seasons), Canadian Stage, Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, Volcano Theatre, Actors Repertory Company, Second City, A.C.T. Productions, Shakespeare In the Square, Factory Theatre, Shakespeare in the Rough, Theatre Aquarius, The Actor's Repertory Company, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Tarragon Theatre and The Guild Festival Theatre. Daniel is proud of his years teaching at the University of Waterloo, Sheridan, and the University of Toronto Mississauga. www.rapierwit.com Twitter: @RapierWitCombat Instagram: @Rapierwit Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Welcome to AlbertaLand, where it's cold and greasy. And how the media is bored with the sixth wave. Dani Paradis co-hosts.  Links: Canadian Press article re: Jonathan Denis CBC article re: Jason Kenney CANADALAND article re: Diana Davison Robson Fletcher tweet re: National Post NFTs - see the NFTs for yourself! CANADALANDBACK Toronto Star article re: Paxlovid rollout Sponsors:Rotman, PolicyMe, Theatre Passe Muraille, Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Guest today is Marcia Johnson. Marcia is an actor, playwright, dramaturge and librettist. She was born in Jamaica and has lived in Toronto since the age of six. She became a WGC member when her 90-minute Fringe, play Perfect on Paper was commissioned for Sunday Showcase on CBC Radio in 2003. She played the lead in both the stage and radio versions. Perfect on Paper was a silver medalist in the New York Festivals. Other radio dramas include Wifely Duty, The Revival Meeting and Say Ginger Ale (a WGC Screenwriting award finalist.) Other accomplishments include the world premiere of Serving Elizabeth, in which she also acted, at Western Canada Theatre in February 2020. It was a co-production with Thousand Islands Playhouse whose production was postponed to October 2021. It had a production under a canopy at Stratford Festival and at Belfry Theatre. The play is published by Scirocco Drama. Marcia has participated in playwrights' units at Thousand Islands Playhouse, Obsidian Theatre Company, Theatre Passe Muraille as well as Ontario Arts Council Playwright's Residencies at Blyth Festival and Roseneath Theatre. The short opera My Mother's Ring for which she wrote the libretto with composer Stephen A. Taylor was nominated for a 2009 Dora Mavor Moore Award in Toronto. Their second collaboration, Paradises Lost, based on the Ursula K. Le Guin novella had excerpted concert performances at Reed College (Third Angle Ensemble) in Portland, Oregon and at The Gershwin Hotel in New York. Paradises Lost had its premiere at University of Illinois and a concert performance for Musical Works in Concert during the SummerWorks Festival. Marcia Johnson works with several organizations to support members of the theatre community including: Got Your Back Canada where she is a core member. She sits on the Women Playwrights International senior advisory board; is a CASA founding member, a mentorship program pairing mid-career female South African playwrights; and Ergo Arts Pink Fest (selection committee, dramaturg, actor), a festival featuring the works of female, trans and non-binary playwrights. She is also a member of ARCA (Artists for Real Climate Action) finding creative ways help combat the climate crisis. Our discussion focused on her process and voice as a playwright and the importance of being empathetic to all her characters and how they bring value to her personal development.

In this episode, I chat to Douglas Lyons - the playwright behind Broadway's newest comedy, Chicken & Biscuits - and notably, one of seven Black writers whose names have just been etched in the history books of American theatre. Douglas is one half of the sensational musical theatre writing partnership, Lyons & Pakchar - creators of Beau: The Musical.Words of WisdomDouglas Lyons on the writer's potential to gift joy to an audience... "On stage during closing, I broke down. I cried openly in front of strangers... because there was a different version of power in the theatre, and I had only felt it [before] as an actor. But there's a power in the pen if we use it with intention".Conversation Highlights & Links[04:58] Getting the words on the page - writing spaces and inspiration[09:25] The journey to Broadway for Chicken & Biscuits[21:58] Beau: the making of a future-hit musical[26:29] Championing the next wave of black voices on American stages[30:28] Polkadots: The Cool Kids MusicalConnect with DouglasVisit Douglas' websiteConnect on Instagram @ChocolateHipsterConnect on Twitter @DouglassingsTickets for Chicken & Biscuits on BroadwayConnect with PaulBuy the book, The Writer's ToolkitVisit Paul's websiteConnect on Instagram @PaulKalburgiConnect on Twitter @PaulKalburgiNext time...I talk to playwright, librettist and Artistic Director of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, Marjorie Chan. Be sure to follow or subscribe and we'll let you know when the next episode is published.Support the show!This podcast is fuelled by coffee. If you'd like to support the show, please send some writing juice via the link below.Buy me a coffeeMake a donationWant to advertise or sponsor the show?Click here to get in touchSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-writers-toolkit/donations

Interview with Paul David Power, the astonishing playwright behind 'Crippled' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books!Paul David Power is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director from Newfoundland and Labrador, whose play Crippled was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.Crippled, about a gay disabled man coping with grief following the death of his partner, was based in part on his own experiences following the death of his partner, Jonathan, in 2013. Power himself has a disability which requires him to use leg braces and crutches to walk.The play was first produced for the stage in 2018, with Power performing the lead role himself, and was published by Breakwater Books in 2021. A planned production in San Francisco in 2019 was halted under complicated American rules which require foreign theatre artists to have their work bureaucratically judged as "culturally unique" before they can be granted a work permit. In 2022, the play was mounted at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, with Power playing the lead role.Power is the artistic director of his own theatre company, Power Productions, which specializes in stage plays about disability. His other plays have included Roomies, Last Chance, The View from Down Here and In Your Eyes.Originally broadcast on September 20, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Listen online at http://www.chmr.ca/​​.This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​​Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​​Write Project Newsletter signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLThis recording Copyright © 2021 Matthew LeDrew

Keshia Palm (she/they) is a Toronto-based Filipinx-Canadian settler from Treaty 6 Territory who seeks to expose, challenge and dismantle systems of oppression by creating thoughtful and inclusive art/spaces. Her creative practice includes dramaturgy, direction, performance, writing and producing. Keshia has developed and performed new works with theatre companies across Canada and is the dramaturge for a number of works in development by IBPOC, queer, women and trans artists. Her digital community arts project Make Me An Alleycat (created with wheels from Claren Grosz) invites people to connect over stories and destinations while social distancing by going for a bike ride. Keshia is a playwright in the 20/21 Hot House Lab at Cahoots Theatre, and a former Factory Foreman. She has been the Online Content Producer for ArtistProducerResource.com at Generator since 2018. Julia Dickson (she/her) is an arts manager, educator, and producer currently based in Toronto. She currently works as the General Manager of the Paprika Festival, with Young People's Theatre as an Artist Educator, and with Single Thread Theatre Company as their Artistic Producer. Previously, Julia worked with Studio 180 Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Festival Players of Prince Edward County. Julia has a post-graduate certificate in Arts Administration and Cultural Management from Humber College, and a Bachelor of Education with a focus on Artist in the Community Education from Queen's University. About Paprika Paprika Festival is a youth-led professional performing arts organization. Paprika runs year round professional training and mentorship programs that culminate in a performing arts festival of new work by young artists. Paprika generates opportunities for young artists to lead their own creative process with the support of their peers and professional mentors. paprikafestival.com Instagram: @paprikafestival Twitter: @paprikafestival Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy Merch: https://shop.stageworthyproductions.com/

“You have to allow yourself to be a bad writer to become a better writer. That’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned.” - Mariló Núñez   This week’s guest is Chilean Canadian playwright and director, and Aluna’s playwright in residence, Mariló Núñez! Mariló is based in Hamilton, Ontario, and is the 2018 recipient of the Hamilton Arts Award for Established Theatre Artist. She was the founding Artistic Director of Alameda Theatre Company, a company dedicated to developing the new work of Latinx Canadian playwrights, and is currently obtaining her Ph D. in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University. She is also the writer of our next Studio Series presentation, El Retorno/I Return, a play that explores family, exile and revolution, and journeys into the heart of Latin American history.    In this interview we talk about Latinx identity in North America, the creation method of María Irene Fornés, writing race as a playwright, and her insights on developing a writing practice  Aluna Theatre’s Artistic Director Beatriz Pizano will direct Mariló’s upcoming Studio Series presentation, and recently directed another radio play available to stream right now - listen to Soulpepper Theatre Company’s Around the World in 80 Plays presentation of The Walls by Argentinian playwright Griselda Gambaro here!   SHOW NOTES: The Refugee Hotel, a play written by Carmen Aguirre and first produced by Alameda Theatre Company in association with Theatre Passe Muraille. Read more about the production history leading up to the premiere, and check out the show’s website for ‘blogu-mentary’ videos! In 2008, Stephen Colella and Erica Kopyto helped Mariló found the De Colores Festival of New Works, Canada’s first playwrights unit and festival dedicated to developing the work of Canadian Latin American writers. INTAR, or International Arts Relations Inc in New York City, is one of the United States’ longest running Latino theaters producing in English. Their Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab was founded by esteemed dramatist and teacher María Irene Fornés. Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Cherrie Moraga, Caridad Svich, and Luis Alfaro were inspirations for Mariló as she ran Alameda Theatre Company. Mariló participated in the Fornés Playwriting Workshop in Chicago led by award-winning playwright and Fornés protégée Migdalia Cruz. She earned her Masters in Playwriting at Guelph University, and is currently earning her PhD at York University with a focus on race and theatre. Blood In Blood Out and American Me are films with Latino stereotypes that Mariló watched growing up. Mariló’s merienda: chips with Himalayan salt, which are perfect for weathering the storm that is COVID-19.   “Tienes que permitirte ser un mal escritor para convertirte en un mejor escritor. Esa es la lección más grande que he aprendido "  - Mariló Núñez   La invitada de esta semana es la dramaturga y directora chilena-canadiense, y la actual dramaturga en residencia de Aluna, ¡Mariló Núñez! Mariló con sede en Hamilton, Ontario, en el 2018 recibió el premio de artista teatral establecido por parte de los “Hamilton Arts Award”.  Fue la Directora Artística y fundadora de Alameda Theatre Company, una compañía dedicada a desarrollar el nuevo trabajo de dramaturgos latinx canadienses, y actualmente Mariló está obteniendo su doctorado en Estudios de Teatro y Performance en la Universidad de York. También es la escritora de nuestra próxima presentación del Studio Series, El Retorno / I Return, una obra que explora la familia, el exilio y la revolución, y viaja al corazón de la historia de América Latina.   En esta entrevista hablamos sobre la identidad Latinx en Norteamérica, el método de creación de María Irene Fornés, escribir personajes de diferentes razas como dramaturga y sus formas de desarrollar una práctica de escritura.   La directora artística de Aluna Theatre, Beatriz Pizano, dirigirá la próxima presentación del Studio Series escrita por Mariló. Bea recientemente también dirigió otra obra de radio disponible en línea disponible ahora: escuche la presentación de Soulpepper Theatre Company Around the World in 80 Plays “The Walls” de la dramaturga argentina Griselda Gambaro aquí!.   Bibliografía: El hotel de los Refugiados, una obra escrita por Carmen Aguirre y producida por primera vez por Alameda Theatre Company en asociación con Theatre Passe Muraille. Lea más sobre el historial de producción previo al estreno y visite el sitio web de la obra para ver videos de "blogs". En 2008, Stephen Colella y Erica Kopyto ayudaron a Mariló a fundar el Festival De Colores de Obras Nuevas, creando la primera unidad y festival de dramaturgos de Canadá dedicado al desarrollo del trabajo de escritores latinoamericanos canadienses. INTAR, o International Arts Relations Inc en la ciudad de Nueva York, es uno de los teatros latinos más antiguos de Estados Unidos que produce en trabajo en inglés. Su Laboratorio de Dramaturgos Hispanos en Residencia fue fundado por la estimada dramaturga y maestra María Irene Fornés. Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Cherrie Moraga, Caridad Svich, y Luis Alfaro inspiraron a Mariló mientras dirigía la compañía de Teatro Alameda. Mariló participó en el Taller de dramaturgia de Fornés en Chicago dirigido por la galardonada dramaturga y protégée de Fornés Migdalia Cruz. Mariló obtuvo su maestría en dramaturgia en la Universidad de Guelph y actualmente está obteniendo su doctorado en la Universidad de York con un enfoque en razas y teatro. Blood In Blood Out y American Me son películas con estereotipos latinos que Mariló vio mientras crecía. La merienda de Mariló es: chips con sal del Himalaya, perfectos para pasar la tormenta que es el COVID-19.   All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council,  the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Monica Garrido and Camila Diaz-Varela. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook.   Todos los episodios de Merendiando son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de  Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, y  Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint. Radio Aluna Theatre es producido por Camila Díaz-Varela y Mónica Garrido. Para más información sobre Aluna Theatre, visita nuestra página alunatheatre.ca, síguenos en twitter @alunatheatre o en instagram, o haz click en “me gusta” en facebook.

“We don’t need the ‘you’ from a year ago, we need the ‘you’ now. We need the ‘you’ that you’ve become, and what that requires is a lot of honesty.” - Camila Diaz-Varela   This week is all about reflecting, and checking in with the community. Camila and Monica discuss how a year of physical distancing has impacted their art practice, and we hear from extra special guests Yolanda Bonnell, Rhoma Spencer, Sofia Fly, and the Party People Collective, Elizabeth Staples and Jordan Campbell.  How have you adapted your craft to this new context? Did you venture into digital or different live performance, or keep to yourself? What do you wish you knew 12 months ago? We dive into all these questions and more.    Guest bios in order of appearance:  Sofia Fly is a DJ/Producer/Vocalist from Toronto. Listen to her music on all major music streaming services and tune in to her DJ sets on Twitch (twitch.tv/djsofiafly). Check out her instagram.   Yolanda Bonnell (She/They) is a Queer 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe & South Asian Dora nominated multidisciplinary performer, writer and facilitator.  Check out their instagram.    Rhoma Spencer, Actor, Play-creator, Director and Comedian, is a veteran theatre practitioner practicing in Toronto since 2001.  Check out her instagram.   The Party People Collective is Jord Camp and Elizabeth Staples. Jord Camp is a genderfluid, genderqueer club kid alternative drag performer in Toronto. Elizabeth Staples is Bi/Queer performance artist, theatre creator, director, and arts administrator born and raised in Toronto. Check out Jordan's instagram and Liz Staple’s instagram.    SHOW NOTES:  Bad Dog Theatre Company has adapted their improv shows online. Here are some reports and stats about how the pandemic has affected women in and outside the workplace.   Sofia Fly streams live DJ sets on her Twitch channel most Sundays! The vibes are immaculate.   Listen to Sofia Fly’s latest album Beats II Virgo Rising Buy a copy of Yolanda Bonnell’s play bug, based on her solo show that was most recently presented at Theatre Passe Muraille in February 2020.  The Bricks & Glitter Festival, a do-it-ourselves multi-arts festival celebrating Two-Spirit, trans and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger and abundance in Tkaronto. Queerantine by Rhoma Spencer, in collaboration with performers Nickeshia Garrick & Jillia Cato Convergence Theatre’s Covid Confessions, an immersive audio experience The After Party, the one-to-one person show created by Jord and Elizabeth aka the Party People Collective    “No necesitamos la persona que eras 'tú' hace un año, necesitamos la persona que 'tú' eres ahora. Necesitamos la persona en la que 'tú' te has convertido, y eso requiere mucha honestidad ". - Camila Diaz-Varela    Esta semana reflexionamos y platicamos con artistas de la comunidad. Camila y Monica discuten cómo este año de distanciamiento físico ha impactado su práctica artística. En este episodio escuchamos las voces de artistas invitados extra especiales, Yolanda Bonnell, Rhoma Spencer, Sofia Fly y del colectivo de “The Party People Collective”, Elizabeth Staples y Jordan Campbell.   Les preguntamos: ¿Cómo han adaptado su práctica artística a este nuevo contexto? ¿Se aventuraron a tener presentaciones digitales o en vivo, o simplemente desarrollar su práctica sin presentación? ¿Qué les hubiera gustado saber hace 12 meses? Nos sumergimos en todas estas preguntas y más.   Biografías en orden de aparición:  Sofia Fly es una DJ / Productora / Vocalista basada en Toronto. Puede escuchar su música en los principales servicios de transmisión de música y puede sintonizar sus sesiones de DJ en Twitch (twitch.tv/djsofiafly). Mire su instagram.   Yolanda Bonnell (Ella/Elles) es una artista, Queer 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe & South Asian, escritora y facilitadora multidisciplinaria nominada a los premios Dora de Teatro. Echa un vistazo a su instagram.    Rhoma Spencer, Actriz, Creadora de Obras Teatrales, Directora y Comediante, Rhoma es una veterana practicante de teatro que ejerce en Toronto desde 2001. Mira su instagram.   “The Party People Collective” es Jord Camp y Elizabeth Staples.  Jord Camp Es un artista de género fluido, género queer, club kid, performer de drag  alternativo en Toronto. Elizabeth Staples es una artistas Bisexual/Queer de performances creadora de teatro, Directora y Administradora de arte nacida y criada en Toronto. Echa un vistazo al instagram de Jordan y el instagram de Elizabeth.   Bibliografía: Bad Dog Theatre Company donde puede encontrar shows y clases de Improvisación en línea. Aquí hay algunos reportes y estadísticas sobre cómo la pandemia ha afectado a las mujeres dentro y fuera del lugar de trabajo. Sofia Fly streams live DJ sets on her Twitch channel most Sundays! The vibes are immaculate.   ¡Sofia Fly transmite sesiones de DJ en vivo en su canal de Twitch la mayoría de los domingos!  Escucha el último álbum de Sofía Fly: Beats II Virgo Rising Compre una copia de la obra de teatro de Yolanda Bonnell “bug” basado en su solo show que se presentó en Theatre Passe Muraille en febrero de 2020. El Festival Bricks & Glitter,  un hagamoslo nosotros mismos festival que celebra el talento, el ingenio, el cariño, la ira y la abundancia de talentos Two-Spirit, trans y queer en Tkaronto. Queerantine de Rhoma Spencer, en colaboración con las artistas Nickeshia Garrick y Jillia Cato. Convergence Theatre’s Covid Confessions, una experiencia de audio inmersiva. The After Party, el show creado por Jord y Elizabeth, también conocidos como Party People Collective.   All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council,  the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Monica Garrido and Camila Diaz-Varela. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook.   Todos los episodios de Merendiando son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de  Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, y  Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint. Radio Aluna Theatre es producido por Camila Díaz-Varela y Mónica Garrido. Para más información sobre Aluna Theatre, visita nuestra página alunatheatre.ca, síguenos en twitter @alunatheatre o en instagram, o haz click en “me gusta” en facebook.  

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Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Katherine is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts New Studio on Broadway for musical theatre and is currently appearing in the only live theatre show in NYC - VOYEUR: The Windows of Toulouse Lautrec . Katherine won the BroadwayWorld for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal as Lola in Damn Yankees and has performed Off-Broadway, across New York City, Toronto, and The United States at such venues as Radio City Music Hall, Berkshire Theatre Group, Woodstock Playhouse, Feinstein's/54 Below, Birdland, Theatre Passe Muraille, Berkely Street Theatre, and the Toronto Fringe Festival.@katherine.winter@voyeurplayhttps://www.unmakinglautrecplay.com/Take Your Career to the Next Level!Work 1-on-1 with Dane, host of You Booked It.

Brenda Kamino is an actor, artist, teacher, and cultural activist. Brenda has been seen as a performer on many of Canada's best known stages for over 40 years. A veteran performer of the Shaw Festival, she has created many roles in new plays at such theatres as Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre and Young Peoples' Theatre in Toronto as well as the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg and Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary. Her theatrical career has taken her from the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to the Citadel in Edmonton in shows as varied as the Dora Award Nominated "Naomi's Road" to "M. Butterfly", working with such directors as Canadians Douglas Campbell, Peter Hinton, Jackie Maxwell, Neil Munro, Dennis Foon, Sue Miner, Ed Roy, Sally Han, Vinetta Strombergs, Ron Jenkins, Nina Aquino and Guillermo Verdecchia, as well as British Director Tudor Davies and American Directors Lane Nishikawa, David Levine and Raul Aranas. Her performance in "suicide notes" by Kenneth Williams for Toronto's Summerworks Festival, garnered her recognition for Outstanding Performance by Now Magazine. Her television and film career includes over 100 guest and lead performances and many years as host, narrator, radio artist and improviser. www.brendakamino.com Support Stageworthy: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

“I’m an ancient recipe that has lost its origin.”   Welcome to the Studio Series: experiments in audio storytelling from some of the most exciting theatre artists from our TransAmerican community in Canada. First you’ll hear a work in process, then a short talk by the artist on their creative process. This presentation is also available in Spanish.    Sharing a meal is an intimate and immediate gesture of love. Reina is a performance ritual that strives to create this same atmosphere. It invokes and celebrates personal femininity and Indigeneity through a collection of memories, stories, recipes, and physical scores in conversation with live afro-venezuelan percussion and vocals by musician Y Josephine. And arepas.   Augusto Bitter is a Dora Award-winning performer, writer, facilitator, and artistic producer based in Toronto. He is a Resident Artist at Aluna Theatre and has been in-residence at Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, and hub14. He has trained with Teatro delle Radici (Switzerland), Manifesto Poetico (Paris), Canada's National Voice Intensive, Aluna Theatre's Interpretation Lab, and the University of Toronto. Augusto is also a youth educator with Soulpepper and Story Planet. He is developing a new piece—Reina—with musician Y Josephine, and his short film cannibal will be a part of Toronto Queer Film Festival 2021. www.augustobitter.com   Y Josephine is a Venezuelan-Canadian, and a citizen of the world, whose contagious passion for percussion has propelled her to travel far and wide sharing her epic fusion sounds of the South. Driven by the potent, soothing, and vibrant music she’s helped to create, she is one of the founders of Baobá, a trio formed by Toronto’s top female percussionists taking traditional beats to the next level. Empowered by the natural musicality that flows from South American bodies, that trio-and-sometimes-quartet, featuring fellow Jamphitheatre-er Anita Graciano alongside Mari Palhares and Carla Dias, represents an ideal balance of voice, melody, and instrumentation bringing new life to, and transcending, Venezuelan, Colombian, and Brazilian traditions. She also is part of the Amao Kuda Et les Bois crue, described by Now Magazine as a "tantalizing afro soul combo of folk, roots, desert blues and African continental music". Y is working with Victoria Mata on Cacao: A Venezuelan Lament and with Augusto Bitter on Reina (both dance-theatre hybrids).    Reina’s development has been supported by Cristina Castrillo and Bruna Gusberti at Teatro delle Radici, Claren Grosz, b current performing arts, Canadian Stage, and Aluna Theatre.    This recording was produced by Aluna Theatre at our studio in Toronto.   Written, performed, and directed by Augusto Bitter Music written and performed by Y Josephine  Sound Engineer, Steph Raposo  Editing and sound design by Miquelon Rodriguez, assisted by Lucia Linares  Head of Production, Monica Garrido  Script co-ordination, Camila Diaz-Varela    All Radio Aluna Theatre episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Metcalf Foundation, and TD Bank.   Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook.  

“Soy una receta antigua que perdió el origen.”   Bienvenidos al Studio Serie: experimentaciones de narrativas de audio creadas por algunos de los artistas de teatro más interesantes de nuestra comunidad TransAmericana en Canadá. En este episodio podrás escuchar un trabajo en proceso, seguido por una breve charla del artista sobre su proceso creativo. Esta presentación también está disponible en Inglés.   Compartir una comida es un gesto de amor íntimo e inmediato. Reina es un ritual de actuación que se esfuerza por crear esta misma atmósfera. Invoca y celebra la feminidad personal y la indigeneidad a través de una colección de recuerdos, historias, recetas y partituras físicas en conversación con percusión afro-venezolana en vivo y en voz de la artista musical Y Josephine. Y arepas.   Augusto Bitter es un intérprete, escritor, facilitador y productor artístico ganador del premio Dora basado en Toronto. Actualmente es artista residente en Aluna Theatre y ha tenido residencias artísticas en Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille y hub14. Augusto ha entrenado en el Teatro delle Radici (Suiza), Manifesto Poetico (París), el National Voice Intensive de Canadá, el Laboratorio de Interpretación de Aluna Theatre y la Universidad de Toronto. Augusto trabaja con jóvenes en programas de educación de Soulpepper y Story Planet. Actualmente está desarrollando—Reina— con la artista musical Y Josephine, y su cortometraje cannibal será parte del Festival de Cine Queer de Toronto 2021. www.augustobitter.com   Y Josephine es una venezolana-canadiense, ciudadana del mundo, cuya contagiosa pasión por la percusión la ha impulsado a viajar por todas partes compartiendo sus épicos sonidos de fusión del Sur. Impulsada por la música potente, relajante y vibrante que ayudó a crear, es una de las fundadoras de Baobá, un trío formado por las mejores percusionistas de Toronto que llevan los ritmos tradicionales al siguiente nivel. Fortalecida por la musicalidad natural que fluye de los cuerpos sudamericanos, ese trío y, a veces, cuarteto, con la compañera de Jamphitheatre-er Anita Graciano junto a Mari Palhares y Carla Dias, representan un equilibrio ideal de voz, melodía e instrumentación que le da nueva vida a y trascienden las tradiciones venezolanas, colombianas y brasileñas. También es parte de Amao Kuda Et les Bois crue, descrita por Now Magazine como una "tentadora combinación de afro soul de folk, roots, desert blues y música continental africana". Y actualmente está trabajando con Victoria Mata en Cacao: A Venezuelan Lament y con Augusto Bitter en Reina (ambos híbridos de danza y teatro).   El desarrollo de la creación de REINA ha sido apoyado por Cristina Castrillo y Bruna Gusberti del Teatro delle Radici, Claren Grosz, b current performing arts, Canadian Stage y Aluna Theatre.   Esta grabación ha sido producida por Aluna Theatre en nuestro estudio en Toronto. Escrita, actuada y dirigida por Augusto Bitter. Música y composición por Y Josephine Ingeniero de Sonido, Steph Raposo Edición y diseño de sonido, Miquelon Rodriguez con asistente, Lucia Linares Jefa de producción, Mónica Garrido  Coordinación de guión, Camila Diaz-Varela    Todos los episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de  Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Metcalf Foundation y TD Bank. Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint.  Para más información sobre Aluna Theatre, visita nuestra página alunatheatre.ca, síguenos en twitter @alunatheatre o en instagram, o haz click en “me gusta” en facebook.

A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Natasha Greenblatt is an actor, director and writer.Natasha has played Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Segal Centre, Theatre Aquarius), Brigid in A Boy Called Newfoundland (Theatre Smash), and Roberta in The Railway Children (Mirvish/Marquis). She was nominated for a Dora Award for her portrayal of Bastian in The Neverending Story (Roseneath Theatre) and won a Dora Award for Get Yourself Home Skyler James (Roseneath Theatre), a solo show that toured high schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Natasha had a recurring role on the Canadian television show Bomb Girls. Most recently, Natasha was part of the 2014-2015 National Arts Centre’s English Theatre Ensemble, where she played Alice, in Alice Through the Looking Glass and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest.As a director, Natasha facilitated and directed This Is Your Script, a collective creation for Paprika Festival for youth between the ages of 17 and 21. She directed Cowboy Mouth, by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, as part of The Playwright Project in May 2013. She was the assistant director for Micheline Chevrier on the Montreal debut production of the Governor General Award winning play, If We Were Birds and for Sarah Stanley on the debut of Beatrice and Virgil at the Factory Theatre. In 2014, Natasha directed The Secret Garden of Lido Pimienta, a theatrical concert commissioned by SummerWorks.Natasha has been part of Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip program for Emerging Playwrights and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Upstarts Unit for Emerging Theatre Creators. She performed her solo show, We Lived in a Palace at the 2008 SummerWorks Festival. She produced her first full-length play, The Peace Maker, directed by Jennifer Brewin, as part of the 2013 Next Stage Festival.Twitter: @natashasama Instagram: natashagreengraceThe ElectionDuring the 2015 Federal Election, a group of theatre artists and makers volunteered for local campaigns. They knocked on doors, phoned voters, and tried to make sense of national stories on a local level while documenting their experience. These personal accounts provided fodder for the new Canadian play The Election, by Natasha Greenblatt and Yolanda Bonnell, in collaboration with the company.In 2019 The Election sparks urgent dialogue just as Canadians take another swing at the ballot box. Exploring the realities of Indigenous, Settler and Newcomer experience with the political process, this play asks: Do we have a voice and does that voice count?Following the wildly successful run of The Public Servant, Common Boots Theatre delivers a provocative and hilarious investigation of how Canadians engage in democracy.The team of six actors (Augusto Bitter, Rachel Cairns, Joelle Peters, Anand Rajaram, Rose Stella, and Courtenay Stevens) take on over 35 characters. Woven throughout the chaos of the federal election are the personal stories of people struggling to make a difference within their own communities and families.www.commonbootstheatre.ca Tickets: https://www.passemuraille.ca/tickets/

We've been leading up to this podcast for a few years now. We're thrilled to announce that coming in April 2020, Theatre Passe Muraille with Anandam Dancetheatre will present a two week run of Ephemeral Artifacts, a full length solo show featuring Travis Knights. Today's guest, Brandy Leary shares insight on the process that will be involved co-creating the piece. Supplemental Music: Atomic Peace - Alice Coltrane Subscribe to the Tap Love Tour Podcast on Soundcloud and itunes: https://soundcloud.com/the-tap-love-tour itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-t…d1051033674?mt=2 Subscribe to the Tap Love Tour Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsSfLevc4PJTChTNkmf5GVw?view_as=subscriber

Watch the video of this episode. What does it mean to be live? Can a hologram be considered performance? Is going to the theatre a private or communal act? And should performing artists embrace and incorporate technological change—or should they resist, and build an oasis from social media and screen time? What on earth is going on with live performance in the digital age? Listen to the first-ever recording of the podcast with a live audience! The panel, moderated by Ben, features Colleen Renihan, Craig Walker and Michael Wheeler of the Dan School of Drama and Music. About the Panel Colleen Renihan Colleen Renihan was delighted to join the Dan School of Drama and Music faculty as a Queen's National Scholar in 2016. She earned a B. Mus. in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, an Artist Diploma in Opera Performance from the Vancouver Academy of Music, and an MA and PhD in Musicology at the University of Toronto in 2011 with generous funding support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her dissertation Sounding the Past was a finalist for the Society for American Music’s Housewright Dissertation Award. Dr. Renihan’s research considers aspects of opera and operatic culture from a postmodern perspective. Inherently interdisciplinary in nature, it explores cultural politics, popular culture, performance theory, temporality, memory theory, opera’s interactions with media (specifically film), and opera’s potential for intervention in current debates in the philosophy of history. Her work has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals, including, most recently, twentieth century music, The Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. Forthcoming publications include an invited chapter on Benjamin Britten’s coronation opera Gloriana to an edited collection for Boydell & Brewer, and a chapter on affective listening in Harry Somers’s Louis Riel for Wilfrid Laurier Press. Two current book projects explore the historiographical dimensions of American postwar opera, and innovation in Canadian opera and music theatre 1970-2010. Dr. Renihan has presented her research at academic conferences in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including chapter and national meetings of the American Musicological Society, and in 2010, she participated in the Society for Music Theory’s graduate student workshop on ‘Music and Narrative’ with Michael Klein. She was a founding member of Operatics (a working group for the interdisciplinary study of opera) at the University of Toronto, a founding member of IPMC (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Music in Canada), and has been involved with several research and writing projects at the Canadian Music Centre. Learn more about Colleen. Craig Walker is Director of the Dan School of Drama and Music and Professor of Drama, and is also cross-appointed to the Departments of English and Cultural Studies. Dr. Walker earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he had taken his earlier degrees in English. He has taught courses in most subjects in Queen's Drama at one time or another. As a director, for the Queen’s Drama, Dr. Walker has directed the world premiere of Orbit, a play about the daughters of Galileo by Jennifer Wise (2014), a double-bill of Michel Tremblay’s Counter Service and Nina Shengold’s Lives of the Great Waitresses (2012), Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (2010), his own adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Drums In the Night (2008), John Lazarus’ Meltdown (2005), Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs (2003), Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (2000), his own translation of Odon von Horvath’s Judgement Day (1999), Richard Rose and D.D. Kugler’s adaptation of Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage (1997), the medieval morality play Everyman (1996) and Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine (1993). From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Walker was Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, during which time the company produced 54 plays, 36 of which were Canadian, including 18 world premieres. On the academic side (see profile on academia.edu), Dr. Walker's most recent publication is "Canadian Drama and the Nationalist Impulse" in The Oxford Handbook to Canadian Literature. He is the author of The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition and co-editor (with Jennifer Wise of the University of Victoria) of The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre, Volumes I and II and The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Concise Edition. He was Book Review Editor for Modern Drama for two years, from 1998 to 2000. In 2009, he was appointed as a Corresponding Scholar at the Shaw Festival. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Learn more about Craig. Michael Wheeler is Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance, an online performance company working at a national scale. His previous position was as Executive Director of Generator, a mentoring, teaching, and innovation incubator that empowers independent artists, producers and leaders in Toronto. He has co-curated The Freefall Festival with The Theatre Centre and HATCH emerging artist projects with Harbourfront Centre. In 2017, he will co-curate the first Festival of Live Digital Art (foldA) at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. As Founding Artistic Director of Praxis Theatre and a theatre director, he has produced and created numerous independent works including Rifles (2 Dora nominations), the World Premiere of Jesus Chrysler by Tara Beagan presented in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, a National Tour of the SummerWorks Award-winning G20 drama You Should Have Stayed Home, and Jesse Brown’s Canadaland World Tour of Canada. Much of Michael’s work has intertwined with online tools, as editor and publisher of websites like PraxisTheatre.com (Winner Best Blog Post & Best Arts and Culture Blog: Canadian Blog Awards), DepartmentOfCulture.ca, AfricaTrilogy.ca, WreckingBall.ca and most recently SpiderWebShow.ca. He holds a BA (distinction) from McGill University and a Masters of Fine Arts from The American Repertory/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Learn more about Michael.

This time on The Bellows we feature a conversation about the genesis and production of Pearle Harbour: Chautauqua, from the spark of an idea to the gathering of the creative team and the final realization in the marvelous 40-seat revival tent installed at Theatre Passe Muraille in October in 2018. A subset of the creative team, creator of the Pearle Harbour persona, Justin Miller, musical director and composer Steven Conway and stage manager Guiseppe Condello discuss the development of a fabulous piece of bouffant theatre and drag performance. The Bellows Toronto is a collective committed to fostering discussion about all issues concerning theatre production and has existed since 2015. The Bellows is Pip Bradford, Rebecca Hooton, Kevin Hutson, Christopher Ross, and Michael Kruse.

Sue Edworthy has worked in theatre, dance and opera organizations in and around Toronto such as Luminato, Opera Atelier, and Theatre Passe Muraille. She is a 2010 Harold Award recipient and recipient of the CharPR Prize for best publicity 2012 and 2013, and the 2015 recipient of the Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Arts Leadership.Sue also runs Sue Edworthy Arts Planning, a freelance marketing/PR, producing and strategic planning company for the Toronto independent arts community.www.sueedworthy.ca@sueedworthy

Straight off the heels of Dr. Silver: A Celebration Of Life, Britta Johnson is sitting joining the conversation on Cue To Cue and is opening up about the wonderful whirlwind the last few years has been for her.   Britta candidly gives us a look into her creative spirit. She opens up she about her creative process, developing confidence in herself as a writer and how we need to “dare to be dreadful” as artists. How much to do I love that!   Are you willing for yourself to fall on your face? Are you willing to go through the process? To get in there and get dirty and at the end of it it is still not what you want? This is the life of an artist.          In this episode:   we discuss the the development of her newest Musical Dr. Silver What the biggest lesson she is learning as a composer and artist in this current moment the value of collaboration and how Britta is discovering how to be able to collaborate with herself and validate her own ideas How being The Musical Stage Company’s inaugural crescendo artist has pushed her to grow and the process of producing 3 new works in 3 years. How neither of us has seen star wars.   A little about Britta: Britta Johnson is a writer, composer, and lyricist. Her writing credits include:  Life After (Canadian Stage/Musical Stage/Yonge Street Theatricals; Dora Award Best New Musical, Best Musical Production). With her sister Anika Johnson: Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life (Outside the March/Musical Stage Company), Brantwood (Theatre Sheridan; Dora Award for Audience Choice), Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (YPT; Dora Nominee Best new musical), Trap Door (Theatre Sheridan, book by Morris Panych). With Sara Farb: Kelly V.Kelly (Theatre Sheridan CMTP), Reframed (Acting Up Stage Company/AGO; Dora nominee Best New Musical). With Katherine Cullen: Stupidhead! (Theatre Passe Muraille; Dora Nominee Best New Play). She will make her American debut in the new year when Life After is staged at the Old Globe in San Diego. She is the inaugural Crescendo Artist with the Musical Stage Company, which includes a commitment to produce 3 of her shows in 3 years.   Follow Britta! Instagram: @brittamcjohnson Get Your Tickets for Life After at the Old Globe  Buy Tickets!    Follow Cue To Cue:  F: @thisischelseajohnson I:@thisichelseajohnson T: @thisischelseaj w: www.thisischelseajohnson.com  

Its time for another presentation of The Bellows! This time a discussion with stage manager Megan Speakman, stagehand Sally Roberts, and designer Simon Rossiter about unions and associations and how they work to protect the rights of the theatre workers they represent. the conversation took place at Theatre Passe Muraille on September 21st, 2018. The Bellows Toronto is a collective committed to fostering discussion about all issues concerning theatre production and has existed since 2015. The Bellows is Pip Bradford, Rebecca Hooton, Kevin Hutson, Christopher Ross, and Michael Kruse.

Julie Eng, Daniel Zuckerbot and David Peck talk about their new film The Science of Magic, change blindness, assumptions, subverting reality, free will, doubt and the problems of perception. Synopsis Magic has become the latest investigative tool for scientists exploring human cognition, neurobiology, and behaviour. Across Canada, the US and Europe, our film follows researchers who are bringing magicians’ tricks into the laboratory.  With impossible magic, amazing facts, and opportunities for viewers to participate in the magic, this extraordinary exploration peeks behind the curtain into a fascinating world where ancient magic meets modern science.  Canadian magician and executive director of the arts organization Magicana, Julie Eng not only mystifies us with magic, she also takes us to Montreal’s McGill University to meet Jay Olson. He is one of the scientists spearheading this novel and powerful approach to experimental psychology.  On the streets of Montreal Julie and Jay use card tricks to help us understand how magic can be used to explore human consciousness. But these simple tricks have given way to more elaborate experiments. We join Jay at the Montreal Neurological Institute for an extraordinary demonstration involving an MRI machine that can apparently not only read minds but can even use its electromagnetic fields to manipulate your most private thoughts.  Watch the trailer here. Biography Julie Eng is best described as a charming and enchanting performer who is passionate about her craft. Both her peers and her clients consider this award-winning magicienne one of the up-and-coming performers of her generation. Her interest in magic began early; raised in a family of magicians, she has been a stage performer since she was a child. As she earned her Commerce degree, Julie’s true love for the unique art of magic blossomed into a career. And now, for over three decades, Julie has brought her magical expertise to thousands of private functions, festivals, conventions and special events around the globe. Julie is also the executive director of Magicana – an arts organization and registered charity dedicated to the study, exploration and advancement of magic as a performing art. Inside of her work with Magicana, Julie is one of the founding organizers for two unique community outreach programs, My Magic Hands and Senior Sorcery. Julie was also a part of another one of Magicana’s productions, a theatrical show, Piff Paff Poof which was designed specifically to introduce the experience of the theatre to young families.   Over the years, Julie has developed a refreshing and distinctive style – a mix of elegance, surprise and humour – that has made her a popular entertainment choice. Whether on stage or mingling with her audience, Julie’s magic is distinguished by her dexterous skill, confident presentation and professional manner. Julie has also received accolades from her fellow magicians, who have invited her to perform at magic conventions across North America. She has been featured in, MAGIC, Genii and The Linking Ring, internationally distributed trade magazine. Julie’s energetic performances are well suited to a multitude of venues: corporate receptions, trade shows and product launches, hospitality suites, conventions and client appreciation and development events. Julie’s style, charm and repertoire have consistently garnered high praise from her clients, including some of the largest and most creative companies in Canada and the United States. Daniel Zuckerbort’s first experience in the Canadian film industry was in 1974 when, while studying history of science, religion and philosophy at the University of Waterloo, he got a summer job as a researcher for a documentary. Though only 20 at the time this was far from his earliest foray into the Canadian art scene. At the age of 15 he began working as an assistant in the technical crew at Theatre Passe Muraille. This was in 1969 and Passe Muraille was the centre of avante garde theatre. In recent years Daniel’s specifically theatre related work has been limited to directing actors in some of his productions as well as having made a number of documentaries about performers. A working magician himself for some years, he taught magic privately and for the Toronto Board of Education. He is also one of the founding board member of Magicana a registered charity dedicated to the exploration of magic as a performing art and to increasing the public’s understanding and appreciation of this art. For more information see www.magicana.com From the early 80s, through much of the 90s he was also involved managing the organization and activities of large groups of volunteers. These activities included helping organize neighborhood newspapers in Canada and abroad (including England, Scotland, Iceland, and Jamaica). Daniel is fluent in Spanish. His interests in the history of technology have come to a happy meeting in his current experiments in textile production, dye chemistry and casting metal (copper, bronze, brass, and iron) using kilns and crucibles that he has built himself. His creative endeavors are not limited to film or the forge. He is a writer in a range of genres and one of his short writings was published in the Spring 2011 edition of the literary journal Descant. ---------- Image Copyright: Julie Eng and Daniel Zuckerbot and Reel Time Images. Used with permission. For more information about his podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

*UPDATED* After some minor technical difficulties, full episode is now uploaded! Apologies! - Lynn and Steve discuss After Wrestling, Bunny, and Theatre Passe Muraille's new staging of The Drawer Boy.

Kat Sandler Kat Sandler is a writer, director and the Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha. She has directed twelve of her original plays in the last six years, including Toronto Best of Fringe hits Bright Lights, Punch Up and Help Yourself (winner of the New Play Contest), Delicacy(Summerworks Spotlight Award), and Liver, Cockfight and Retreat (Storefront Theatre). Other directing credits include Big Plans, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Cabaret, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia. She was a member of the Tarragon Playwrights Unit, where she developed, Mustard (Dora Mavor Moore Award, Outstanding New Play) and is currently the Canada Council Playwright in Residence at Tarragon. She was the 2015 recipient of NOW Magazine’s Audience Choice Award for Best Director and Best Playwright. Kat is a graduate of the Queen’s University Drama Program.Twitter:@katsandlerInstagram: ksandler24Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Donna-Michelle St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest is an emcee, playwright, administrator and agitator. She has worked as a dramaturge with Keith Barker, Celia Green, Fiona Rae Clarke, Camila Diaz Varela, Joseph Tisiga, Tylor Pennock and The Movement Project. DM is emcee in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille and playwright in residence at lemonTree Creations. Upcoming: Forbidden with Afarin Mansouri for Tapestry54ology.wordpress.comTwitter: @BelladonnaNHPBang Bang A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young Black man by a police officer as a “jumping off point” for his hit play that is soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood comes knocking for the writer, he makes a surprise visit to the home of the officer involved. With Sandler’s trademark wit, BANG BANG traces the impact of what it means to be inspired by true events. Bang Bang runs January 27–February 18, 2018 at Factory Theatre.Tickets:https://www.factorytheatre.ca/2017-18-season/bang-bang/Twitter:@FactoryToronto Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FactoryTheatreTO/Stageworthy:http://www.stageworthypodcast.com Twitter @stageworthyPod Facebook: http://facebook.com/stageworthyPod

Another installment of the Bellows for this episode. This is a compliment to the previous episode on Contracts and Fees we did earlier in 2017. This time with production manager Erin Birkenbirgs and producer Sue Balint. This covered areas we did not have a chance in the last episode and I am sure you will learn even more from this discussion. The Bellows was recorded on September 23 2017 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. As normal, the panel discussion was moderated by Kevin Hutson and hosted by Christopher Ross.

Nina Okens is a Toronto based Designer. Her work has been seen in such productions as Pea Green Theatre Group’s Clique Claque and Three Men in a Boat, Cahoots Theatre Company and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Ultrasound, Théâtre Français de Toronto’s Albertine En Cinq Temps. She has also designed subtitles for recent productions at Théâtre Français de Toronto.Stageworthy:http://www.stageworthypodcast.com Twitter @stageworthyPod Facebook: http://facebook.com/stageworthyPod

Pearle Harbour's Chautauqua is a darkly comic, wildly immersive extravaganza - part cabaret, part tragicomedy, and part tent revival. Pass through the milky folds of Pearle's beautiful Tent, and be sheltered from the inharmony of our troubled times. The world may be falling apart, but Pearle will show you there's more that unites us than divides us.website: pearleharbour.comfacebook.com/thepearleharbourinsta: @pearleharbourShow link: www.summerworks.ca/artists/pearle-harbours-chautauquawww.facebook.com/events/237748573390455Pearle Harbour is an all-American gal who's sweet-as-pie and sharp-as-nails, Pearle Harbour was born on [information withheld], when America was still Great. During the War, she served as a stewardess aboard top-secret bomber missions, including [information withheld], and even [information withheld]! An accomplished soloist - on the boards and in the sheets - Pearle has played to audiences at The RISER Project (Why Not Theatre), Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, Opera5, The Comedy Bar, The Wrecking Ball, Videofag, Nightwood Theatre, Pressgang Storytelling, Clay & Paper Theatre, The Gladstone Hotel, and countless cabarets, concerts, and clubs across Ontario.Justin Miller is a Dora-nominated writer, actor, and solo performer. He has studied with internationally renowned performers, including Philippe Gaulier, John Turner (Mump & Smoot), Karen Hines (The Pochsy Plays, Crawlspace), Carlos Garcia Estevez, Katrien Van Beurden, and Denise Fujiwara. He is the co-founder of Pearle Harbour Presents, and is currently an artist-in-residence at Theatre Passe Muraille.

The Seat Next to the King Behind the door of a public washroom in a Washington, D.C. park, two lives linked to the country's most influential figures collide when a white man seeking a sexual encounter meets a black male stranger. Winner of the 2017 Toronto Fringe FesIval New Play Contest, this bold, affecting piece tackles race, sex, the meaning of 'manhood', and the cost of reconciling each for two disparate human beings with a shared innate need. Featuring blistering performances by Kwaku Okyere and Conor Ling, The Seat Next To The King is directed by Tanisha Taitt.The Seat Next to the King was the winner of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival New Play ContestTanisha Taitt - DirectorTanisha is a director/actor/playwright/arts educator/activist and accidental essayist. She has worked with Obsidian, NAC, The Musical Stage Company, Nightwood, BIBT and Soulpepper, and spent two seasons as a Resident Artist-Educator with YPT. Tanisha is a Drama mentor for tdsbCreates, a TDSB/TAC initiative that brings professional artists into classrooms to nurture artistic expression in students and teachers. She is an Anti-Oppression facilitator and Director of the Peace Camp program for Children's Peace Theatre, an organization that teaches young people about conflict transformation through theatre. Also a singer and songsmith, she is a recipient of the Canadian Music Publishers Association Songwriters Award for excellence in songwriting. Tanisha spent 7 years as the Toronto and then the National producer for V-Day/One Billion Rising -- the global movement to end violence against women and girls. In 2014, she founded Teenage Graceland, a youth theatre collective that challenges societal attitudes leading to gender-based violence. Tanisha was 'Harolded' in 2013 and in 2015, critic Lynn Slotkin bestowed upon her an inaugural “Tootsie” Award in the “They Can Do Anything” category. She is currently writing two musical theatrical works: FORCE, a musical about rape; and ERACED, which began when she heard the voices of unarmed dead black men singing to her in her sleep. Tanisha is the new co-host of The HUM Human Rights & the Arts podcast and will make her hosting debut this June. She is a two-time YWCA Woman of Distinction nominee for her commitment to artistic excellence and social justice.Steven Elliott Jackson – PlaywrightSteven Elliott Jackson was the recipient of the 2017 Best New Play at the Toronto Fringe for “The Seat Next To The King” and previously placed second in the contest in 2007 for “The State Of Tennessee”. He is the Artistic Director for Minmar Gaslight Productions as well as its family theatre company, 3 Little Bears Productions with his partner Todd Davies. Previous credits: Brothers And Arms (2010, Toronto Fringe Festival), The Dark Part Of The Snow (2011, Mount Marty College, Yankton, ND), Real Life Superhero (2012, Toronto Dance Theatre), The State Of Tennessee (2013, Theatre Passe Muraille), Rapunzel (adaptation, 2014, Toronto Kids Fringe/Stage Centre Productions), Threesome (2016, Red Sandcastle Theatre). Upcoming Productions: The Prince’s Big Adventure (Nov. 2017, Stage Centre Productions), A Question Of Character (Jan. 2017/ Stage Centre Productions), Real Life Superhero (Spring 2018, Brandon, MB) and currently he is developing Kick Start: Featuring the music of Lisa Loeb for a future reading.

Daniel Zuckerbrot and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Michelangelo, The Nature of Things, capital “T” truth, documentary storytelling and science. For more info on Reel Time Images head here. Biography Daniel’s first experience in the Canadian film industry was in 1974 when, while studying history of science, religion and philosophy at the University of Waterloo, he got a summer job as a researcher for a documentary. Though only 20 at the time this was far from his earliest foray into the Canadian art scene. At the age of 15 he began working as an assistant in the technical crew at Theatre Passe Muraille. This was in 1969 and Passe Muraille was the centre of avante garde theatre. In recent years Daniel’s specifically theatre related work has been limited to directing actors in some of his productions as well as having made a number of documentaries about performers. A working magician himself for some years, he taught magic privately and for the Toronto Board of Education. He is also one of the founding board member of Magicana a registered charity dedicated to the exploration of magic as a performing art and to increasing the public’s understanding and appreciation of this art. For more information see www.magicana.com From the early 80s, through much of the 90s he was also involved managing the organization and activities of large groups of volunteers. These activities included helping organize neighborhood newspapers in Canada and abroad (including England, Scotland, Iceland, and Jamaica). Daniel is fluent in Spanish. His interests in the history of technology have come to a happy meeting in his current experiments in textile production, dye chemistry and casting metal (copper, bronze, brass, and iron) using kilns and crucibles that he has built himself. His creative endeavors are not limited to film or the forge. He is a writer in a range of genres and one of his short writings was published in the Spring 2011 edition of the literary journal Descant. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode we once again return to The Bellows, a monthly informal discussion about theatre production that is recorded in Toronto, this time at Theatre Passe Muraille on November 16th, 2016. Carpenter and Bellows founder Kevin Hutson moderates a Q and A with some of Toronto theatre production's bright lights, with questions poised by the Bellows audience. Taking the spotlight this time are Bellows veterans Remington North and Dave Degrow, as well as Rebecca Hooten and newly minted theatre technician Cameron Kirk. They are asked a number of smart questions about their career in theatre and their thoughts on theatre production, while Kevin makes sure their ego's do not get too inflated.

In this week’s episode I sit down with Sara Farb. Sara Farb is a performer and playwright who has spent the last several seasons performing at the Stratford Festival. In our conversation today we discuss how she was introduced to theatre, the importance of finding like-minded people in the industry and creating bonds with those people, as well as her experiences working at the Stratford Festival. She also speaks about the creation of her show R-E-B-E-C-C-A, which was performed at Theatre Passe Muraille, and discusses the important things she learned about her self and playwriting through that process.

In this week’s episode I sit down with Sara Farb. Sara Farb is a performer and playwright who has spent the last several seasons performing at the Stratford Festival. In our conversation today we discuss how she was introduced to theatre, the importance of finding like-minded people in the industry and creating bonds with those people, as well as her experiences working at the Stratford Festival. She also speaks about the creation of her show R-E-B-E-C-C-A, which was performed at Theatre Passe Muraille, and discusses the important things she learned about her self and playwriting through that process.

On this episode we return to The Bellows, a monthly informal discussion about working in the theatre recorded live at Theatre Passe Muraille. For this discussion, the guest panel spoke about that dreaded time of year: Tax Season. If you are a working artist and the end of April always raises your heart rate, please listen to this comprehensive talk about how to organize yourself to make tax-time easier.

This special The Bellows episode features carpenter Kevin Hutson, our moderator, joining writer/director Kat Sandler, technical director Dean Johnson, independent producer Aislinn Rose, technician and stage manager Pip Bradford, and designer and technician Rebecca Vandevelde discussing how to work with your friends while remaining professional. It was recorded live at Theatre Passe Muraille on January 18th. The first 10 minutes of the introductions was lost because SOMEone forgot to hit record: it happens. This audio starts with with Rebecca Vandevelde introducing herself. As well, the audio has been panned in order to facilitate the identification of the speaker with the audio field being layed out as they presented: Kevin, Kat (who joins later), Dean, Aislinn, Pip, and Rebecca. KEVIN HUTSON Kevin is the head carpenter at The Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and one of the founders of The Bellows. Kevin has also performed as a production manager, technical director, lighting designer and general technician in Toronto for may years. DEAN JOHNSON A technician and technical director in Toronto. KAT SANDLER Kat is a writer/actor/director working in Toronto. She is the Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha, and has staged six or her original plays; LOVESEXMONEY (Next Stage Festival), Help Yourself (Best of Fringe, winner of the Fringe New Play Contest), Delicacy (Summerworks), Rock (Storefront Theatre), We Are the Bomb (Toronto Fringe, Sucker (Storefront Theatre) and directed Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton, and The Unseen Hand (Playwrights Project). As an actor she has appeared onstage with Theatre Gargantua in the world premieres of FiBBer and Imprints. She is a graduate of Queen’s University. Kat will be writing Retreat while in Tarragon’s Playwrights Unit. AISLINN ROSE Aislinn is an independent producer, theatre maker, member of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ Board of Directors, and Co-Chair of TAPA’s Indie Caucus. She recently joined the producing team for Luminato’s 2013 festival as Associate Producer, and produced the festival’s L’Allegro by the Mark Morris Dance Group, Feng Yi Ting directed by Atom Egoyan, and Ronnie Burkett’s The Daisy Theatre. This year she will be guest curating Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH 2014 season along with her Praxis Theatre colleague, Michael Wheeler. As the Artistic Producer of Praxis Theatre & Co-Editor of praxistheatre.com, she led the Open Source Theatre Project for Section 98 at Harbourfront Centre, created the experimental Dungeons & Dragons (not) The Musical, was Artistic Producer of You Should Have Stayed Home, and Producer for Jesus Chrysler in Association with Theatre Passe Muraille. She will be producing their upcoming cross Canada tour of You Should Have Stayed Home in Whitehorse, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. She and Michael Wheeler were named Theatre VIPs for 2012 by Toronto paper, The Grid, after having been named “People to watch” that year by Torontoist. Last year she produced Aluna Theatre’s inaugural PANAMERICAN ROUTES Festival of Theatre for Human Rights, and was Co-Producer with Fides Krucker on the electroacoustic opera Julie Sits Waiting (nominated for 5 Dora Awards including Outstanding Production – Opera/Musical). Other recent projects include producing The Lesson For Modern Times Stage Company (nominated for 8 Dora Awards, including Outstanding Production). Social media experiments include working as a consultant & online creator for the sold-out run of Michael Healey’s Proud and developing “The Brain”, the online counterpart for Liza Balkan’s Out The Window for The Theatre Centre’s biennial Free Fall Festival. Aislinn is the recent recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development grant as an Independent Theatre Producer. SARAH ‘PIP’ BRADFORD Pip has lived and worked in the Toronto theatre community for the past five years. She freelances as a technician and stage manager for many companies in Toronto, inclu

This week a special episode recorded on November 16th, 2015 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. The Bellows is a monthly panel discussion on the art and business of theatre production which promises to create "a place for artists in performance to get together, share information, and get to know more about the production side of the business." Created by Sarah "Pip" Bradford, Kevin Hutson and Christopher Ross, the discussion is curated by working professionals and should appeal to new comer's and veteran's alike. The Title Block has teamed up with The Bellows to record and broadcast live via Periscope these panels so that they reach a wider audience and every working or aspiring production person can benefit. In this episode the panel, made up of Kevin Hutson, Jason Golinksi, Shanna Miller, and Ray Salverda, discuss how to get hired and stay working in the theatre. Ever wonder how to set and negotiate your fee? The panel may have your answer. This is the first in many recordings and the next one will be broadcast live via Periscope on January 18th 2015, so don't miss it!

This is a recording of a forum held in Toronto, Ontario at Theatre Passe Muraille about the challenge we face of building and sustaining future theatre audiences. Hosted by Sheila Skye, Derrick Chua, and Sue Edworthy.

This episode features Toronto based designer Jim Plaxton. Jim's 30 year career oversaw the start of many importantToronto theatre companies, including Toronto Workshop Productions, Theatre Passe Muraille as well as the start of Toronto Dance Theatre. In this first half we speak about Jim's early career in architecture and his transition first to film and then to dance and live performance. We also speak about his influence on the renovations of Theatre Passe Muraille in 1982 and his stint there as its co-artisitic director with Layne Coleman and Clark Rogers.

Michelle Ramsay, a Toronto-based lighting designer, agreed to be my guinea pig for episode one of the podcast. This is the first of two 30 min sessions we taped. Here is Michelle's bio (updated March 18 2014)Michelle is a lighting designer for dance and theatre based in Toronto.Companies she has designed with include: Modern Times, Cahoots Theatre Company, Blue Ceiling Dance, fu-Gen, The Theatre Centre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Stand Up Dance, New Harlem, Shaw Festival, Human Cargo, Theatre Rusticle, National Arts Centre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Mirvish Productions, Theatre Passe Muraille and Tarragon Theatre. She has received several Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a SATAward, and in 2008 she received the Pauline McGibbon Award.The beginning has a few rough audio spots, with some "peakyness" but I should be able to iron out the problems in the future.In the interview we refer to "Wonderland" and failed to give any context. Canada's Wonderland is an amusement park north of Toronto, ON, and was a training ground for many young technicians just out of school. Other things we glanced over: The Shaw FestivalTheatre Smith GilmoreTheatre ColumbusTheatre KingstonRedManual Lighting Boards

In this episode we cover the final show of the GCTC season: Daniel MacIvor's "This is What Happens Next" playing in the Irving Greenberg Theatre in partnership with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival; Third Wall Theatre's "Exit the King" directed by James Richardson and starring Andy Massingham; and "YICHUD (Seclusion)", another Magnetic North show, originally from Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, playing in Academic Hall at the University of Ottawa.