Photo credit: Rachael King Johnson
I am a theatre maker and director primarily focused on the creation of new work for the stage. (I dabble in film too). I have directed for and collaborated with some of the most innovative companies from across Canada such as Crow’s Theatre, The Musical Stage Company, Hip.Bang!, Rumble Theatre, Aux Écuries and Théâtre La Seizième. I work with bigger institutions too, like the Stratford Festival and the Arts Club; and enjoy directing the next generation of actors at theatre schools.
My theatrical interests are broad from staging classical texts to sketch comedy to contemporary puppetry to musicals to radically intimate performance installations. I have now embraced the new opportunities presented in film, with my animated short "Prométhée au féminin" (VIFF) and the filmed concert version of "Ghost Quartet".
I’d say that not afraid of risk, of bending physical space and theatrical conventions to offer a different point of entry into the arts for younger and more adventurous audiences. I’m an artist with very playful conceptions of dramatic convention – my shows operate under one set of rules and then they subvert those rules ever so slightly, again and again. My work has been described as trippy, intelligent and wildly inventive.
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“As an artist, I believe in a theatre that dares and refuses to leave the audience indifferent, a theatre that nourishes its audience’s capacity to feel, and engages our hearts, minds and senses. I believe that our lives will remain essentially mysterious, and I want to tell stories in which the audience experiences mystery itself. ”
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