hiraeth
An odd couple comedy about a tiny tragedy
"A dimensional comedy, an excavation" 12thnight.ca
"hiraeth brings levity to human longing" Edmonton Journal
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The Garneau Block
Based on Todd Babiak's novel "The Garneau Block"
Commissioned and produced by
September, 2021
Directed by Rachel Peake
"Our grief is in that house. We were a happy little neighbourhood, and then one of our number did a terrible, desperate thing. Our guilt is in that house. It should be our responsibility to make it well again."
Artwork by Pete Nguyen
Inferno
Co-written with Jocelyn Ahlf
Produced by
Firefly Theatre and Circus
Workshop Production January 2019
Directed by Annie Dugan
Adapted from Dante's Inferno, a play that fuses music, dance, and circus
Photo by Marc Chalifoux
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Category E
"There's certainly a dash of Pinter's The Dumb Waiter here, not to mention a little bit of Beckett's Endgame" - J.Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail
"An extraordinary play" - Joe Szekeres, Onstage Blog
Photo by Tim Leyes
Category E
"A sitcom setup dropped into an antiseptic chamber of horrors...A blistering condemnation of our willful brutality and venality in animal science" - Liz Nicholls, 12thNight.ca
"Profoundly disturbing" - Vue Weekly
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards:
Best New Play
Best Independent Production
Best Supporting Actress
Best Lighting Design
Best Multi Media Design
Photo by Marc Chalifoux
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Little Elephants
Produced by
Shadow Theatre, 2012
Directed by John Hudson
A comedy about a gently eccentric English family trying to keep it together.
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards:
Best New Play
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Thrubwell's Pies
Produced by
Teatro La Quindicina, 2009
Directed by Jeff Haslam
A delicious supernatural thriller!
"Smacks its lips on the resonant creepiness of Gothic English villages where everyone is just a bit sinister...an intricate achievement, macabre but light" - Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal
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Diamond Dog
Produced by
Ribbit Productions/Panties Productions
Directed by Kenneth Brown
A crime caper of canine proportions!
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations:
Best New Play
Best Independent Production
Photo by Ian Jackson