hiraeth
An odd couple comedy about a tiny tragedy
"A dimensional comedy, an excavation" 12thnight.ca
"hiraeth brings levity to human longing" Edmonton Journal
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
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
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
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