PLAYWRIGHT - SELECTED FULL-LENGTH PLAYS  

Cult Play is a suspenseful multi-platform solo show in which audience participation is essential to the story. Our live performer, Alex, shares photos, videos, and other artifacts to show the audience how she fell in love with Taylor, who lured her into a cult. She frames the performance as a thought experiment told in the second person. The refrain “what if you ___” builds to the play’s ultimate question: what if this happened to you?    

• Workshop -  Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2024. Director: Annie Valentina. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef.

• Workshop -  Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2023. Director: Krista Jackson. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef. 

• Residency - Imago Theatre, 2023.  

• Publication - 2SLGBTQ+ Monologue Anthology, Playwrights Canada Press, 2023.  

• Residency - Gros Morne National Park, 2022.  

• Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit, 2022 - Ongoing. Dramaturg: Brian Drader. Director: Thomas Morgan Jones (2022 - 2024). 

• Writing Grant - Manitoba Arts Council, 2021.

• Digital Dramaturgy Initiative - Manitoba Association of Playwrights and VideoPool, 2021. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef.  

O Death is a nuanced exploration of trans and queer identity, cancel culture, and the legacy of our cultural icons. In O Death, trans musician James and his sister Caddy are about to go on tour when James is publicly called out for crossing a line with a fan. As they stay with their rock legend grandfather Alden Hass during his final days, Caddy and James attempt to survive the call-out while resisting the intoxicating allure of fame.

• Workshop and Reading -  Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2023. Director: Annie Valentina. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef.

• Residency -  Riding Mountain National Park, 2022. 

• Residency -  Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2022. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef. Cultural dramaturg: Elio Zarrillo. 

• PD/Travel Grant -  Manitoba Arts Council, 2022.  

• Collective in Residence -  Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, 2021. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef. 

• Workshop - Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2020. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef.

• Workshop - Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2021. Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah Elkashef.

• Writing Residency - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2018.  

• Writing Grant - Toronto Arts Council, 2017.  

• Theatre Creators Reserve Grants - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2017.  

• Theatre Creators Reserve Grant - Nightwood Theatre, 2017.  

• Residency - Artscape Gibraltar Point, 2017.  

This is the August follows Edie, a YouTube star who has just gone viral. Her girlfriend Bea, a professor and documentary filmmaker, wants Edie to focus on more “important” work than vlogs about her sex life. Together, they passionately negotiate their identities: Millennial vs. Boomer, student vs. professor, lover vs. adversary. These conflicts of identity come to a head when Edie meets Sam, a multimedia artist who defies definition.

• Residency - Sanctuary Queer Arts, Edinburgh, UK, 2022. Dramaturg: Drew Taylor-Wilson. 

• Grant - Manitoba Arts Council, 2022.  

• Production - SummerWorks Performance Festival, 2016. Director: Megan Piercey Monafu.   

• Theatre Projects Grant - Ontario Arts Council, 2016.  

• Staged Reading - Nightwood Theatre Company, 2015. Director: Andrea Donaldson. 

• Workshop - The Young Centre for Performing Arts, 2014. Director: Judith Thompson.   

• Write from the Hip Playwright’s Unit - Nightwood Theatre, 2014 - 2015. Director: Andrea Donaldson. 

• Residency - She Said Yes! Mail-Order Dramaturgy, 2012 - 2013. Dramaturg: Lois Brown.  

PLAYWRIGHT - SHORT PLAYS    

Lodged in the Body centers on two women assaulted by the same man who meet to decide whether they will come forward. Their conversation is punctuated by physical manifestations of their trauma, with their bodies overtaken by the words used to manipulate and abuse them.

• Production - Canada and Netherlands Tour, Theatre of the Beat, 2018-2019. Toured across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Netherlands. Reached over 2000 people. Director: Matt White. 

DRAMATURGY - NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT    

Into the Circle by Elizabeth and Beverly Glenn Copeland.  

From Stardust by Annie Valentina. 

• Workshop - Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, November 2024. 

Tahiti by Megan Piercey Monafu. 

• Workshop - Funded by the City of Ottawa, supported by ArtEngine and the Ottawa Fringe Festival. Ottawa, 2024. 

• Workshop - Funded by TACTICS Ottawa, hosted by Artengine. Public presentation of concept and beta videos. Ottawa, 2022. 

Waver by Kristy Pickering. 

• Production - The Tron, Glasgow, UK, 2023. Director: Drew Taylor-Wilson.    

Narrow Bridge by Daniel Thau-Eleff. 

• Production - Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, 2023. Director: Tracey Erin Smith.    

Manipogo by Jean van der Merwe. 

• Production - One Trunk Theatre, Winnipeg, 2023. Director: Joshua Banman.

Strata Inc. by Megan Piercey Monafu.

• Production: STAGES Festival, Dartmouth, 2024. Director: Megan Piercey Monafu. 

• Production: Artengine, Ottawa, 2023. Director: Megan Piercey Monafu. 

• Production - Undercurrents Festival, 2021. Director:  Megan Piercey Monafu. 

• Premiere - Technology firm Rebel.com, Ottawa, 2020. Director:  Megan Piercey Monafu.

• Workshop and Reading - ArtsCourt, Ottawa, 2019. Facilitator: Scout Rexe. 

• Workshop - Dancemakers, Toronto, 2019. Facilitator: Scout Rexe. 

• Recipient of the Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award 2019. 

• SSHRC-funded development phase with public reading, 2016. Director: Chris Abraham. 

Help by Megan Piercey Monafu. 

• Workshop and Public Reading - Artscape Youngplace, supported by the University of Guelph MFA in Creative Writing program, 2017. Director: Megan Piercey Monafu.

Are We Not Horses by Jacob Zimmer. 

• Production - SummerWorks Festival, 2017. Director: Jacob Zimmer.  

Check Your Friends by Jacob Zimmer. 

• Site-Specific Performance - Toronto, 2017. Director: Jacob Zimmer.  

JURIES & ADVISORY    

• Playwrights Workshop Montréal - Gros Morne Residency Jury, 2023.  

• Manitoba Arts Council, 2023.  

• University of Guelph MFA in Creative Writing Program, 2012 - 2014. 

   

EDUCATION  (SELECTED)

• MFA in Creative Writing - University of Guelph, 2012.  

• BA in Creative Writing - Concordia University, 2009. 

FURTHER TRAINING (SELECTED)

• Truth and Reconciliation Through Right Relations - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity - 2024.

• Recognition, Relationship and Resilience – A Framework for Trauma-Informed Post-Secondary Education (TIPSE) from BC Campus - 2023.

• Leadership - The School of Life - 2022.

• Diplomacy - The School of Life - 2021.

• Indigenous Canada from the University of Alberta (Coursera) - 2021.

• More than Words: Developing Anti-Racist Pedagogies from BC Campus - 2021.

• The Science of Well-Being - Yale University (Coursera) - 2020

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)

• English Literature - Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, Montréal - 2017 - 2018

• Guest Lecture, This is the August - University of Toronto, Toronto - 2017

• Communications - Humber College, Toronto - 2012 - 2017

• Scriptwriting & Storytelling - Humber College, Toronto - 2015 - 2016