6 in the Six: Confessions from Theatre School
These boundaries are unique in every situation… But I was nineteen, without boundaries yet. And my sense of self was easily shaken.
What Dance Can Learn From Theatre
There is a way to use theatrical methods to push dance practice forward, to create the change that must occur for workplace misconduct to subside.
6 in the Six: Wrestling with “Success”
The week of September 20, 2012, I was on the cover of NOW Magazine. I also couldn’t pay my rent.
Some Things I’ve Learned Lately About Words
You can create an epic by cupping your hand and creating a little performance right there in your palm.
Sarah Kane’s Been Dead For 23 Years. I Still Don’t Know How to Thank Her.
My letters to you are a once-a-year digestif, an acknowledgment of gratitude, of lineage, of love.
The Apocalypse Onstage
In my defence, it sounded like a great idea at the time. Back around Halloween, daily case counts in the province were lingering around the low-hanging 350 mark. Indoor capacity limits had just been lifted just about everywhere. And I was walking around town with a spring in my step that could only be attributed … Continued
The Ride Worth Taking: Finding the Joy in Theatre-Making in an Isolated World
I forgot how smart I am. I became jealous of my peers. I became cynical. Theatre stopped being creative, expansive and hopeful.
It’s Not Me, It’s You — Unless It’s Me
If Canadian Theatre were to say, “it’s not you, it’s me,” it would be true. But has that line ever actually made anyone feel better?
As If By Fate: Returning to Hell and Re-Opening Hadestown
Broadway actor Jewelle Blackman reflects on the strange and sentimental reality of returning to Hadestown after the pandemic.
Finding the Liminal in Sort Of
To be totally clear, I was not forced into creating a TV show inspired by some of my life events in which I would also play the lead character. I wanted this.
The Art of Not Picking A Lane
Both jobs require strong communication and storytelling. Both fill me with a sense of meaning in a difficult world, and the more I dissect them, the less I am able to find where one ends and the other begins.
Views from the Stage: It Ironically Looks Like Real Life
Theatre artist Brenda Kamino reminisces on her career and her success as an advocate for Non Traditional Casting in this special edition Artist Perspective for the 2021 Toronto Fringe.
Settlers and Indians
It was summer of 1982, and my parents had enrolled me in Camp Cabot, a day camp run by the St. John’s YMCA. Every morning I, along with the sixty other campers and a dozen teenage counsellors, travelled on rickety school buses to reach the campsite, a vast, wooded area a few kilometres outside the … Continued
It’s a Beautiful Day for Brunch and to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor
Carly Anna Billings and Patrick Teed describe the inspiration for their upcoming Hamilton Fringe show on toxic wokeness and its implications within an anti-Black world.
Tales from a Disabled Theatre School Grad
The assumption was that a disabled person can’t be a physically strong or attractive individual… the assertion was repeated so much that I internalized it: I reduced myself to just an actor who, due to my disability, could only play “bit” roles or disabled characters.
Octopus and Jameson: The View from Haeundae Beach
Canadian actor Alex Weiner reflects on his time in South Busan for the 2014 Busan International Film Festival, a period of his life punctuated by Jameson, lavish parties, and, yes, octopus.
