The Understudy
Every working actor on Broadway nods conspiratorially when you say you’re “covering” for another actor.
Foreign and Familiar
Even if Canada has a higher volume of contemporary French plays, our reliance on old translations of classic texts is troubling.
The Love Story Behind Come From Away
Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the married couple behind Come From Away, have their own writing style: “I heard someone say that writing is fighting. We like to write in a coffee shop. Because there are witnesses.”
In Case We Disappear in Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the largest arts festival in the world. I went on my own, to survive it.
Eating in LA
Year One: Apple Pan, because it’s literally what the Peach Pit in 90210 is based on, and pie is good when you’re being rejected that much.
Believing in Our Own Work
When my peers and I were asked to pitch three plays, it was a no-brainer that the ones I chose were going to be Canadian.
