Postmarginal Edmonton 2.0: Imagining Inclusive Performing Arts Edmonton, Alberta, Canada May 21-24, 2024 In this post you’ll discover: What Postmarginal Edmonton 2.0 (PME 2.0) was and where it came from A variety of my perspectives on relationality, working styles, and self-awareness DISCLAIMER This text is from my perspective, about me. I understand the limited value…
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This Is Where We Live is a video project that aired at the Garneau Theatre on Nov. 22, 2022 and is available for viewing at the link below This Is Where We Live began as a theatre pilot project, with the intent of piloting a process for interviewing people experiencing homelessness, creating monologues from those…
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This post relates to a number of projects – specifically a video project called This Is Where We Live that aired at the Garneau Theatre on Nov. 22, 2022 and is available for viewing at the link below, and a playscript also called This Is Where We Live (just to confuse people) that is in…
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In September of 2021 40-50 theatre artists and culture workers gathered to investigate what it takes to honour difference in the creation process. This was part of a process begun with Walterdale Theatre in Edmonton, at the initiative of my wife and myself. However, it branched out much further than Walterdale, created relationships that span…
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After Ralph’s World I was chided by a former artistic director about the character of Ralph, and questioned about my knowledge of homelessness and homeless people. So I volunteered for three years with a street newspaper, Alberta Street News, interviewing and writing profiles on the vendors, who were marginalized and sometimes homeless. Starless was the…
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Photo credit: C.W. Hill Photography Ltd. and Walterdale Theatre After Thicker Than Blood life got busy. School, kid, work, more school, another kid, more school, always writing in my spare time about the freeing quality of art. Go figure. It took a long time, but it finally came together with Premier Ralph Klein’s drunken night…
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The Poet’s Pig was co-winner of the one-act comedy category of the 1988 Alberta Playwriting Competition. It was first produced at Walterdale Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, in May of 1988, as part of the one-act festival, with a second production in the 1988 Edmonton Fringe Festival, and a third production in the 1989 Vancouver Fringe…
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