Access Me
Developed over eight years by the Boys in Chairs Collective, Access Me is a queer disability sex-positive performance built from the lives and experiences of Andrew Gurza, Frank Hull and Ken Harrower.
Explore the projectDirector + Producer
I direct theatre, produce performance, and teach and facilitate creative work.
Based in Toronto. Working across Canada.
Plays, games and encounters.
New Societies
A participatory strategy game that grew from an experimental live performance into a national touring project, an online adaptation and a Mandarin-language iteration in Taipei.
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The Smile Off Your Face
The Canadian premiere of Ontroerend Goed's intimate one-person-at-a-time performance, presented by Re:Current Theatre at SummerWorks and recognized with the festival's Award for Best Production.
Explore the projectProducing, teaching and working together.
Producing
From independent productions to festivals: work with O.Dela Arts, PuSh, SummerWorks and the artists bringing new performances to the stage.
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Teaching & Facilitation
Making performance with students, leading workshops and helping artists give and receive useful feedback.
Teaching, workshops & feedbackI’m interested in what happens when we share a space.
I think about what we ask of an audience: where they go, what they do and how they meet the performers and one another. Those questions start in rehearsal and continue through the planning, funding and partnerships.
For me, directing and producing are connected. An artistic idea needs time, space and people to try it. A budget or schedule matters because it shapes what we can make together.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A ten-actor production of Shakespeare's comedy created for the Theatre & Drama Studies classical project, with a stripped-back visual language and an ensemble-led rehearsal process.
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I work on artistic planning, new work, funding and partnerships for a company making theatre with and for young people.
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I produce a festival of independent theatre, dance, live art and performance.
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Published work and writing about my practice.
PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation
Jenn Stephenson and Mariah Horner discuss New Societies and Access Me, alongside my reflections on making participatory work.
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Interdependent Magic
Access Me, co-created with the Boys in Chairs Collective, is published in this anthology edited by Jessica Watkin.
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Canadian Theatre Review
Derek Manderson discusses New Societies in “Team Dramaturgy: Audiences Playing (and Caring) Together.”
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Tell me what you’re working on.
It might be a production, an unfinished idea or a question about what comes next. I’d like to hear about it.
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