2012 was truly an epic year in terms of my life in the theatre. 

Starting with The Penelopiad (Dora Award for Outstanding Ensemble) and The Happy Woman (Dora Nomination Outstanding Performance) at Nightwood Theatre, then a thrilling few weeks researching our Toronto City Council and co-creating Civility with Daniel Brooks and Necessary Angel, then several weeks in the Rocky Mountains as an actor-in-residence at the Banff Playwright's Colony, followed by the hugely ambitious and profoundly successful Edward Bond Festival produced by our company Sheep No Wool. Then the SummerWorks Festival production of Terminus which would go on to premiere the Off-Mirvish series at the Royal Alexandria Theatre, followed by the premiere of Michael Healey's political satire Proud, and then Small Wooden Shoe's Antigone Dead People by Evan Webber. 

I am deeply chuffed that some of this work was recognized in the Year End lists for 2012 in various publications. Who knows if that'll ever happen again so darn it, I'm taking pleasure in it now! Here are the links...

Toronto Star Five Faves of 2012

The Grid Toronto Theatre MVPs

The National Post Year's best performances

Jon Kaplan's Top Ten in the NOW Magazine

Praxis Theatre's Top 10 of the Top 10

Theatreomania

I owe deep thanks to all my collaborators for making it essential, delightful, challenging, inspiring and profoundly gratifying to go to work every day.  And I offer my deep thanks to all those who came to see these performances, not only those I know by name, but all the people who keep going to the theatre because they understand that there are few experiences in this life that have such potential for humanity as being together at a live performance. 

Happy New Year, Lucky Number 13!

Terminus has closed and now into rehearsals for The Penelopiad from Nightwood Theatre, remounting at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre from Jan 10- Feb 10. 

In the meantime, I'm quite proud to have been a part of National Post's list of the 2,102 best things of 2012, numbers 150 and 155. In their Top Ten Theatre Productions of the year, they've counted Proud and Terminus. Hourah!

Terminus, part of the Inaugural Off-Mirvish series, is onstage now at the Royal Alex. We are so proud of the show and the response it's receiving. Here's a trailer teaser...

Join Outside the March's web community "Inside the March" for information and discount codes.

Here's the view for the audience from the stage!

Production Design: Nblaisdesign and Photo: Nblais

Production Design: Nblaisdesign Photo Credit: Josie Di Luzio

 

Some pretty great photo journalism of the process of
Antigone Dead People
 to be found 

HERE

Antigone Dead People.
This Thursday and Friday night, and a matinee on Friday afternoon
Tranzac Club

 
Check here for info and tickets
Click here for a video taster...
Questions of justice, impotence, class, warfare, family, presented in a way you've never seen this story, I promise. 

This photo popped up on the TAPA website not long ago, from the Dora Awards night in Toronto earlier in the summer (where I was nominated for performance awards for The Happy Woman and The Penelopiad and Alan's production of Crash was nominated for 6 awards, winning 4!). Recently I had the pleasure of watching Monica Dottor and Ryan Hollyman star in the film The Shape of Rex. They, along with Aviva Armour Ostroff, are simply gorgeous in it.

That was then, this is now, and soon...

Hello world. 

I recently closed a SummerWorks Festival production of Mark O'Rowe's play Terminus with the fabulous company Outside the March

I hope to have news about a remount soon, since we sold out our six performances.  

In the meantime, I am delighted to be in rehearsals for Michael Healey's production of his play PROUD, about which I will post more later....(hmmmm..backwards grammar, that.)

And in the meantime of THAT, I'll be doing a one-night only reading of a wonderful play with wonderful people for a wonderful cause. Cheap, meaningful, awesome art. One night only. Come on down!