SELECTED PLAYS

The Drowned
Runner-up in the 2022 Write-on-Q Competition: workshop and public reading with Infinitheatre (2022); developed with support from Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre (2019) and the Peep Show! Play Reading series (2018); presented as a public reading as part of the SkirtsAfire Arts Festival (2018)

Nyctophobia (part of Here There Be Night)
Produced and developed by Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre in partnership with Theatre Yes, Catalyst Theatre, Theatre Network, and Northern Light Theatre (October 2020)

IN CAMERA
Produced by parts&labour and presented at the Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Festival (2019); development supported by Theatre Yes and Alberta Playwrights’ Network’s RBC Emerging Artist Mentorship Program (2017); public reading at Script Salon (2019); optioned for future production by Theatre Yes 

Slack Tide
Nominee: Outstanding Fringe New Work (Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2018); produced and developed by parts&labour and Blarney Productions (2017); presented at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (2017); a public reading at the Serca Festival of Irish Theatre (2017)

Deadstock
Winner of the 2016 Alberta Playwriting Competition Novitiate Prize; developed with support from The Lir National Academy for Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin (2015) and Alberta Playwrights’ Network (2017); public readings at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival (2015) and Script Salon (2017)

SELECTED DRAMATURGY 

Shoe Peak ‘96
Written by Michelle Robb; developed with support from Alberta Playwrights’ Network (2021)

In The Middle of the Day
Written by Katy Decoste; public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2020)

Costumes in Paradise
Written by Jonah Dunch; public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2020)

Rien A Faire
Written by Jordy Weins; developed through the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2019)

FUMBO
Written by Mukonzi Musyoki; presented as a public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2018)

Headhole
Written by Claudia Kulay; presented as a public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2018)

Fossegrim & Nøkk
Book by Megan Dart, music and lyrics by Leif Ingebrigsten; presented by Alberta Musical Theatre Projects at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (2018)

Dark Am I, Yet Lovely
Written by Becky MacDormand (winner of the 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition Novitiate Prize); presented as a public reading at Script Salon (2018)

EDUCATION

The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin
Master in Fine Art: Playwriting, Dublin, Ireland, September 2014 to August 2015

University of Alberta
Bachelor of Arts: Major in Drama, Minor in English, Edmonton, AB, 2009 - 2013

ACCOLADES, AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award
Award recipient (2019)

Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award
Nomination for Outstanding Fringe New Work for Slack Tide (2018)

Alberta Playwriting Competition
Novitiate Prize Winner for Deadstock (2016)

TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE

Nextnextfest High School Mentorship Program
NextFest Emerging Arts Festival, Edmonton, AB (2019, 2020 festivals)

#writesofpassage
Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, Edmonton, AB (2019/2020 school year)

La Création des Personnages/Character Creation
La Plume Parlante/ L’Unithéâtre, Edmonton, AB ( Fall 2019/ Winter 2020)

From the Page Up: Building a Play
Wordsworth/Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Bragg Creek, AB (2018)

RESIDENCIES & WRITERS’ CIRCLES

Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Festival
Fresh AiR Artist-in-Residence, Edmonton, AB, 2019

Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre
Playwright-in-Development, 2018/2019

Alberta Playwrights’ Network’s RBC Emerging Artists Mentorship Program
Participant, Edmonton, AB, 2017

The Citadel Theatre Playwrights’ Forum
Participant, Edmonton, AB, 2016