Directing Experience

Full List of Directing Credits:

Upcoming

DIRECTOR 3 newly commissioned plays, Silver Skate Festival, Edmonton

2023

DIRECTOR Homebuddies by the ensemble, Scantily Glad Theatre/It’s Not A Box, Prague Quadrenial

REMOUNT DIRECTOR The Tree That Wanted to Dance by Charlie Peters and Elizabeth Hobbs, Silver Skate Festival

2022

REMOUNT DIRECTOR The Land of Shadows and the Land of Lights by Charlie Peters and Elizabeth Hobbs, Silver Skate Festival

2020

DIRECTOR No. 7 by Jalisa Gonie, Shortcuts Festival, Online and Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Online

2019

DIRECTOR Minor Pains: Prenatal Piercing and Other Pregnancy Prep by Erin Pettifor and Ashleigh Hicks, Play The Fool Festival, Edmonton, AB

STAGE DIRECTOR* Die Fledermaus, Saskatoon Opera, Saskatoon (video links here and here)

2018

STAGE DIRECTOR Merry Christmas Stephen Leacock by Neil Weisensel, Saskatoon Symphony/Saskatoon Opera, Saskatoon

STAGE DIRECTOR* La Boheme, Saskatoon Opera, Saskatoon (video links here and here)

DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE The Wild Dog Waits on the Concrete Path (remount) by Nathan Howe, Theatre Howl/Embrace Theatre, Western Canadian Tour

DIRECTOR* Theatre on the Trail, Collective Creation, Winterruption Festival/Sum Theatre, Saskatoon

2017

DIRECTOR* Street Corner Playwright by Kenneth T. Williams, Short Cuts New Play Festival, Saskatoon

CO-DIRECTOR* Earth Diver: Theatre in the Pool, Collective Creation, Sum Theatre, Saskatoon

STAGE DIRECTOR The Bremen Town Musicians by Dean Burry, Saskatoon Opera in Schools, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR Nutana Talked (Staged Readings and Songs), Sum Theatre, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR Saskatoon is Still in Bloom, Sum Theatre/SREDA, Saskatoon

2016

CO-DIRECTOR* The Hockey Sweater (remount), Sum Theatre, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR* Wolves by Jennifer Bishop, Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR* The Toe Tag Crew by Dawn Dumont, Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre, Saskatoon

2015

DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE The Wild Dog Waits on the Concrete Path by Nathan Howe, Theatre Howl/Embrace Theatre, Vancouver (World Premiere)

DIRECTOR* Saskatchewan Outdoors: A Touring Play For Families, Embrace Theatre (remount of production I created/directed/dramaturged)

STAGE DIRECTOR Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, Saskatoon Opera in Schools, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR The House You Build by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, Saskatoon (World Premiere)

2014

CREATOR/DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE Saskatchewan Outdoors: A Touring Play For Families, Embrace Theatre (World Premiere)

STAGE DIRECTOR The Brothers Grimm by Dean Burry, Saskatoon Opera’s Opera in Schools Tour, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR* Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Embrace Theatre/Live Five, Saskatoon Winner of Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Outstanding Female Performance (Jenna-Lee Hyde) and nominated for 3 others (Direction, Sound Design, and Set Design)

2013

DIRECTOR* Bottome’s Dreame, adapted from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Embrace Theatre, Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert Nominated for a Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Sound Design

ASSISTANT STAGE DIRECTOR* Carmen by George Bizet, Saskatoon Opera Mainstage, Saskatoon

STAGE DIRECTOR The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Saskatoon Opera, School Tour, Saskatoon and North Battleford

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR* The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon Winner, Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Set Design, Nominated for 6 other awards (including achievement in directing)

2012

DIRECTOR* Farragut North by Beau Willimon, Broadway Mime/Live Five, Saskatoon

DIRECTOR* Angel in the House by Eureka, Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf Conference, Saskatoon (Canadian Premiere)

STAGE DIRECTOR The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Saskatoon Opera, SchoolTour, Saskatoon and North Battleford

DIRECTOR A Play About Death, Adapted by Charlie Peters from poems by John Donne, Dylan Tomas, Rumi, and Kahil Gibran, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

2011

DIRECTOR It’s Been Taken by Nathan Howe and Morgan Murray, Bzzt! Trap Door Theatre/Fringe Festival Tour, Saskatoon, SK, Young, SK and Victoria, BC (World Premiere)

ASSISTANT STAGE DIRECTOR* Mozart’s Odyssey by Ann Hodges (with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), dir. Barbara Montalbetti, Saskatoon Opera, School Tour, Saskatoon, SK and North Battleford,

SK ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Woyzeck by Georg Buchner, dir. Dwayne Brenna, Greystone Theatre, Saskatoon