Speak Up!
March 8, 2020
Speak Up! Ruby Slippers Theatre announces theSpeak Up! SeriesIf you have a story of misconduct in the rehearsal hall to tell, but are afraid to tell
The Flying Monkey
Dear Theatre Student
February 26, 2020
So you’ve decided you want to be an actor. Don’t do it.
JK. Ok, maybe half JK.
Perhaps, like me, you’ve known since you were six years old that you wanted to be an actor, or maybe you didn’t know until you took a high school drama class and something inside of you cracked open. “Ooh. What is this sensation? This cocktail of adrenaline, catharsis and praise?”
Managing Trauma on Stage and Off
July 17, 2019
Can we share difficult truths in safer ways? TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to rape. Written by Marisa Emma SmithArtistic Producer, Alley Theatre I was
Our Acknowledgement Work
March 14, 2019
As a Syilx, Tsilhqot’in, Ktunaxa and Dakelh woman, I am a guest on the territories of the Xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and Stó:lō
I Feel Hope, Not Despair
January 14, 2018
(*This editorial was published in the Globe & Mail, January 30, 2018.) As a seasoned actor, director, and producer of many professional years, and
Stumbling Towards Inclusion
April 14, 2017
Sitting in a Chinatown café, I’m sharing coffee with a young theatre maker. We talk a bit about our projects, but mostly we’re here to