The Flying Monkey

Silence Is Not An Option

The staff and Board of Directors of Ruby Slippers Theatre condemns the mass murder in Atlanta and all anti-Asian racism and misogyny in the US and

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Dear Theatre Student

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?” 

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Our Acknowledgement Work

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

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I Feel Hope, Not Despair

(*This editorial was published in the Globe & Mail, January 30, 2018.)   As a seasoned actor, director, and producer of many professional years, and

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