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At Kelly Gray's Book Launch 
for Instructions for an Animal Body, MoonTide Press, 2021
 

At Three Rooms Press Book Launch for Maintenant 13
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC,
2019


Billfest, 2019
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
Poets House, NYC
Players Club, NYC
NAC, St Catharines

 
VERSEFEST, Ottawa, 2019  

 
At Three Rooms Press Book Launch of Maintenant 12
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC,
2018


At Three Rooms Press Book Launch for Maintenant 11
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC,
2017


Stage -Theatre

FULL LENGTH PLAYS:

Swimming in Roses
A full length drama about the journey of a feminist grunge band. Developed in 2021 with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council Theatre Project Grant for Research and Development.
A staged reading presented on Zoom in 2021.

Her Vincent Sky

A full length drama for three women based on the last two years of Vincent Van Gogh's life. Set in France, during the days at the famous Yellow House with Paul Gauguin and the mysterious death by gunshot while in the company of Dr Gachet. 

Darling, Genius (or How To Write A Novel In Thirty Days)
A mumblecore inspired love story that follows Simone and JP through their thirties and forties as they figure out how to live with each other while living apart.
A staged reading presented by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020


ONE ACT PLAYS:

LAFF in the Dark
An amusement park is the backdrop for all the rides of a relationship, from rollercoasters to love tunnels, and the sometimes scary Laff in the dark.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020

Love Sick Punch

An absurdist two hander examining the obsession of love from the minds and mouths of a doctor and a poet.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020

It Happens In Threes
A lyrical monologue that moves forwards and backwards with intense colour, piecing together the parts of the number three. Existential and absurd.
Presented for a small audience at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio, 2019

Nature Verses The Machine

Two women engage in a poetic arm wrestle over organic and artificial intelligence. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's treatise The Second Sex.  
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2010

Accidental Episode

A post-modern one-act that explores consciousness, choice and political engagement in an absurd and frightening dystopia. On the surface two actors climb ladders in a bleak landscape of tradition. Under the surface the captain and crew keep watch for threats made by an unknown Enemy.
Performed for the public at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto main stage, 2009

Throw Like a Girl

A one woman show exploring DADA, memory and psyche from a feminist perspective.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2008

Who Killed the Curator

In a contemporary art gallery, curators fight for funding, artists bloat for attention and one stray art buyer can't take home a photograph in a space where nothing is for sale.
Winner of the 2008 Evan Hughes Award One Act contest
Performed at the Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2009
Scheduled to be performed at Iowa State University's Theatre Festival in May 2020
Staged reading in Almonte, Ontario March 2024


the argument

An absurd dialogue of four voices in a brain.  Written in 2002 and later recorded as six minute audio play for a performance installation during Doors Open, Toronto.
Installation at Doors Open at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, 2007
Read at Eclipse Cafe, Toronto, 2002

cadenza

A young woman returns to her hometown in search of what it means to be an artist in a time of economic uncertainty.
Performed at Peterborough New Dance Space, 1998




 Shadow Hi-Fi, Art Zoo, Toronto, 2014

 
Climbing The Pink Tree, 253469, Toronto, 2011


253469, Toronto, 2011


DEVISED PERFORMANCE:

Sedan Chair Astronomy

A brief voyage through the mind of Marie Antoinette before her beheading.
Performed at Casa del Popola, Montreal, 2015

Spell of the Hippodrome

A four hour outdoor performance using a boxed rental truck as stage to project shadow work, poetry and audio.
Performed at Trinity Bellwood during Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2013

March To Paris

A poet, a fountain and a paper mask offer a prophecy of repeated revolutions.
Performed at the Louvre Gardens, Paris, 2013

Gesture Hot Cold

Three women leave the island of siren isolation to reinvent the mythical story that decenters the male as protagonist.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2012

Climbing The Pink Tree

Interacting with everyday objects, film projection and concepts of instruction, myth meets commerce on a futon bed.
Performed at Gallery 253469, Toronto, 2011

Kick Exposed Alive

Mechanical monkeys, deserts of plastic plants, poetry clowns and experiments in mise en scรจne creations.
Performed at Gallery 253469, Toronto, 2009

Dreaming The Objective
An art studio is attacked by ladders, raccoons and absurdist directions.
Performed at the Arts & Letters Club studio, Toronto, 2007