Thanks to everyone who came to see It Started With an Allergy at the 34th Edmonton Fringe Festival!
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New Photos for It Started With an Allergy!
The lovely Nicole Diebert of Nine Doors Design has taken promotional photos for It Started With an Allergy, and DARN if I don’t look gutsy and glamorous. Have a look here.
Programs for the Edmonton Fringe Festival go on sale August 4.
Catch It Started with an Allergy!
Here is our venue, schedule, and tickets prices at the Edmonton Fringe:
Strathcona Edmonton Public Library, 8331 – 104 Avenue
Fri Aug 14 @ 2:15pm
Sat Aug 15 @ 7:00pm
Mon Aug 17 @ 2:15pm
Tue Aug 18 @ 6:45pm
Thu Aug 20 @ 1:00pm
Fri Aug 21 @ 9:15pm
Sat Aug 22 @ 2:45pm
Tickets $12, students and seniors $10.
And there’s still time to help put Allergy on!
I’m one of the Best!
So says the Alberta caucus of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, anyway.
The weekend of May 29 to 31, 2015, the annual PGC Conference will be held here in Edmonton. And on the very first night, ten short plays by Edmonton writers will have public readings at the latest Script Salon. A brand new snippet of mine, My Boyfriend’s Cat, will be one of them.
It’s only occurred to me now that this is a national event, and other theatre folk from all over Canada will be here and may be hearing my work. So. Cool.
Allergy is getting better at 25% !
I can barely believe it, but yes: at week 6, It Started With an Allergy is ONE QUARTER of the way to the fundraising goal we’ve set ourselves.
If YOU would like to reserve your ticket to Opening Night now, click here.
The Great Gown Giveaway (by Donation)
Part spring cleaning, fundraiser for It Started With an Allergy, and showcase of Pretty Stuff!
Have a look HERE.
Busy busy Acting Writing WOW
So. StageStruck, the Edmonton Regional One-Act festival happened this past weekend. I stopped posting a while ago about how The Ugly Princess was going, because things very nearly went…pear-shaped, as they would say in Scotland. (That’s one of my favourite UK expressions, after “mingin’ ” – stinky – and “bollocks” – self-explanatory). BUT, everyone pulled together, I ended up playing the title role in my own play…and I won an award for Outstanding Actor. I’m still gobsmacked. To everyone who donated to the Writeathon to get me writing this play, and to everyone who saw it and wants to see again, THANK YOU. AND. My play Crushed will be getting two performances shortly – one at a high school in Lac La Biche, Alberta, and the other at a university in Kingston-Upon-Thames. And I’m getting paid for them. :O
Buy my plays and I go to FRINGE!
So today I entered my BYOV (Bring Your Own Venue) form, for my solo show It Started with an Allergy, into the Edmonton Fringe.
SO: from here on, all the proceeds from the online sales of my plays will go directly to putting on Allergy.
HERE is Crushed, which has now been produced in Edmonton and Fredericton in Canada, as well as in Florida, and soon Kingston-upon-Thames, UK. It has sold 40 copies to date (I’m told that’s unheard of for a less-known play in the great sea of the internet!) My goal is at least 50. Reviews here.
And HERE is Take a Bite, veteran of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, nominated for Best New Play of 2012 by the Calgary Critics Association. Chew on the reviews here.
I’ve also got a fancy-pants DONATE button on my new FRINGE 2015 page, just because.
Yes, despite the winter, August is COMING…
The Ugly Princess at StageStruck!
The Ugly Princess will open the 2015 StageStruck! one-act festival at:
7 pm
27 February 2015
La Cite Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury Northwest, Edmonton.
Tickets are on sale NOW!
My show about endometriosis WILL be at Edmonton Fringe 2015!
Okay, it’s also about sex and drinking (when I could still do that) in Scotland, and cats, as well as uteruses (uteri…?)
It was confirmed today that my redux of It Started With an Allergy will be on at the Strathcona Edmonton Public Library for Fringe this summer. YAY!
