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One Week to Writing Madness!

Our Write-a-thon will be in exactly two weeks! Here are some ground rules for the event:

-I will write a new, full-length play, in 24 hours. The live stream will begin at 6 pm on Friday, March 24, 2023, and will end at 6 pm on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The live stream will be embedded in takeabite.ca , and donations must come via that website.

-Viewers will see a split-screen: on one side, me getting more tired and frantic: on the other side, the play as it’s being written!

-Here is the play’s basic plot:

“3 very different people meet online at the start of the pandemic. They connect, but as the pandemic wears on, their individual lives change, which alters their relationship.”

-At 6 pm on March 24, YOU will give me names for the 3 characters! The first 3 donors will get to provide one name each. Submissions will be via the website.

-Every 60 minutes, I will check prompts and donor amounts. Whoever has donated the most in that 60-minute period will get their prompt used next! I must use the prompt, and I must make it make sense.

-At the end of the 24 hours, whoever has donated the highest amount will pick the name for the villain of Reasons I Hate Being Single !

I will have until March 31, 2023 to fix typos, and then the resulting play will be entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition.

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Write-a-thon, March 24th!

Click below to see how you can watch what a writer in action, and support Take a Bite’s next film, from anywhere in the world.

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Nowhere Normal in NYC!

Nowhere Normal‘s in-person world premiere will be at the New York City Short Comedy Film Festival !

To be selected by a festival focused on comedy, and in New York, NY, is a huge honour and assures us that, yes, the film is funny!

Should any fans be in New York, here is where to buy tickets. Nowhere Normal will be part of “Comedy Session 4”, starting at 6 pm on November 20, 2022.

This seems appropriate 😁

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It Started with an Allergy on Jan. 15, 2022

My one-woman play It Started with an Allergy will stream in an online, multi-media production, starting on January 15, 2022!

Produced by Spoonie Theatre, starring Annette Devitt, and directed by Anna Ashkenazie Bush, It Started with an Allergy is my painfully funny solo show about the 8+ years it took before I was diagnosed with endometriosis. Tune in to Spoonie Theatre’s YouTube channel to see what they’re all about.

In the meantime, have a look at the promo videos below, and see what the first production looked like under PHOTOS.

It Started with an Allergy and Spoonie Theatre Productions

Annette shares why you should watch It Started with an Allergy

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An online play!

My play It Started With an Allergy will soon have an entirely made-for-online production! Check out Spoonie Theatre on Facebook for details.

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Thank you to the audience!

THANK YOU to everyone who attended the reading of Alex and Michael and Hannah last night. A play isn’t a play without an audience, it’s truly impossible to know if a play works until you can hear the reaction to it, so you will be a huge help in improving the script, and getting it onstage!

Thank you to Script Salon, Holy Trinity, Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Alberta Playwrights Network for putting on the reading.

AND to the amazing director and cast for making the reading happen…ESPECIALLY Jake Tkaczyk for stepping in 30 minutes before rehearsal began yesterday!

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small update to AMH

We had to make a casting change, but the reading is still a go! Our Alex will now be Andres Moreno! See you, in person, or online, on October 17.

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Listen on Facebook Live!

Here’s to confirm that the reading of Alex and Michael and Hannah will be live-streamed, here, at 7:30 pm Mountain Time on October 17, 2021. Tune in and behold!

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Script Salon Cast of Alex and Michael and Hannah

I’m happy to confirm the cast and director of the upcoming public reading of Alex and Michael and Hannah !

  • Hannah, Ellen Chorley
  • Alex, Andres Moreno
  • Michael, Brennan Campbell
  • Kathy, Ellie Heath
  • Director, Janine Waddell

Sunday, October 17 at 7:30 pm Mountain Time, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2G6.

In-person: Wear your mask! The event will also be on Facebook Live the day of!

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A Zoom production!

My play It Started With an Allergy, which I last performed at the Edmonton Fringe in 2015, is getting a production via Zoom! Spoonie Theatre in Ocean, NY, USA, will be doing the show this fall. Stay tuned…