You have TWO chances to catch our short film Nowhere Normal in the next few weeks!
First will be right here! Watch all of Take a Bite Productions’ short films online, starting at 2 pm on May 28. Zoom link will be available this Friday, May 26.
Second, Nowhere Normal will be part of NextFest 2023 at the Roxy Theatre! Check the film schedule!
First: Nowhere Normal will be screened in Edmonton this June! It will be part of a Local Heroes community screening, put on by the Edmonton Short Film Festival. Stay tuned for details. You can get a preview at the virtual screening in May, details here.
Second: as you can see above, playwright Heather Morrow will herself be reading from her own play Alex and Michael and Hannah, which is a finalist for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s drama award. Come and support all the finalist writers that day.
The long-awaited virtual screening of Nowhere Normal is coming!
Please join us for a virtual screening of Nowhere Normal at 2 pm on May 28, 2023.
The screening will include not only Nowhere Normal, but all the short films of our producer, Heather Morrow.
Janine Waddell, the director of our second short film Reasons I Hate Being Single, and producer screenwriter Heather, will attend!
The screening is free, though we’ll be accepting generous donations towards Reasons.
Mark your calendars now.
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta has named the play Alex and Michael and Hannah, written by screenwriter Heather Morrow, as a finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama!
The winners of all the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards will be announced on June 3rd.
Signed copies of the play are available on our webstore!
Thank you again to everyone who supported our next short film Reasons I Hate Being Single via chocolate!
We’ll make arrangements to deliver to you this coming week.
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.
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.
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.
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
My play It Started With an Allergy will soon have an entirely made-for-online production! Check out Spoonie Theatre on Facebook for details.
