October 11 @ 6:11 pm
The Arts Umbrella Theatre, Music, & Film department presents our annual Winter Shorts Festival from December 3-5 in the Jack and Darlene Poole Theatre located on Granville Island. The festival showcases the talent of the students in our Year Long Theatre Programs and will include both original work created by the students inspired by the Climate Change Theatre Action initiative as well as the following outstanding plays by this years fabulous playwrights:
Nicolas Billon – THE PENGUIN
Wren Brian – WHEN
Heidi Kraay – DREAMSONG
Yvette Nolan – RANGER
Mark Rigney – SAMMIE & GRAN
Georgina Escobar – ALL ITS TAINTED GLORY
Keith Barker – APOLOGY, MY
David Finnigan – ALL OF US WERE BORN IN THE CRISIS
Nicole Pschetz – I SAW YOU WELL
Chris Thorpe – NOT BECAUSE WE’RE GOOD
Haeweon Yi – SO THIS IS THE LAST APPLE PIE
Thomas Peterson – PAYING FOR IT
Zoe Svendsen – LOVE OUT OF THE RUINS
Elena (Eli) Belyea – AFFIRMATIONS
Miranda Rose Hall – THE OYSTERS
Paula Cizmar – THE PAGEANT
Alister Emerson – MOO! BE QUIET! LAMBCHOP’S SECRET MISSION TO STEAL EVERY COW IN THE WORLD
Karen Elias – THE PERSISTENCE OF POSSIBILITY
We have engaged teens in Arts Umbrella’s Arts and Design department to create original artwork inspired by the plays that will have their own gallery showing during the festival as well as be projected as backdrops to our performances. In an effort to go green, all program content will be online and include links with more information about going green.
