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OF RECENT EVENTS (Updated May 2019)



KITTY DECIDES AND THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
Anne's new paranormal play was read
as part of the Next Stage series
of full-length plays with audience feedback
Alumnae Theatre, Toronto, April 1, 2019

WRITE NOW writers' challenge 2018:
As producer also created the theme
for the 5th year in a row of this annual festival
(part of the New Play Development Group, Alumnae Theatre, Toronto)
      WRITE NOW is an annual challenge to write a play over a weekend. Plays are 10 minutes long, rehearsed and directed, based on a special theme.

      For instance, the 2015 theme was:
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (Hamlet) ( A crossroads: an encounter with an experience beyond the normal. A fraction of a whole story - the fraction being the nucleus - the heart - the very centre of a changing life.)"

      The 2014 theme was "AWAKENING"

THE ADVENTURES OF MONSIEUR MAURICE AND HIS BRIDAL EMPORIUM
Anne's comedy was rehearsed and staged
as a workshop feedback event in
the Next Stage Series at the Alumnae Theatre, Toronto
on June 26, 2018, directed by the author.

I AM AWAKE
Anne's paranormal play "I AM AWAKE" was
performed at the Alumnae Theatre Big Ideas Festival
Directed and staged by Ara Glenn-Johanson
May 17, 2017

"THEY ALL GOT OFF THE BUS ..."
Writing Act 2 of: "THEY ALL GOT OFF THE BUS BEFORE IT WENT DOWN THE HILL" :)
(Act 1 was directed by Lucy Brennan in the Alumnae's Big Ideas Festival in 2016 - great fun)

FIREWORKS
Casting Director for 3 plays in FIREWORKS 2016 (Alumnae Theatre)

"HOUSEKEEPING"
Directed "Housekeeping" (author Jean Koppen),
New Ideas Festival, played March 16 to 20, 2016
( Alumnae Theatre, Toronto )
Three housekeepers, actors Aleksandra Maslennikova, Morna Wales and Behiwot Degefu, each respond differently to an alarming discovery in a wealthy man's house.
An intriguing, well-constructed play...

"ROWING ONWARD" written by Eugenie Carabatsos, directed by Anne:
March 2015, for the New Ideas Festival, Toronto.
An artistic, magical rendition - well received.

"IN A TIME OF WAR - Glasgow 1941" was performed
in Alumnae's New Ideas Festival 2014, March 12 - 16.

"DOCTOR MACPAN AND ALL"
Anne's magical rhyming play for children
was presented by
The Toronto Cold Read Series
April, 2014

"DRAGON MEMORIES" Anne's full-length psycho-drama:
was presented at the
Big Ideas Festival,
Directed by Pamela Redfern, May, 2014.