STAGED READINGS
Someone Like You by Christine Quintana
Arts Club Theatre Company: The Radar, New Works Series
August 16, 2022 - BMO Theatre Centre
The Story: Isabelle is a life-long romantic—but modern love isn’t like a pop song or an old novel. Her best friend, Kristen, is embarking on a rebound romance, and things get complicated when Isabelle’s wing-man duties cross the line. This new comedy launches Cyrano de Bergerac into the 21st century: mistaken identities, millennial manifestos, and the quest for self-love. What’s your love story?
Performers: Steffanie Davis, Jasmine Chen and Praneet Akilla
Stage Manager: Caryn Fehr
Director: Jamie King
Dramaturg: Stephen Drover
Sunrise Betties by Cheyenne Rouleau
Itsazoo Productions: Workshop Presentation
August 12, 2022 - BMO Theatre Centre
The Story: Set in 1970s East Van, Cheyenne Rouleau‘s The Sunrise Betties is a hilariously subversive crime thriller involving an all-female street gang who inadvertently start a turf war with a prominent gangster and find their loyalty tested with the arrival of a crooked VPD officer promising protection.
Performers: Sebastien Archibald, Kelsey Kanatan Wavey, Grace Le, Chelsea Rose, Laara Sadiq and Shona Struthers
Stage Manager: Yvonne Yip
Director: Jamie King
Producer: Paige Louter
Dramaturg: Sebastien Archibald
Oh Sandra by June Pang
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre: MSG Lab
Jan 16, 2020 - Progress Lab Studio
The Story: Turbulent, imaginative Frankie is irrepressibly drawn to curious but complicated Audrey. Art and politics infuse the language of love and lust in this play about making the best of bad timing, avoiding the obvious, and living life in the warm, comforting glow of cultural heroes.
Performers: Davey Calderon, Melissa Oei, Panta Mosleh and Trisha Trinh
Dramaturg: June Fukumura & Heidi Taylor
Director: Jamie King
Producer: Anjela Magpantay & Donna Yamamoto
MSG Lab 2
June 16, 2020 - via Zoom
Performers: Diana Bang, Adele Noronha, Rae Takei and Melissa Oei.
Dramaturg & Producer: June Fukumura
Director: Jamie King
I Sit Content by Kaitlin Riordan
Arts Club Theatre Company: New Play Festival
Sept 10, 2019 - BMO Goldcorp Theatre
The Story: An exploration of the value of art, this Canadian history play entangles us with two of Canada's most celebrated artists: Emily Carr and Lawren Harris. For almost 15 years, during her middle age, Emily Carr stopped painting. The exhaustion of poverty, the sting of rejection, and the isolation of the artist’s life were too much to contend with. Then, in her late 50’s, after meeting Lawren Harris—defacto leader of The Group of Seven—she began painting again with a vengeance. Their unexpected, volatile relationship, foils to each other’s lives, play out in I Sit Content, asking us all to consider the worth of art.
Performers: Georgia Beaty, Carlen Escarraga, Vincent Gale and Gabrielle Rose
Director: Jamie King
Producer: Stephen Drover
Bad Eggs by Jessica Hood
unladylike company: rEvolver reading series
May 22, 2019 - The Cultch Greenhouse
The Story: In bad eggs, Persephone, Hades, and Eve (as in “Adam and Eve”) are all stuck in the modern world, with no recollection of their legendary origins. Persephone and Hades have eloped and are now trying to have a baby. Growing anxious, Persephone goes to the fertility doctor, Eve, who also happens to be her mother. Her world crumbling around her, Persephone must discover who she really is, aside from being a wife and daughter. Through a feminist and darkly comedic lens, this play explores the parallels between the two myths, a serpent Hades and two women who ate “forbidden” fruit, and unearths the modern and mythic cause for a manipulative marriage and a strained mother-daughter relationship.
Performers: Carlen Escaraga, Jessica Hood and Melissa Oei
Director: Jamie King
Producer: Jessica Hood
i broke the ocean by Gary Mok
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre: MSG Lab
Feb 24, 2018 - Playwrights Theatre Company
The Story: A Chinese man swims the whole Pacific Ocean to immigrate to Canada. Ming can't breathe, Funny can't talk, Pip can't quit, Vicky can't love, and Sim is going to solve slavery. "i broke the ocean" was first developed at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Performers: Diana Bang, Brent Hirose, Howie Lai, BC Lee and Melissa Oei
Dramaturg: Joanna Garfinkel
Director: Jamie King
Producers: Bahareh Shigematsu & Donna Yamamoto
Mrs. Lana Greer by CR Packer
Twenty Something Theatre: Fall Reading Series
Nov 20, 2015 - Havana Theatre
The Story: How much do we learn from what people don't say? Mrs. Lana Greer is a meditation on abuse, culpability, and motherhood in extreme circumstances
Performer: Anthea Morritt
Director: Jamie King
Producers: Brian Cochrane & Sabrina Everett