Wreck: A very Anxious Memoir has a cover, and launches this month!!!

This is a soft launch. We haven't finalized the date for the launch of this new book about fear and love and lighthouses and growing up very very anxious...but there's a cover. And goodness, that's a start. 

Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir gets its North American launch this month. Radiant Press will be offering an online interview and reading sort of thing, available anywhere in the world that anyone is interested....which, as I am very very anxious, I imagine will be no one, no where, no how and I'm not even sure I should be writing this....But it's a nice cover! And the audio book version will be available very soon too. 

Not sure who I am? Try the bio!

Not sure if this book is for you? Like comedy, neuroses, true love, whales and lighthouses? Yes--it's for you. 

No? Oh dear. We need to talk. You better read the book too.  

From Library Voices: Re THE CURST (a pop as f**k fantasia) POSTPONED

from Michael Scott Dawson of Library Voices:

"A telltale sign that a band has jumped the shark is when they announce that they're going to make a rock opera...

Things have been relatively quiet around the ol' Library Voices camp for the last few months (years) but I'm happy to share that we have been quietly collaborating with award winning playwright Kelley Jo Burke on a new work titled The Curst. The story centres around the fictitious characters that exist within our lyrics. It also features a bunch of new LV songs that likely won't ever exist elsewhere.

The Curst runs May 1-17 at Dancing Sky Theatre and there are only a limited number of tickets remaining. https://ontheboards.ca/events/the-curst/

Just so it's clear, I also wanted to point out that we are not in the theatre piece. They've cast a wonderful group of immensely talented professionals who portray a far more believable band than Library Voices ever could... We do plan to be around though, sipping wine and eating chicken burgers from the gas station up the street. xo"

Performance of "Leaving America" written and performed by Kelley Jo Burke, excerpt from upcoming memoir "To the Lighthouse (I know I need a better title)."

Thanks to Tic Toc TEN Short Performance Festival and a Thank you to ENC3000 videography.

Online Scriptwriting Course THEA 215 AE open for registration

So pleased to announce this!  My online scriptwriting course, first offered in 2017, Theatre 215AE, will be available again through URegina Media Arts and Performance (MAP)--starting Winter 2019. It combines on-line at-home work with three live-on-video writers' workshops, and individual consultation and dramaturgy with me. It's gonna be fun! 

A Funny Story About Making "Us"

One of Jeffery Straker's wonderful songs that made their way into our new musical "Us," (world premiere, Globe Theatre Feb 28, 2018 – Mar 18, 2018) --funny story about this one. This is the song I chose for the last few moments of my last show as host of CBC's SoundXchange--and you can tell why. Is there a more hopeful and uplifting way to end something? It just kept playing in my mind--so much so that my next call was to Jeffery Straker. I asked him if he wanted to create a musical with me, set at an LGBT2QP+++ youth camp--like the amazing Camp Fyreflysask--where he'd been a resident artist (and I was about to become one). He said yes. The rest is...the hopeful, uplifting made-in-Saskatchewan."Us." http://globetheatrelive.com/plays/1718-mainstage/us