The Theatre Centre is thrilled to announce its first slate of new Residency Artists since 2020. From 150 applications to this competitive program, five projects conceived by seven artists were selected to join Residency: Ann-Marie MacDonald and Alisa Palmer, Brandon Hackett and Jonathan Langdon, Philip Geller, Gregory Prest and Jennifer Goodwin.

Artists were selected by The Theatre Centre’s General & Artistic Director, Aislinn Rose, and Associate Artistic Director, liza paul.

Residency is at the heart of everything we do here at The Theatre Centre. We can't wait to work with these artists over the coming years and see where these ideas will take them. Please join us in congratulating our new Residency Artists!

Ann-Marie MacDonald and Alisa Palmer

Best Soldier

(Main Program)

The project asks big questions digging into the power of memory, the roots of illness, and what it means to heal. It investigates the experience of being trapped in a body that feels invaded by poltergeists and vandals – some of whom bring an urgent message, some of whom are only there to raise hell.

Hackett and Langdon

Untitled Full-length Comedy Show

(Main Program)

What happens when we are freed from our silos? What happens when you are proven wrong about your experience being a solitary one? What happens when you finally see the virtually invisible threads of shared identity and culture through the uniquely bizarre medium of comedy?

Philip Geller

The Trickster Institute

(Explorations)

The Trickster is a deeply personal-archetypal figure and lives in the cracks between the undefinable. Trickster is defined by the undefinable, known as the unknowable. A gender bending, shape shifting, monstrous lover of all things, hungry and powerful, foolish and meek, one of our greatest teachers and un-learners.

Gregory Prest

Quorum

(Explorations, in partnership with Video Cabaret)

Unintentionally hilarious, slow, procedural, sometimes dry, oftentimes passionless, ineptly quaint, deeply inspiring, and filled with jargon and rules that make one howl at the absurdity of it all... This is not a takedown of arts boards. It’s something stranger. More tender. More magical.

Jennifer Goodwin

The Changeover

(Finishing)

An exploration of the changeover between bands at a concert is a potent choreographic and spiritual playground. The Changeover shines a light. Part performance, part band practice, part installation, part sound score, part meditation, The Changeover is an homage to the in-between. A call to pay attention.

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