Stage Write

Jennifer a Metis artist of the Treaty Six Territory is an actor, playwright, director and Artistic Director of the Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre. Starting with the company when it first opened its doors in 1999 with the Circle of Voices Program. Continuing her passion in the arts, Jennifer’s most recent work includes directing 3 audiobook projects with Penguin Random House Canada, her play Shadows among the Prairies had its world premier presented at the new SOTS site and shortly after debut directed at Persephone Theatres production Cottagers & Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor. Jennifer looks forward to what comes next!

Beth Graham is a playwright and an actor. Her play The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble was shortlisted for the Governor Generals’ Award, received the Gwen Pharis Literary Award and was published by Playwrights Canada Press. She has also co-written plays which include: The Drowning Girls, Comrades, Mules, Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things and Fortune Falls. Beth is currently the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta and the resident dramaturg at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre. Her latest co-creation with Daniela Vlaskalic is Dora Maar: the wicked one. Beth lives in Edmonton, with her partner Patrick, and two wee dogs, Oscar and Lily.

GAL Productions is a newly founded company by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic, who are both actors and playwrights. They met as students at the University of Alberta, while taking their BFAs in acting. After graduating, they teamed up with Charlie Tomlinson and created The Drowning Girls. They’ve been writing together since 1999 and their other collaborations include: Comrades, The Last Train, A Foolish Boy and, most recently, Mules, which received its world premiere at Theatrefront in Toronto in 2019.

DANIELA VLASKALIC Daniela is an award-winning Canadian actor and playwright. As an actor she has appeared across the county with most of Canada’s major theatres including; The Stratford Festival, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, The Citadel Theatre, The Globe Theatre, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Canadian Stage Company, The Tarragon Theatre, The Belfry Theatre, and many more. Recent Film & Television credits included: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Private Eyes (Global) and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Muse Productions). As a playwright Daniela’s plays include, The Castaways and Sleight of Mind (world premiere in 2022). She has also co-written several plays including: The Last Train, Comrades, Mules, and the multiple award-winning play; The Drowning Girls (Dora nomination, Elizabeth Sterling Award, Betty Mitchell Award, SATA Award). The Drowning Girls has received multiple productions nationally and internationally, is published by Canada Playwrights Press and received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood literary award for Drama. Her latest collaboration, Dora Maar: the wicked one (with co-writer Beth Graham), is slated for its world premiere in Calgary, spring of 2022. Daniela lives in Toronto.

GAL Productions is a newly founded company by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic, who are both actors and playwrights. They met as students at the University of Alberta, while taking their BFAs in acting. After graduating, they teamed up with Charlie Tomlinson and created The Drowning Girls. They’ve been writing together since 1999 and their other collaborations include: Comrades, The Last Train, A Foolish Boy and, most recently, Mules, which received its world premiere at Theatrefront in Toronto in 2019.

Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. In these various capacities, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre, the Arts Club Theatre Company, Bard on the Beach, The Cultch, Neworld Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Boca Del Lupo, Zee Zee Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Pi Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Nightswimming Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Stratford Festival, and Young People’s Theatre. Her writing has been translated and performed in Spanish, French, ASL, and German.

Creation/performing highlights include Clean (translated and adapted by Paula Zelaya Cervantes), premiering with Neworld Theatre and South Coast Repertory; Never The Last (co-created with Molly MacKinnon), produced by Delinquent Theatre, recipient of 5 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations including Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Script and winner of Significant Artistic Achievement; Selfie (commissioned by Théâtre la Seizième in French, and Young People’s Theatre in English, Governor General’s Award nominee, winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Play, the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Script by an Emerging Playwright, and the Tom Hendry award for TYA); Good Things To Do (rEvolver Festival and FoldA). As an actor, Christine has recently played in Made In Canada (rice & beans theatre), Anywhere But Here (Electric Company Theatre), The Coyotes (Caravan Farm Theatre), Marine Life (Ruby Slippers Theatre), Yoga Play (Gateway Theatre), East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Replacement and The Cultch). ed the 2017 Siminovitch Protege Prize for Playwriting from Marcus Youssef, and is a proud co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition.  She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia.