Nicole is a writer based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan. Her plays include:  Without You, An Almost Perfect Thing, The Mothers, The Preacher, The Princess and a Crow, The Ballad of Peachtree Rose. Nicole is the recipient of the Outstanding New Play Sterling Award, the Gwen Pharis Award for Drama, Germany's New Canadian Play Competition official selection and Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge Established Playwright Award. Her work has also been seen in England, Germany, Czech Republic, Australia and Turkey. Nicole has been playwright-in-residence at Azimuth Theatre and Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre. She’s a Journalism and Theatre Arts graduate and is sloooowly working towards a degree in Human Services. You can find her short fiction on a coffee cup or beer can, near you.

NICOLE MOELLER - THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR

“A new mother is haggard, believing that she sees a woman in the abandoned house next door. Turns out she is witnessing her own reflection…”

“Two peers discuss their bad relationships and concoct a plan for revenge…”

Gavin Bradley - THE VOTE

Gavin Bradley is an Irish writer, musician, and palaeontologist who lives as a permanent resident in Edmonton. His first collection of poetry, Separation Anxiety, was published by the University of Alberta Press, and became the first North American book to win UNESCO's Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award for best debut; he is also the first Irish winner of the award. Some of his individual poems and short stories can be found in The Irish Times, The North, Best New British and Irish Poets, Tesseracts, Funicular, and Glass Buffalo, and his poem, Brine, won the Edmonton Poetry Festival PoFest Prize. As a singer-songwriter, he has played continually in new and historic venues in the city, alongside festivals such as Taste of Edmonton, Heart of the City, and Fringe. He is currently working on his second collection of poetry, and expanding his first play, Seanchaí, (performed at Thousand Faces Festival, 2024) for production at Stagestruck Festival this April. He recently received the Alumni Horizon Award for outstanding early career achievements and contributions to community from the University of Alberta, where he currently teaches palaeontology to lots of wonderful and curious students.

“A couple invites
their friends over to witness their divorce. The guests have to vote on which one they would prefer to keep as a friend. Winner takes all the friends.”

Evelyn Rollans is an Edmonton born and raised director, assistant director, writer, and sound designer for film and theatre. Evelyn is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a BA in Drama, notable writing credits include her play Clean Cut (Next Gen Theatre) which debuted at the Edmonton Fringe in 2018, and most recently she has been working as an assistant director on TV shows in Vancouver like Yellowjackets Season 3 (Showtime) and local Edmonton features like Dark Match (Dept 9 Studios). When not writing or at work, you can find Evelyn going for long meandering walks and googling facts about bees.

“An absurdist play. Two people are rehearsing a break-up, but is it real or is it theatre?”

“An estranged couple meet in the emergency room because they never updated their Emergency Contact information after their breakup.”

AMY DeFELICE - DIRECTOR

Edmonton-based theatre and opera director and stage manager, Amy is Sterling Award winning Artistic Director of Trunk Theatre. She has worked on new and contemporary plays at the Alberta Playwrights’ Network, Black Arts Matter Festival, Citadel Theatre, Opera Nuova, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit in Calgary and Theatre Nakai in Whitehorse. She has also taught at the University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan University and The Kings’ University.  She has an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta.

DANIELLE LaROSE - Performer

Danielle LaRose (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in amiskwâcîwaskahikan (Treaty 6, Métis Region 4) and a proud citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation of Alberta. After graduating from Grant MacEwan University, she went on to obtain her Master’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and work in theatres across the UK for eight years. Upon returning to Turtle Island, she has appeared on stage as a performer, off-stage as a director, has written several plays, and composed original musical scores for the stage.