Jared has also worked as a popular theatre facilitator and drama instructor with diverse and marginalized populations, especially youth and Aboriginal communities. The Aliens! (co-written with Chris Bullough) (Citadel Theatre, Quest Theatre) Paper Song (Concrete Theatre) and the award-winning Lig & Bittle (co-written with Elyne Quan) which continues to be produced across the country. Jared’s playwriting credits include Near Diamond (Flying Diamonds Co-op), Danny Loves a Girl (co-written with Chris Bullough), and the TYA plays Harusame, the Little Bird (Concrete Theatre) Penelope vs. These plays are the long-running Work Plays by Jane Heather and That’s Danger! by Dave Clarke. Currently, Jared is the Outreach Program Coordinator with the Alberta Workers’ Health Centre, where he develops, produces and directs plays for Junior and Senior High School students across the province, with a focus on empowering young workers in the workplace. He continues to be involved with Concrete’s Sprouts New Play Festival as a festival dramaturg. With Concrete, he has been involved as an actor, director, playwright and dramaturg on various projects, and was heavily involved in Are We There Yet?, Jane Heather’s participatory play for 14-year-olds on healthy sexuality and relationships. From 1994 to 2007, he was an Artistic Co-Director of Edmonton’s Concrete Theatre where he helped to create, develop and produce award-winning issue-based, culturally diverse Theatre for Young Audiences. Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull is an actor, writer, director and dramaturg based in Edmonton. Chris has also worked as an Artistic Director, first of Azimuth Theatre 2001-2005 and then of Rapid Fire Theatre from 2005-2009. Chris’s solo show Moving Along has toured across Canada, including appearances in the 2005-2006 seasons of One Yellow Rabbit and Theatre Network. Summer of My Amazing Luck was adapted from the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. A bilingual feature film, The Pharmacist/La Pharmacien, written by and co-starring Craddock, is currently in audio post-production. ![]() Some highlights include BASH’d: A Gay Rap Opera, which played three months off-Broadway and is the recipient of a GLAAD award BoyGroove, which received a six-week commercial run in Toronto and a Dora Award and 3…2…1, which toured to the Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa 2006. Since then, he has written or co-written over twenty plays for Fringe, Mainstage and TYA audiences, as well as two feature films, and three musicals, two of which received commercial productions in major cities. Under the Big Top by Jan Derbyshire: About to be heads over heels in love, ZooZoo hesitates why did her happy-go-lucky clown parents divorce, when they were all under the big top and living the happy dream? About the authorsĬhris Craddock graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program in the spring of 1996. The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh by Chris Craddock:Īll her life, people have told Jamie Cavanaugh to “Slow down!” Jamie knows she is developing Super Speed, but her parents suggest the culprit might actually be ADHD. Three bumbling, colonizing, red-nosed pirates get more than they bargained for when a blue-nosed captive punctures their assumptions and beliefs. When Leah and Willis are forced to serve their detentions in their school’s gloomy science room they reluctantly meet and then become attached to the mysterious eight-legged occupant of the corner aquarium. The Secret Life of the Octopus by Clem Martini: ![]() When the young Prince of Egypt sets out to bring a giraffe to the King of France in Paris, blistering heat, crocodiles, a scheming circus ringleader and growling wolves are just some of the adventures that mark their cross-continental journey. The story of Lig, who is big, and Bittle, who is little, as they embark on a funny, wild and adventure-filled journey to a place called Perfeckt Phitt, in hopes that they’ll find somewhere to belong. ![]() Lig & Bittle by Elyne Quan and Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull: The hero of this remarkable play is a positive role model for young people with ADHD or other learning challenges.These six recent Canadian plays for elementary school age audiences is a companion volume to 2009’s Things That Go Bump, Volume 1. ![]() The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh explores, with humour, insight and compassion, the hurt and confusion of being different when you can’t help it, and the challenges of being the target of school yard bullying. “Pay attention!” says the teacher but Jamie just can’t calm down or stay focused. The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh ( 2016) Produced byĪpril 2nd, 2016 – May 22nd, 2016 Synopsis
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