History & Archives

Since 2005, the company has produced productions from the classic and contemporary canons to premieres of new Canadian works. With artistic excellence leading our core values, artists associated with Handsome Alice Theatre productions have garnered two Betty Mitchell Awards, eighteen Betty Mitchell Award nominations, five Critics Choice Award nominations, and two FFWD Weekly Readers’ Choice Award nominations.

Past Productions & Events

2018 – 2019

• inVISIBLE (Too) a collective creation with the University of Lethbridge
• Boom Baby A staged reading, by Natalie Meisner, Dramaturge Pamela Halstead
• A Love Letter to Emily C by Sheri-D Wilson, Directed by Trevor Schmidt

2017 – 2018

• inVISIBLE a collective creation
• CERTIFIED by Jan Derbyshire, Directed by Roy Surette
• A Chitenge Story by Makambe K. Simamba, Directed by Kathryn Smith

2016 – 2017

• The Good Bride by Rosemary Rowe, Directed by Trevor Schmidt
• The Tall Building by Jill Connell, Directed by Denise Clarke

2015 – 2016

• Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
  by Ann-Marie MacDonald, directed by Kate Newby, a co-production with The Shakespeare Company and Hit and Myth Productions
• Artist Salons
• The Virago Project

2014 – 2015

• Legoland
  by Jacob Richmond, directed by Jacqueline Russell
• Girls Gone Wilde Festival
• Women in Improv
• Late Night Cabaret
• Panel Discussion – Women in Theatre
• The Clinic
  by Alice Nelson

2013 – 2014

• Monstrosities
  by Amber Borotsik, Jill Connell, Kristi Hansen, and Vanessa Sabourin, co-production with Maggie Tree Ensemble, directed by Sandra Nicholls
• Girls Gone Wilde Cabaret

2012 – 2013

• Girls Gone Wilde Cabaret
• The Carrying
  by Jennifer Roberts
• Stuck on Crowchild
  by Jamie Dunsdon
• Elephant
  by The Janes (Heather Falk, Joleen Ceraldi, and Helen Knight)
• Excerpts from The Trojan Women
  adapted by Michaela Jeffery
• “The Fly” from The Disembodied Lady
  created and Performed by Leda Davies
• Not a Bird
  created and Performed by Oriana Pagnotta
• Exia
  by Meg Braem (A Staged Reading in partnership with APN)
• The List
  by Jennifer Tremblay, translated by Shelley Tepperman, directed by Micheline Chevrier

2011 – 2012

• Hunger Striking
  by Kit Brennan, co-production with Maggie Tree Ensemble, directed by Vanessa Sabourin
• Curvalicious 2012

2010 – 2011

• It is Solved
  by Walking by Catherine Banks, directed by Kathryn Waters
• Curvalicious 2011

Heroines Series

• Love(Her)/Fight(Her)
  by Lana Michelle Hughes
• A Reminder of Darkness
  by AJ Demers
• The Golden Record
  by Michelle Kennedy

2009 – 2010

• Camera, Woman: A play in two parts
  by R.M. Vaugan, directed by Kathryn Waters
• The Vajayjay Monologues
  by Lindsay Burns, directed by Vicki Stroich
• Curvalicious 2010

2008 – 2009

• Essay & The Russian Play
  by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Glenda Sterling
• Queen Lear
  by Eugene Stickland, directed by Vanessa Porteous

Heroines Series

• Amber Lights
  by Simone Saunders
• Tree Hugger
  by Ayla Stephen
• The Venus of Basin Street
  by Melanee Murray

2007 – 2008

• Helen’s Necklace
  by Carole Fréchette, translated by John Murrell, directed by Vanessa Porteous
• The Vajayjay Monologues
  written and performed by Lindsay Burns, directed by Vicki Stroich

2006 – 2007

• Thy Neighbour’s Wife
  by Tara Beagan, directed by Valerie Planche
• Living Shadows – A Story of Mary Pickford
  presented by Urban Curvz Theatre, written and performed by Tracey Power, directed by Brian Dooley

2005 – 2006

• Necessary Targets
  by Eve Ensler, directed by Jane McFarlane

Masterclasses & Workshops

• Masterclass with Peter Balkwill
• Masterclass with Colleen Murphy
• Masterclass with Karen Hines
• Masterclass with Micheline Chevrier