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
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 SabourinCurvalicious 2012
2010 – 2011
It is Solvedby 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