This is a pciture of Gabe on stage in a red dress. They are looking down at a cellphone and the light washes over them.
Picture of Chelsea in a VR headset in a theatre space with black walls. There is a projectors and a screen. The screen has blotches of colours on it. The screen is what Chelsea sees in the headset.
This is a picture of a studio with light hardwood floor and black walls. Chadia and Xavier read a scene while gabe looks at them.

  • True to its namesake, this pilot VR experience imparts gender euphoria to an audience of one. Working with our wonderful participant,

    we have been exploring video games and digital platforms as a means to carve out space for trans folks to feel good in. Our hope with this project is to build a formula that we can reuse and create similar experiences for our community!

    This project is part of the Buzz Development Program at Theatre Passe Muraille and is funded by the Canada Council For The Arts Digital Fund.

  • For two months in 2021, we conducted interviews with 28 Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming around their experience of gender in relation to class. The sessions took place over Zoom and were facilities in English, French, and ASL with folks across Turtle Island and beyond.

    These interviews are informing the development of a new performance text that explores tensions at the intersection of class and gender identity.

    This project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Live TO, Canadian Stage, and Why Not Theatre.

  • Presented with Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, bcurrent performing arts, and the National Theatre School of Canada.

    What do love and money have in common? They’re sometimes used recklessly, often desired, and whether we like it or not, they are vital to our survival. Wyn (they/he), Emma (they/she), and Zein (they) are hustling within their digital trans community as they make, save, and spend these currencies.

    Presented online on June 30th, 2020. You can still watch the performance on YouTube here.

    Written and performed by Gabe & Merlin, the project was developed with support from the Buddies in Bad Times Emerging Creators Unit in partnership with b current theatre, with funding from the National Theatre School’s Art Apart program. Catherine Hernandez helmed the program with additional assistance from daniel jelani ellis, Rochelle Richardson, and Steph Raposo.

  • Eva, a 20 year old trans girl, wakes up in Rio de Janeiro—her own wonderland. In pursuit of her tinder boi and her perfect body, her surreal ambitions come up against her inevitable return to reality. How can Eva reconcile the difference between the life she dreams of and the life she is living?

    This script by Gabe was initially developed at PWM’s (Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal) Young Creators Unit with the dramaturgy of Jesse Stong and Letícia Tórgo. The script was read for the public at Centaur Theatre in collaboration with PWM for the inaugural Queer Reading Series in 2019. Additional support has been provided by Black Theatre Workshop, Teesri Duniya’s Fireworks Program with Deborah Ford in 2018, Emploi Québec, and Montréal, arts interculturels’ Alliances Program 2018-2019. The play was shortlisted for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s 2020 RBC Emerging Playwright Award.

    Most recently, the piece was directed by Cole Alvis in a virtual presentation hosted by Buddies in Bad Times and lemontree creations during Toronto Pride 2021. This rendition was performed by Dakota Jamal Wellman, DM St. Bernard, Kern Albert, Michelle Tiwo, Ryan G. Hinds, and Yago Mesquita.

  • It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies

    This production of Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph was presented in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) in 2017 and produced by this collective upon graduating from the Dome Theatre School.

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