2023 is going to be a very good year!
2022 turned out to be a very busy and satisfying year. I had the privilege of working with so many very fine Artists. This past fall I directed a wonderful HERstorical drama about Emily Murphy written by Caroline Russell-King, as well as a delightful Children’s Opera Stone Soup which was Calgary Opera’s seasonal offering. I participated in a workshop of a new musical by Joe Slabe with Forte Musical Theatre guild, and performed as The Princess Dragomiroff in Murder on the Orient Express at Vertigo theatre. Somehow I did manage to decorate the house just in time for winter celebrations.
These first two months of 2023 are a time for me to catch up on a few things as well as begin creation on a new project. The materials and insight generated by the amazing workshop of John Murrell’s beautiful translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, with impeccable artists Oscar Nieto, Valerie Ann Pearson, Natascha Girgis, Allsion Lynch, Tosh Hayashi and others, needs to be edited and marketed, and I am looking forward to spending some time with Ilkim Tongur to hear what beautiful music she is composing for Silenced; Camille Claudel. I am back at Rosebud School of the Arts teaching Music 240 and 340 with budding young artist and I have time to attend theatre, opera and music and engage with the creativity going on in YYC.
Spring equinox will be celebrated in Yukon this year! I am very excited about joining the wonderful theatre community of Whitehorse. I will be directing Ripcord by David Lindsay-Abaire at the Guild Hall. A fabulous romp through a care home to celebrate life, love, friendship, as well as seasoned and experienced actors. Then home again to continue writing and to spend a lot of time singing to prepare for a studio concert, as well as my return to Romania for the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.
I look forward to the warmer months when I will be able to spend time with my family discovering the beauty of Treaty 7 territory. The ancestral and traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani and Kainai Nations; the Stoney-Nakoda, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley Nations; and the Tsuut’ina Nation, as well as the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. I acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples whose footsteps have marked these lands for generations, including the many places that I am able to experience and create in. I recognize the land as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory I reside on.
Have a very fulfilling day.