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Meet our Playwrights

Discover the new work by our 3 playwrights below

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Allison Fradkin

Playwright of On-the-Rag Dolls

Scriptly speaking, Allison Fradkin (she/her) delights in creating satirically scintillating stories that (sur)pass the Bechdel Test and enlist their characters in a caricature of the idiocies and intricacies of insidious isms. Fradkin freelances for her hometown, Toronto's sister city of Chicago, as Dramatist for Special Gifts Theatre, adapting scripts that celebrate actors of all abilities.

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About On-The-Rag Dolls

It's Casual Friday, and three friends from church are congregating for their weekly sleepover. But they can't relax. They're too busy minding their P's and ignoring their Q's. Because the answer to everything is purity, piety, progeny. Period. Oh, yeah, that too. When one of the girls starts seeing red, will the onset of menstruation be cause for celebration? Or will the ability for fertility inspire hostility?

Jack Burrill

Playwright of Leave Nothing Unsaid

Jack Burrill is a gay multi-disciplinary artist with a particular love of Shakespeare and excavating his works. He is an actor, a director, a writer, teacher and the proud Artistic Director and co-founder of Unchained Theatre. Jack has taken part in productions that he has both acted in and directed (often at the same time.) Some of Jack’s credits include the Moises Kaufman track (Laramie Project), Wargrave (And Then There Were None), Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night), Colonel Mustard (Clue), Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Falstaff (Henry IV Part 1). Jack won the awards for Best Writer, Director, Supporting Actor at National Theatre School Festival for his play Sun in the West. Jack was trained at Centennial College Theatre Arts and Performance program. As well as being trained in both the Grotowski method by Ara Glenn-Johanson and the Michael Chekhov Technique by Rena Polley and Lionel Walsh, with an aspiration to be trained in more of the legendary practitioner’s methods. He hopes to continue his work and research by producing Shakespeare and learning the different approaches to the craft of acting to pass it on to future generations of actors and artists.

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About Leave Nothing Unsaid

A story about seeking forgiveness. After the passing of her mother Jamie Cadell reaches out to her estranged father to make amends. Her father, Eugene, makes it difficult to mend bridges as he is constantly distracted with writing his novel and his drinking. Jamie has to confront her own pain and find a way to let go in order to try and have a relationship with her eccentric father. But the thought of forgiveness becomes harder and harder for Jamie when the memories of her past revisit her through the present relationship with her father. She is not sure if she will ever be ready to forgive him or if Eugene will ever be ready to apologize.

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Evan Bawtinheimer

Playwright of My Better Half

Evan Bawtinheimer is a Bipolar Playwright from Toronto. He is a graduate of Fanshawe College’s Theatre Arts Program and Brock University’s Dramatic Arts Program. Acting Credits Include: Hamlet, Hamlet (Fanshawe College); Antonio, Twelfth Night (Brock University); Activist with Bag on Head (Law and Order: Toronto) Upcoming: Playwright of “Patty Picker” (Flying Penguin Theatre) at 2024 Toronto Fringe.

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About My Better Half

A high school couple plan their future while dealing with a mental health crisis.

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