Artist — Kingston Theatre Alliance

Nic Lindegger is ready to leave the nest.
After working as Evalyn Parry’s assistant director on two shows in 2024—first Erin Shields’ Paradise Lost for the DAN School Drama Major, then the independent debut of Sophia Fabiilli’s Why It’s imPossible—Lindegger is spreading their wings as a solo director. When we spoke in December, they had just signed on to direct Victoria Marmulak’s new comedy, Robin and Magpie, which plays this weekend at Theological Hall.

How well do you know your loved ones? In Sharing Is Caring, a group of close friends finds themselves opening up in unexpected ways over the course of a night spent in an old, abandoned church. Written and produced by Grace Delamere, Sharing Is Caring is the fourth new work to be presented by Of The Sea Productions, an independent theatre production company founded in 2023.

In the middle of a prolific career as a dancer and Dora-nominated actor, Cassel Miles found himself losing his passion for performance. After a period of depression, which turned into a ten-year hiatus from professional theatre, he moved from Toronto to the Kingston area—where community connections and a long-awaited project rekindled his passion and brought him back to the stage. 

Student-run theatre strikes again! This January, Queen’s Musical Theatre (QMT) is bringing the renowned Sunday in the Park with George—music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine—to Kingston. With over 100 folks involved, the organization has been working for many months on bringing this partially immersive (more on that later) musical to the stage. Director Rachel Rusonik was kind enough to sit down with me during the ever-busy […]

To call Nathan Zhe the co-producer and director of Yu Theatre Society’s Snow in Midsummer: The Silence feels like an oversimplification of his role. After all, he’s also the show’s technical director, sound designer, and live sound programmer, as well as one of two student playwrights who adapted the 12th-century Chinese script to create a non-verbal performance using shadows and movement. 

This December, The Spire is welcoming multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and multi-Joan. Living Edge Collective is bringing to the stage a workshop presentation of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan. The company strives to engage artists in ecological collaboration, bringing beautiful intention into their work.  Living Edge situates Saint Joan “in this sanctuary of echo and sonic revelry, our production explores the idea of seven different Joans meeting to characterize the many architects […]

“Everything is useful. Everything is worth studying.” When I met with Elsa McKnight to discuss EXPERIMENT 1a, I was slightly surprised by her cheerful demeanour. While the show’s marketing has a rather ominous tone—with black-and-red posters that read “Tabula Rasa Laboratory: We Are Always Watching” and Instagram posts with captions like “lean into the uncertainty” and “have you given up on society?”—its creator is warm and chatty, with a distinct […]

Participating and playing in this year’s WritersFest is Jeff McGilton, a multi-faceted artist who Kingston has the pleasure of engaging this week as he and Mariah (Mo) Horner will be facilitating a workshop in the September festival titled Participatory Play. Earlier this year, Horner and Jenn Stephenson published Play: Dramaturgies of Participation and the workshop—a TeensWrite Studio event—will guide teens through concepts in the book, mainly focussing on participatory theatre. […]

Bring a “yes, and…” approach to your writing, with help from Wilding! In their workshop at this year’s Kingston WritersFest, Writing With Wilding – Through an Improv Lens, they offer an improvisational-based approach to energize your writing practice. Originally from Vancouver, Wilding arrived in Kingston six years ago, having spent the last 25 years (at least) working within a variety of improv, performing, and teaching roles, exploring different ways that […]

Jesse Gazic is a Toronto-based game designer, theatre maker, and Queen’s alum—and this summer, he’s been leading a puzzling adventure to catch an elusive butterfly in High Park. When I first arrived at Queen’s in 2014, I thought Gazic was the coolest person in the very grown-up-seeming cohort of third-year drama students. Though our paths have seldom crossed since he graduated—he’s somewhat elusive himself—I recently managed to catch Gazic for […]

It’s the last show of the 2024 Kick & Push Festival—Basement Girl, a play about PhD student Jovana navigating her new life in Canada while dealing with some eerie sounds in her apartment. Director, playwright, and actor behind Jovana, Bojana Babić was kind enough to sit down with me this past week for a Zoom interview about the show.  This interview has been edited for clarity and length.  Could you […]

Artistic work that’s been a part of the Kick & Push Festival for several years now, the Cedar Island Residency returns for 2024 and this year’s creations will be shared today. By collaborating with Parks Canada to make this residency possible, the work on Cedar Island began just under one week ago on August 12th. With a busy past few days of creation, myself and B. Solomon—a creator in the […]