THIS IS AN ARCHIVE OF AN EVENT THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
EVERYONE IS DOING FINE
By James Odin Wade
Thursday, March 23, 7:30 PM
About Everyone Is Doing Fine:
Art, sex, and capitalism collide in this fast-paced comedy-drama. When two listless art school friends are brought into the employ of a hedge-fund manager, liaisons are dangerous, the figures are high, and futures are bought and sold.
The Playwright
James Odin Wade is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter based in Calgary, Alberta. His work for the stage has been produced, developed, or presented with theatre organizations across North America, including Lunchbox Theatre, Theatre Calgary, multiple Canadian Fringe Festivals, The University of Lethbridge, The University of Calgary, Sage Theatre's Ignite! Festival, Death & Pretzels, and Theatre Genesis. He has garnered awards from across Canada and the United States including The Alberta Playwriting Competition Grand Prize (Helmut’s Big Day), The National One-Act Playwriting Competition (In Case of Fire), the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival’s One-Act Play Contest (By the Book) and has been a semi-finalist for many more, recently including New Dramatists’ Princess Grace Award (In Tongues). James is the co-founder of the Calgary indie company Red Phone Theatre and is a member of the 52nd Street Project in New York City. He holds a BFA from the University of Lethbridge and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Calgary. His work explores the role and power of narrative in people’s lives. This often results in comedies that don’t end happily. He is excited to be back in Edmonton and to be working with Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre.
James Odin Wade
The Creative Team
Margaret Muriel (she/her) is an artist & arts educator originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia/ Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma'ki. She has a BA in Acting from Dalhousie University and an MFA in Directing from York University. Margaret trained extensively in Physical & Forum Theatre with The Irondale Ensemble Project, and in voice/acting with Peggy Redmond. Since 2008, Margaret has been working as a multidisciplinary artist in theatre, television, film and radio. She has a special interest in serving as dramaturge and director on new plays, working with playwrights to bring their work from conception to production. Her personal work includes the physical theatre and coming of age piece, Leaves of The Virgin Mary, Quietly—a theatrical digital piece about misogyny, and her current project, Here Comes Betty Grable or Fawn, which explores whisper culture, mentorship, and grief. Margaret is currently editing her second short film High Level, about vertigo, depression, and change.
Margaret muriel
Director
darrin hagen
dramaturgical consultant
Shingai David Madawo is an Edmonton based film and theatre actor as well as an artist manager and show curator. Film Credits include: Smile: It’s Only the End of the World, Fugacis, Black and Blue, Hot Box, Equilibria, Awake, Spin The Wheel, and On Black Horses. Theatre credits include: Here There Be Night, Until The Next Breath, E-Day, Balance Board, Shoreline, A Christmas Carol, and Chanzo. Madawo is the creator of former local hip hop podcast turned artist management label, Urban Zuu and is the co-creator and host of EGO Magazine: Volume 1 and Co-Creator and producer of EGO Magazine: Volume 2.
SHINGAI David Madawo
Actor
Christina Nguyen is a mixed race actor, singer and dancer hailing from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). She is so excited to get to return to Workshop West to read an exciting new play! Selected credits include: Jersey Boys, Christmas Carol, Clue (Citadel Theatre); Alina, Michael Mysterious (Pyretic Productions); Much Ado About Nothing, Winter’s Tale (Freewill Players); Sprouts! (Concrete Theatre); Here There Be Night (Workshop West Theatre); and Chrysothemis, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Studio Theatre). Christina is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program.
Christina Nguyen
Actor
Jake Tkaczyk is an Alberta-based theatre artist with a passion for creating new and engaging work collaboratively. He graduated from the BFA Acting at the University of Alberta and is currently in the midst of his PhD in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute. Recent credits include: Crack in the Mirror (Guys in Disguise), White Guy on Stage Talking (self-produced), Flora & Fawna Have Beaver Fever (and so does Fleurette!) (Lunchbox Theatre), Lungs (Shadow Theatre), With Bells On and Don’t Frown at the Gown (Guys in Disguise), Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Blarney Productions/You are Here), Urinetown (Grindstone Theatre), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown! (Opera Nuova). Jake had the extreme pleasure of working as an Artist Intern at Northern Light Theatre for a few years and is currently the Program Manager of Performing Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Jake will be in Shadow Theatre’s production of 10 Funerals this April and May!