Samantha Machado and Arne MacPherson chat writing, directing, and what they love about theatre.

About the Artists:

Samantha Machado is an emerging writer and theatre creator. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she is a graduate of the University of King’s College. Since 2022, she has been a member of the PTE/MAP playwriting unit. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in SNAPline, As Alive Journal, and Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces and her short plays have been performed at the National New Market Ten Minute Play Festival.

Arne MacPherson is a Winnipeg-based theatre maker, theatre educator, on-camera performer, and film-maker. Some of the theatre productions Arne has directed are: How It Ends (Sick + Twisted), The Threepenny Opera (Sick + Twisted/AA Battery), Hamlet (The Bunchback’d Toads), Deserter (Moving Target), Sargent and Victor and Me, Stretching Hide (Theatre Projects Manitoba), Head, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (Shakespeare In the Ruins), Harvest, Magical Mystery Munsch (Prairie Theatre Exchange), The Walworth Farce, Such Creatures (Incompletely Strangled). He directed five disability cabarets for Sick+Twisted.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Thomas Sill Foundation in making this podcast possible.