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The second Halifax Fringe Roundup! In this episode we check in with Andrew Gaunce, Laura Thornton, and Mariel Kathryn Hunter to see how their Fringes have been going, talk about shows they have loved, and about surviving Fringe exhaustion!

Andrew Gaunce
Instagram: @TempleGaunce
Aberrant Theatre
Instagram: @aberranttheatre
Something Wrong

Laura Thornton
Walesong Theatre
Twitter: @whalesongprod
Instagram: @whalesongtheatre
The Birthday

Mariel Kathryn Hunter
Instagram: @comehomeplay
I Want to Come Home

Mariel Kathryn Hunter hails from Saint John, New Brunswick and moved across the country to pursue her acting career in 2012. She has since appeared in a number of independent films and web series, as well as on stage. Most recently she has performed her one woman show on both coasts to tremendous reviews and oversold houses.

Recent credits include Sarah in Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still. She has also founded Fort Heart Productions and directed under their banner a number of shows including Two Rooms by Lee Blessing and Lepers by Robert G Barone. In the weeks prior to flying East for the Halifax Fringe Festival Hunter produced a sold out run of Welcome to the Moon & Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley.

Mariel's solo play, I Want to Come Home is currently playing at the 2018 edition of the Halifax Fringe Festival.

Twitter: @marielkhunter
Instagram:@unknownmariel

I Want to Come Home

The Old Pool Hall Theatre, 6050-6070 Almon Street
Thursday August 30th 6pm
Friday August 31st 9pm
Saturday September 1st 3:30pm
Sunday September 2nd 8pm
Tuesday September 4th 7:30pm
Thursday September 6th 8:30pm
Saturday September 8th 1:30pm
Sunday September 9th 3:30pm

Instagram:@comehomeplay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/comehomeplay
Tickets:https://halifaxfringe.ca/2018/07/26/i-want-to-come-home/

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The first of two Fringe Roundups for Halifax Fringe, with Andrew Gaunce, Laura Thornton, Emilie Alexandre, and Mariel Kathryn Hunter!

Andrew Gaunce
Instagram: @TempleGaunce
Aberrant Theatre
Instagram: @aberranttheatre
Something Wrong

Laura Thornton
Walesong Theatre
Twitter: @whalesongprod
Instagram: @whalesongtheatre
The Birthday

Emilie Alexandre
House XII Theatre
Instagram: @housetwelvetheatre
The Easy Lovin’ Blues

Mariel Kathryn Hunter
Instagram: @comehomeplay
I Want to Come Home

A roundtable discussion featuring Fundy Fringe artists Franny McCabe-Bennett (actor/playwright of Bar Star), Elliot Delage (actor/playwright of 25), and Mark Foster (playwright of The Waiting Gentlewoman).

Franny McCabe-Bennett
www.frannymcb.com
Twitter: @Franny_McB

Elliot Delage
elliotdelage.artfolio.com
Twitter: @elliotdelage

Mark Foster
tabootheatre.wordpress.com
Twitter: @tabootheatre

James McClure is an award-winning writer, journalist, scholar and undergraduate instructor. In 2018, James’ newest play, Glass Closets, was chosen to be workshopped at Mount Allison University as part of the 2018 Playwrights’ Colony hosted by the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. 'Glass Closets' is his second Fundy Fringe Festival production. In 2017, he wrote and directed ‘Faking It,’ a coming-of-age comedy that was also one of three winners in the Saint John Theatre Company’s playwrighting competition ‘Script Happens.’

James also writes poems, short stories and novels. In 2018, his unpublished YA novel Playing like a Girl was the first runner-up for the David Adams Richards Prize awarded by the Writers Federation of New Brunswick. Judge Michelle Butler Hallett praised the manuscript as “polished YA fiction” and noted that “the first-person narration is especially skillful.”

James currently works as the editor of Civilized.life - a cannabis culture and lifestyle website. Previously, he pursued a doctoral degree in English at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Shakespearean drama.

Glass Closets on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/212114789478703/

Sarah Rankin is an actor educator, and the director of the Fundy Fringe.

Twitter: @sarahrankin03

www.fundyfringefestival.com
Twitter: @fundyfringefest

Aleena resides in London, ON with her husband William – who Directed “Passing Notes.” Aleena and William are very proud parents to their two sons, Lennon and Fletcher. Aleena is an actor, playwright and the proprietor of My Neighbour’s Attic. She has co-written and appeared in “Two Prozacs Short of a Hap-P Meal” and “Occupy the Man Cave,” both of which were produced by Theatre Provocateur. She is thrilled to be premiering her new solo project, “Passing Notes,” at Fundy Fringe Festival in Saint John New Brunswick, this August 21st to 25th.

Details and Tickets: https://www.fundyfringefestival.com/show/passing-notes/

Married to a spouse who works for the foreign service, American born Alexander, has lived in London, Berlin and currently in Toronto. He made his Toronto stage debut in HANGMAN at Storefront Theatre. Last summer he performed at the Toronto Fringe Festival in LETTERS TO ANNEBELLE as well as the Summer Works Festival in THE NAILS and was most recently seen in the world premiere of FOR BOTH RESTING AND BREEDING for Talk Is Free Theatre in Barrie. And A GIRL LIVES ALONE another Summer Works project.

His solo play, THROW PITCHFORK, premiered off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop and ran regionally at the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, and won a Special Honors Award at the Thespis International Monodrama Festival in Kiel, Germany.

He has worked often at the Kitchen Theatre Company appearing in OPUS, BROKE-OLOGY, AFTER ASHLEY, THE WHIPPING MAN and SUNSET BABY.

His international stage credits include ON THE WATERFRONT directed by Steven Berkoff, which played London`s West End, the Edinburgh Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

He played the role of Ross in the Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg’s inaugural production of Edward Albee s, THE GOAT or WHO IS SLYVIA? in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

His play SCHWARZ GEMACHT* was produced in spring of 2014 at the English Theatre of Berlin, in Berlin Germany and brought back for a 2nd run in 2015.

His training includes the Stella Adler Studio, and the Meisner technique with Richard Pinter.

Alexander is appearing in Theatre Mischief's A Girl Lives Alone, starting August 11 at the 2018 Summerworks Festival.

He will also be appearing in Soulpepper's fall production of The Royale by Marco Ramirez directed Guillermo Verdecchia.

*Now retitled CHWARZ GEMACHT (or) How Klaus Found His Blackness

Dauntless City Theatre presents Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

In this fast-paced queer contemporary staging, the hijinks and heartbreak of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing come to life as you've never seen them before. You'll follow the story around the park on foot, getting up close and personal with all the adventure, romance, and deception of this timeless tale.

This event is welcoming to humans and dogs of all ages, and is wheelchair-accessible. Berczy Park, Toronto. Admission is by PWYC donation.

Dauntless City Theatre produces classical theatre where you least expect it.