Suburban Beast

Suburban Beast is the performance company of playwright and director Jordan Tannahill and an ever-changing roster of some of Canada’s most exciting young artists. The company is dedicated to the creation of multi-disciplinary performance works that use non-fictive source material as their creative departure point. The company has begun to build a name for itself in creating raucous and intimate immersive experiences in which real events, non-actors, and natural locations are choreographed with rigorous theatrical aesthetic. It is in this dialogue between imagination and documentary that Suburban Beast finds its unique voice.

Jordan's work has been developed and presented at prominent stages across Canada. Recent endeavors includes: I Dream Neon Love, (Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s Magnetic Words series, May 2005), In All Things Right and Good (winner of Tarragon’s Twenty Under Twenty playwriting competition, May 2007), Squashed (Rhubarb Festival! Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, February 2008), The Fugitive Sea (workshop presentation at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, June 2008), contributing writing for The Pastor Phelps Project (SummerWorks, August 2008), and Get Yourself Home Skyler James (first read at the Canadian Stage Company’s Raw!Raw!Raw! Festival of New Works in December, 2008 and later picked up by Roseneath Theatre for their 2009-2010 season). Through his performance company Suburban Beast, Jordan has co-created: Takes Two Men to Make a Brother (Harbourfront Centre, HATCH: emerging performance projects, March 2009), Cover Your Shadow with Mine (Canadian Stage Company’s Festival of Ideas and Creation, June 2009), and The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight (SummerWorks, August 2009). In 2007 he was honored as one of Canada’s Top Twenty Under Twenty.

Becky has worked for several years with Odyssey Theatre, a commedia d'el arte company in Ottawa, as Box Office Manager, Front of House Manager and most recently Associate Producer and Production Stage Manager. Recent Toronto credits include Stage Manager for Dead Man's Party and Final Flight of the Pheonix (Monkeyman Productions), Head Electrician for Mass Exodus Chriaroscuro (Ryerson Theatre), Technical Director for Richard the Third (Ryerson Theatre), and Technical Director for Suburban Beast's Tales Two Men to Make a Brother (Harbourfront Centre; HATCH: emerging performance projects).