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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.
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Since founding Suburban Beast in 2008, Jordan has written and directed: Post Eden (SummerWorks, 2010), Insurgency (Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2010), The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight (SummerWorks, 2009; winner of the Spotlight Award), Cover Your Shadow with Mine (Canadian Stage Company’s Festival of Ideas and Creation, 2009), and parts 1 and 2 of The Fratrilogy: Takes Two Men to Make a Brother (HATCH: emerging performance projects, Harbourfront Centre, 2009), and Ragnarok Out with Your Cock Out! (Theatre Centre, 2009). His play, Get Yourself Home Skyler James, first read at the Canadian Stage Company in December, 2008, was toured to Toronto-area high schools by Roseneath Theatre in 2009 and 2010.
As a playwright he was short-listed for Tarragon Theatre’s RBC Under 30 Playwriting Competition for Supernova in B Minor in 2009, won Tarragon Theatre’s Twenty Under Twenty new play competition in 2007 for In All Things Right and Good, and won the Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s new play competition for I Dream Neon Love in 2005. His play Squashed was developed through the Young Creator’s Unit at Buddies in Bad Time’s Theatre and his play, The Fugitive Sea, was read at the Canadian Stage Company, both in 2008. In 2009 Jordan contributed writing to Ecce Homo’s smash-hit The Pastor Phelps Project. Jordan is currently working on a stage adaptation of Elizabeth Hay’s Giller Prize winning novel Late Nights on Air with director Alisa Palmer. |
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Becky has worked as Suburban Beast’s production manager on Post Eden (SummerWorks, 2010), Ragnarok Out with Your Cock Out! (Theatre Centre, 2009), The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight (SummerWorks, 2009), and Takes Two Men to Make a Brother (HATCH: emerging performance projects, Harbourfront Centre, 2009). With Odyssey Theatre, a commedia d'el arte company in Ottawa, she worked as Box Office Manager, Front of House Manager and most recently, Associate Producer and Production Stage Manager. As a student at Ryerson Theatre School, she was production manager and technical director of Richard III and was technical director of Serious Money (co-production with Nightwood Theatre). In 2010, Becky obtained a B.F.A. in Performance Production from the Ryerson Theatre School. She is currently interning at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. |
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Paul first came aboard Suburban Beast as producer of Post Eden (SummerWorks, 2010). He has worked as an intern at Tarragon Theatre and Opera Lyra Ottawa; as assistant stage manager of A Poe Cabaret at Luminato (2009) and St. Lawrence Parks Commission’s A Seaway Story (2009); and as stage manager for anitafrika!’s benu (SummerWorks, 2009) and the Yonge Centre’s CanWest Cabaret (2008). In 2010, Paul obtained a B.F.A. in Performance Production from the Ryerson Theatre School. He is currently interning at Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. |
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C.J. first came aboard Suburban Beast as lighting designer of Post Eden (SummerWorks, 2010). Other credits include: assistant lighting designer to Kim Purtell, Alley Co-Op (Where's My Money?, dir. David Ferry), b current (rock.paper.sistahz9 festival), Ryerson Theatre School (Serious Money, In The Dark, Alcestis), Act II Studio (The Poor of New York, Because Their Hearts Were Pure, The Fan), Theatre Engine (Bent). In 2010, C.J. obtained a B.F.A. in Performance Production from the Ryerson Theatre School, where she specialized in lighting design under the tutelage of Sholem Dolgoy. |
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Benjamin Carson – Carpentry
Stephen Hession – Web Design
Daniel Karasik, Jason Maghanoy – Beasts-in-Residence
Samuel Lebel-Wong – Cinematography
Meryl McMaster, Caitlyn Weld – Photography
Acey Rowe – Stage Management
Sarah Sherman – Youth and Community Liaison
Iris Turcott – Dramaturgy
Jacob Zimmer, Darren O’Donnell – Mentorship |
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