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A very simple show with very simple rules. I'll do something for you (The Audience) And then? Then I'll do something for ME....hehehehe! One for you. One for me. Back and forth, all show long. OUTSTANDING NEW CREATION - OTTAWA FRINGE "Horrifyingly Funny." Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Leslie Cserepy About the Artist Leslie Cserepy is an actor, improviser, and bouffon from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Based in Ottawa, he’s performed in dozens of theatre productions including Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman, and Glengarry Glen Ross. On screen, he’s appeared in commercials for TD, McDonald's—even the M&M's. As an improviser, he’s played festivals in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto with troupes like CAFE AU LAIT and ROOOKIE PEPPS . He co-produces You've Been Warned: A Bouffon Cabaret in Toronto and debuted his first solo show 1ForUOne4Me at Ottawa Fringe 2024, winning “Outstanding New Creation.” Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes & language; sexual content; mature content; COVID19. Sensory warnings: Flashing lights; loud sudden sounds; allergens on stage; audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
20 Questions follows paranormal investigators Sasha and Harley, as they aim to discover the supernatural in the PNW. On their investigations, they meet a sassy harbinger of doom, who offers to play a game in exchange for keeping them from their 'horrible fate'. Will our savvy investigators learn enough about this frivolous spirit to save themselves? Come join our investigators as they journey through dangerous locales like caves, churches, and more! No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Hinox/Ty Wesley Stage Managing by - Addie Tonn Performed by - Mandi McLeod, Lexi Redman, Frankie Wilson About the Artist Hinox / Ty Wesley has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. While most of their theatre career has been as an actor, fey have had another of her scripts performed at Nanaimo Fringe 2020, 'Gender Sucks!' now 'Mad as in Angry' in an experimental live YouTube format. Currently, xey are also the founder and main Festival Director for Victoria RenFaire, with an aim to highlight Indigenous whimsy and joy. 20 Questions is one of aer favourite plays ve's written and is very excited to get share it with you this year! Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions of racialized violence; mentions of implied suicide. Sensory warnings: Strobe; flashing lights; intentional overstimulation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Have you ever wondered what happens to waste when you throw it away? Join Trash and Treasure as they welcome today’s recycling haul to the transfer station! A Waste of Stage Time is an interactive theatrical experience exploring waste, sustainability, and the value we bestow upon others. Learn about responsible waste management, participate in a live game show, and enjoy parody versions of hit karaoke songs (or, as we like to call it: Paradoke!) while Trash and Treasure learn how to better care for one another… No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Logan Swain & Sadie Fox About the Artist For 30 years, Theatre SKAM has created provocative theatre that inspires and challenges audiences in Victoria and beyond. Known for our sense of fun, we create theatre that is innovative, engaging, and above all, never boring. Artistic & Managing Director Logan Swain is a Métis artist and designer with a burning desire to make a difference in the world by telling stories that value truth and honesty while remaining playfully curious. Sadie Fox is a white, non-binary artist, founder of The Sustainable Fox, and passionate about making sustainability accessible and playful, especially when merging their passions for waste reduction and performance. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
What 'Merica Deplores EXPOSED Explores! 34x Award-Winning Fringe Producing Artist & Former Vice President of Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) Beth Marshall (Outstanding Individual Performance-Orlando Fringe 2025) headlines her true story Paducah Cheerleader with opening storyteller Bobby Wesley (Producer Award-Atlanta Fringe) Two coming of age stories from rural 'Merica. Hosted by JUICE The Trauma Clown. Featuring AUDIENCE anonymous confessions nightly. JOSIE NIXON is the visionary creator of EXPOSED Storytelling based in Denver Colorado. She brings storytellers together to share their truths exploring all areas of the human experience! "I was thinking about EXPOSED long after leaving the theatre. I loved it"-Analog Artist Digital World "Powerful Stuff"-Orlando Sentinel "Empathy-Eliciting Storytelling"- Orlando Weekly "JUICE is a superb MC"-Honor Conon (Denver) Credits Created by - Josie Nixon Written by - Beth Marshall, Josie Nixon, Bobby Wesley Directed by - Beth Marshall & Josie Nixon Produced by - Beth Marshall Presents & Exposed Storytelling Lighting Design by - Rowyn Sam Sound Design by - Blue Estrella Poncho Design by - Julianna Aberle-McClellan Promotional Design by - C-MAC The Art Wizard Projections by - Blue Estrella About the Artist BETH MARSHALL is a 34x Award-Winning Fringe Producing Artist, Former Vice President of Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals, Co-Founder of United States Association of Fringe Festivals and Former Producing Artistic Director of Orlando Fringe and has been CEO/Producing Artistic Director of Beth Marshall Presents for 16 years and mentors/ manages.coaches and consults with Artists/Festivals/Talent across the globe.She also writes, acts, directs and creates stained glass art with her hubby on the mountaintop in Colorado. She is Mama to all animals & wayward artists and is fiercely dedicated to Theatre for Social Change in all forms. BMP is committed to producing theatre that challenges our audiences, deeply explores the human condition a with a special focus on contemporary and newer works, original premieres, socio-political dramas, touring festival circuits and bridging the gap for emerging artists transitioning to professional theatre and manages 17 artists within the US & Canada. JOSIE NIXON: Michigan born and raised to be a good Christian boy, Josie changed course by pursuing passions more aligned with the fringes of our communities. After a goal to own restaurants, Josie fell into nonprofit work where their passion for the cause wasn't aligned with how board members believed status quo was upheld. In order to turn passion into change, Josie started EXPOSED storytelling in 2022 to make change how they best saw fit. Now Josie focuses on change for all communities who are willing and brave enough to step through the doors of their theater. With dozens of storytellers taking the stage and thousands of audience members embracing their community, Josie lifts the voices of anyone who believes their lives should be lived EXPOSED. JUICE THE TRAUMA Clown is the charming and sassy MC that weaves the evening of stories, audience confessions & collective human experiences together thru a Screed cursing the powers & failed structures of 'Merica. EXPOSED STORYTELLING: These are the stories of your community, of the people in your coffee shops, your neighborhoods, your friends and families, your partners. these are the stories that are long forgotten, forever whispered, and shielded from you until tonight. Our storytellers share with you what is really happening in the lives of those around us, what we carry with us, what has shaped the way we interact with the world and our community. we are connected when we share the stories of our lives. this is community healing. Join us. Together, we’ll create a space where the unspeakable is shared and the power of human connection is celebrated. BOBBY WESLEY: Orlando Story Club Co-Founder/Host/ Storyteller (BEST OF ORLANDO WEEKLY Multiple Award Winner) and solo Fringe touring Artist- (a)Political (Winner of Atlanta Fringe's Producer Award) is a writer, host, stand-up, marketing consultant and all around fabulous human. NICOLE ALTON: MOB BOSS/AKA Front of House/Show Manager and wrangler of all actors and liaison to technicians and audiences. Nicole manages EXPOSED in Denver while being on the road with us as well. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; violence; sexual content; mentions themes or depictions of interracial relations and contextual racialized language; stories of violence and abuse. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction & participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this smart and daring piece about a lovable hoser’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. He’s no “idiom,” and in a dynamic display of stupidity, Larry offers stand-up comedy and life-couching wisdom, before discovering something hidden deep within his psyche. Bob and Dog Mckenzie meets Feminism? Self-help meets headbanging? Gear Down, Big Rig, you might get sideways. “I don’t transcend in the theatre on a regular basis, but Larry opened me up and took me to a higher plane. Roberts’s clowning technique is first-rate — once she gets you laughing, she will not fucking let up.”- Colin Thomas Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Candy Roberts Directed by - Sonia Norris About the Artist Candy Roberts is a Canadian Performance artist and fifth-generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səlílwətaɬ(Tsleil- Waututh), and xwməθkwəyəm (Musqueam) territories, also known as Vancouver. Her original works encompass physical theatre, music, and clown to investigate the humour and heartbreak of our social and human conditions. She is a somatic practitioner and an avid researcher of CREATIVITY, and the including the connections between self-expression, mental health, and community. Candy tours internationally with her award-winning solo show; LARRY, a “daring, provocative and hilarious” gender-bending feminist comedy. She is also the artistic director of CANDY BONES THEATRE which devises and intensively tours innovative, immersive, and original theatre for families and young audiences. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; depictions or mentions of substance use. Sensory warnings: Strobe; flashing lights; haze. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
A hot-shot government communications director has twenty minutes to retrieve an embarrassing, career-ending invitation erroneously sent out in his name before the media or public find out about it. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - David Heyman Directed by - Francis Matheu About the Artist David Heyman has written several short plays for Fringe festivals in Edmonton, Vancouver and Nanaimo and now Victoria. They include "Digby & Glass" (Pick of the Fringe Nanaimo 2020), "The Great Might-Have-Been" (Pick of the Fringe Nanaimo 2021), and "Bathsheba And The Books" (Edmonton Fringe 2023). He's also shot three short films "Cutline," "Don't Ask," and the upcoming "Omer's Odyssey." He was a long-time political reporter for the Calgary Herald and also worked as a journalist in Quesnel and Prince George. He's currently a financial advisor for Edward Jones in Victoria. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
James Bay United Church
SITE A
Come support the Calgary Zoo/Wilder Institute in a brand new province-mandated enrichment initiative. As an advocate for those who are often not listened to, Zookeeper Chelsea has organized an open mic for the residents of the zoo. Through a variety of mediums including but not limited to standup, poetry, and song, the animals will discuss topics such as body image, aging, grief and loss, addiction, and belonging. Join them as they express the most vulnerable and honest parts of the human spirit in a uniquely animalistic way... An electric, emotional evening awaits! Credits Created by - Marlo Hepburn, Joseph McManus, Ciarán Volke About the Artist Comprised of Joseph McManus (director of the award-winning show Rat Academy), Ciarán Volke (half of award-winning comedy duo COWBOY), and Marlo Hepburn (owner of an award-winning heart). Sometime between the hours of 10 and 11pm on June 10th 2024, at the play structure on Kensington Close NW between 12th Street and 13th Street, Three Cheese was born out of an abundance of joy. Collectively, the three Cheeses have years of experience in theatre, improv, marching band, clown, dance, walking around, transcendence, amelioration, radical acceptance, and having a really good time. They do whatever. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
It’s 1997, the future. Snake Plisskin must clear his name, and if he feels like it, save Canada. The Canadian comedy hit of 2024 finally comes to Victoria! A visual feast with heart-pounding action sequences, uproarious physical comedy, and dynamic shadow puppets, "Escape From Victoria" is sure to be the action-comedy event of the summer. Rod Peter Jr. ("Kitt and Jane," "The War of 1812") teams up with Tamlynn Bryson ("Bedwetter," "(in)decision") to deliver a high-octane rollercoaster of entertainment. The dynamic duo masterfully pay tribute to genre films while infusing their own comedic twist that promises to leave audiences in stitches. This must-see event will leave you gasping for breath, wiping away tears of laughter, and relishing in the sheer joy of live theatre. “★★★★1/2” -Edmonton Journal “★★★★” -Winnipeg Free Press WINNER - Jury’s Choice Award & Most Athletic Performance - Ottawa Fringe 2024 SOLD OUT RUN - Ottawa Fringe 2024 “An action-packed, campy, rollercoaster ride of a show.” -Parton and Pearl Toronto “...ball-bustingly hilarious…I don’t remember the last time I laughed that hard” -Next Magazine Toronto “A show that so clearly has a love for theatre and the Fringe ingrained in it. It succeeds in kicking some serious ass.” -Intermission Magazine “A narrative that is as hilarious as it is thought-provoking” -APT613 Ottawa “The 1997 soundtrack is A+” -MyEntertainmentWorld Toronto “A smart and deeply silly low-budget action movie onstage” -Sesaya Arts Magazine Toronto “This side-splitting satire will leave you laughing long after the production’s finished” -A View From the Box Toronto Credits Created by - Tamlynn Bryson and Rod Peter Jr. Dramaturgy by - Andrew Young Costume and Puppet Design by - Sarah Wilson About the Artist Rod Peter Jr. and Tamlynn Bryson join forces to create a hilarious and electric duo in "Escape From Victoria." Tamlynn made her Fringe debut at the 2015 Ottawa Fringe and has been touring her solo shows ("Bedwetter", "(in)decision") to festivals ever since. Celebrated for her impeccable comic timing and magnetic stage presence, Bryson seamlessly slips into the role of Snake Plisskin. Rod ("Kitt and Jane", "The War of 1812") has been a staple of Fringe festivals for over 20 years. He compliments Bryson’s performance with his unique comedic flair, dynamic physicality, and a comprehensive knowledge of genre films. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; sexual content; adult themes; violence. Sensory warnings: Flashing lights; loud sudden sounds; limited audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
Meet Evie and Alfie — a retired, quintessentially British couple — as they potter around their house, drinking tea, bird spotting and reminiscing. From multiple award-winning Fringe legends Alex Dallas (Horseface, Sensible Footwear) and Jimmy Hogg (The Potato King) comes a comedy full of wit, verve and heart. Credits Written by - Alex Dallas & Jimmy Hogg Directed by - James Gangl About the Artist Alex Dallas is a writer, actor and performer from London, England. As a founder member of female comedy troupe, Sensible Footwear, she has toured the world and performed at the most prestigious festivals and theatres, including the Edinburgh Fringe, the Adelaide Fringe, the Glastonbury Festival and the Canadian Fringe and Comedy Festival circuit, as well as Just For Laughs. Her one woman shows, Goddess, and Drama Queen, aired on CBC TV, The W Network, Bravo TV and CBC Radio. Horseface, her most recent show won Best Solo Performance at the Ottawa Fringe 2024. Jimmy Hogg is a writer, comedian and storyteller who has made his name on the Fringe circuit over the last 20-years with his high-energy, physical, tangential style. Shows include Curriculum Vitae, Figgy Pudding, Like A Virgin, and The Potato King. In 2017 and 2018 A Brief History of Petty Crime SOLD OUT at the legendary Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Comparisons to Eddie Izzard, Rik Mayall, and John Oliver (and other British people) are frequent if not always accurate or deserved. He has numerous awards and merits and is a 12x BEST OF FRINGE WINNER. James Gangl won the Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship and a Canadian Comedy Award for Best One Person Show for his first solo show, Sex, Religion & Other Hang-ups. James has since written four solo shows and his work has been heldover at The Edmonton Fringe Festival, featured at Intrepid Theatre’s UNO Fest in Victoria and at the United Solo Festival in New York City. James is a Moth storyslam winner and performed at the Moth Grand Slam in Los Angeles. James currently teaches at the legendary Second City in Toronto. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Struggling with your finances? Fearing falling behind? Join Matthew, a bright-eyed white collar associate as he discovers that your financial shortcomings may not be a YOU problem. They're an US problem. *Warning - not actual financial planning advice. Credits Created by - Ian Simms About the Artist Ian Simms is a graduate of the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre program (2014). The creator's of previous Fringe shows "The Problem with Facebook" and "The Stephen Harper Play", he enjoys creating one-act plays on social commentary. You may have seen performing in community productions around town, including Bema's "Visiting Mr. Green" in late 2022. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
Compared to erotic games in the village bath and shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, refugee life is beyond boring. So Ukrainian Baba (grandma) is brewing up Old Country mayhem. Between magical encounters with Nature spirits and hilarious dating advice---“Grab both his ears, or you’ll be sorry!”---she confesses to ending both Nazis and an abusive husband with common kitchen items. In a rollicking monologue as dark and playful as the Slavic soul, Baba will lead you into the goddess-centred culture of Eastern Europe’s Indigenous people. Enjoy a raunchy Cossack song or two, a lesson in How to Complain Like a Ukrainian, and a chilling traditional curse for Putin, “May you be kicked by a duck!” Baba entertainingly relives ancient shamanic practices that sparked the original werewolf legend. Oral history is supplemented by Raisa’s diligent academic research into the work of neolithic anthropologists, and the records of Herodotus and Hippocrates. The latter described Ukraine’s Amazon warriors as bowlegged and smelling of horse, to which Baba responds, “What is problem here?” She mocks MAGA with a fierceness that can only come from the proud Ukrainian intellects that developed x rays, immunology, helicopters, and the first European democratic constitution. Not to mention "Fight Club" and "Heart of Darkness." She has been avidly pursued by Chuck Palahniuk for the details of her cowgirl adventures. Raisa spent decades collecting stories from survivors of Soviet and Holocaust terror, including her family. Baba is a composite of these invincible souls. Her interpretations are for the main part true, deepened by the complexity of her intersecting Ukrainian and Jewish roots. Her humorous cultural history book, “Baba’s Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food” has been a bestseller for ten years. It will be available at shows along with its follow up, plus hand beaded jewelry. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress specially selected this book as representative of the immigrant experience. It is also available at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada. Deeply spiritual and satirical at once, Baba’s monologue and newest book relate her Halloween cemetery vigil in one of Canada’s secret gulags, a subarctic Slavic internment and slavery camp. “I sat on the highway built by my own people, weeping. My little car rocked with each passing truck. The miserable graveyard beside the railroad tracks was inaccessible, its signage marred by a lurid yellow motel billboard. I finally tossed the sheaf of wheat I’d brought for the ancestors, into the adjoining ditch, knowing they’d understand. Maybe some kernels will sprout and form their own memorial.” Baba would like to offer complimentary tickets to the creative partners swept up in her Victoria adventures: the Beaver Lake scuba diver whose air tank she mistook for a floating cooler while skinny dipping (she wasn’t trying to kill you; she just wanted a sandwich), and the Brad Pitt lookalike who drove her to the Elk Lake vet with an injured duck (sorry for the poop on your seatbelt). In the heat of the moment, she never learned your names. And what is a Poopchik, anyway? Oi yoi yoi! No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created/written/produced by - Raisa Stone About the Artist Raisa Stone began performing as a toddler Houdini, escaping cribs on Sears commercials. She was a protégé of Ralph Cole (The Nylons). Her Baba stories were mentored by Lina de Guevara, and her comedy by Steve Allen, who placed her book in the Los Angeles Public Library. She is a Canada Council for the Arts designated professional in five categories. A Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir alumna who has won New York City Opera and Banff Centre scholarships, Raisa is an environmental and animal advocate. She led the campaign to preserve Fernwood’s urban forest, trained her street-rescued Borys as Canada’s first service rabbit, and persuaded her MP to table her horse anti-slaughter petition slaughter. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; violence; sexual content; descriptions of war, internment & labour camps; mentions of sexualized & racialized violence; mentions of murder & suicide. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds; audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Dahlia is a little girl trying to find her voice. In a world where everyone gets a guardian angel, she finds herself with a feral demon named Phoenix HellFire who shows her how to cope with life's bullshit through the art of drag. With the guidance of her demon Dahlia goes on a journey confronting her queer identity and female rage. In a world that wants little girls to behave Phoenix encourages Dahlia to violently celebrate her freakiest, feral and most authentic self. Credits Created/written by - Dahlia-Raphael Performed by - Dahlia-Raphael Artistic Producer - Natalie Peters Stage Manager - Alivia Sabatino Movement Advisor - Isabella Buonaiuto About the Artist Dahlia-Raphael (Creator/ Performer) Dahlia-Raphael is a non-binary queer performing artist and soon-to-be graduate of UBC’s BFA in acting program. They are the recipient of a Centennial Scholars award, a graduate of Douglas College's acting program and a partner of StoryFreak Commedia Collective. They have performed in theatre shows, indie films, commercials, and in drag as Phoenix HellFire. They are a multidisciplinary artist and a lover of physical theatre, movement, dance, flow arts, and drag. They are a silly little freak creating authentic, soul-filled performances that make people feel alive and believe art can help us heal through life's most uncomfortable truths. They dare you to find your joy again. Isabella Buonaiuto (Movement Advisor) Isabella Buonaiuto is an interdisciplinary artist based on the land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As a performer, they have recently worked on The Last of the Pelican Daughters (Fay Nass) and TomorrowLove (Ming Hudson). Their artistic interest lies in exploring how embodiment, movement, and devised creation can be utilized as a tool for collective change and community engagement. Alivia Sabatino (Stage Manager) Alivia Sabatino (she/they) is a Vancouver-based artist. Recent performance credits include Storm in The Last of the Pelican Daughters, John Heminges in The Very Book Indeed, and Celio in For the Love of Citrus: A Commedia Dell’arte—all with UBC Theatre. Most recently, they served as Assistant Stage Manager for Western Gold’s 2025 production of Here We Go. Liv is also a partner in StoryFreak Collective, creating Commedia-inspired stories that explore youth and identity. They’re thrilled to be part of the Phoenix Hellfire team at Victoria Fringe! Natalie Peters (Artistic Producer) Natalie Peters (she/they/he) is a devoted performer, director, producer, and poet. They obtained a diploma in Language, Literature, and Performing Arts from Douglas College, and further ventured into Decrouxian mime (L’ecole Omnibus, Montreal) and Pachinko clown (Fantastic Space Enterprises, Vancouver). Their performances and poetry are a harmonious blend of creativity and unwavering passion for the arts, characterised by a showcase of mindful vulnerability. As a producer, they are dedicated to making the dreams of their fellow artists come to life, guided by their values of communication, integrity, honesty, and perseverance. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; mentions of suicidal thoughts, mentions of substance use; stripping to undergarments. Sensory warnings: Strobe; loud sudden sounds; audience participation/interaction; fake gore; allergens on stage. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
From crowded streets of North India to quiet Canadian winters, I AM OK follows unpredictable journey through culture shocks, silent struggles and unexpected joys. With humour and hears it captures beautiful chaos of starting over and the strange way life says, “you’re ok.” Credits Created/written by - Amit Solanki About the Artist My name is Amit Solanki, originally from India, Canada (I live in Victoria) is now home. I started my standup comedy in Montreal and have performed in all the major cities in Canada. I was featured on the CBC’s North by Northwest by Sheryl McKay, for my one man yoga comedy show “Spiritualarious “ produced at Edmonton Fringe Festival 2024, Victoria Fringe Festival in 2017, 2022, 2024. Also, at Nanaimo Fringe Festival in August 2023. I like to find the funny in silly and compare it with events of my life from different cultures. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Step into a world of music, movement, and emotion with The Joan Bessie Cabaret—a soul-stirring collaboration between The Joan Bessie Duo and four dynamic dancers. Known for their groove-driven, harmony-rich sound, The Joan Bessie Duo delivers an original live music experience that’s both intimate and powerful. In this Fringe-exclusive cabaret, their evocative songs come to life through contemporary choreography by Nicole Bennett, Laura Bartlett, and Amanda Zink—each bringing a unique voice and vision to the stage. Together, these artists weave a rich tapestry of sound and movement, exploring connection, release, and the cathartic power of letting go. Through lush vocals, raw lyrics, and striking expression, The Joan Bessie Cabaret invites audiences to feel deeply, move freely, and reflect on the beauty and struggle of the human experience. Whether you're drawn to live music, contemporary dance, or simply seeking something fresh and heartfelt at this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, this performance promises to leave a lasting impression. Come for the music. Stay for the movement. Leave feeling a little more alive. Embrace the vibe. Move to the music. Feel the release. This is The Joan Bessie Cabaret. Credits Created/written by - Jessica Beach About the Artist Critically acclaimed, chart-topping artist, Joan Bessie brings her original music and diverse songwriting to the 2025 Victoria Fringe festival. After her CBC Top 20 hit, “G.G.", followed by “I Ride Alone” and “Dark Voices” both spending 12 weeks on the Canadian Indie Country Chart, Joan Bessie has just announced the release of her latest collaboration with award-winning Producer, Ryan Dahle, “In Your Mind” - a floating groove that nods to classic Motown. Joan Bessie Music is genre-bending and manages to feel both fresh and familiar. The songs are addictive and the vibe at live shows is inclusive, friendly and safe. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
Juicy Woo-Woo! – the UFO Cabaret – features funky saxman and high-octane action poet John Sobol in a dazzling one-man show that offers a cogent and mind-expanding recap of the latest stunning developments in the weird and wild realm of UFOs. Curious about those so-called drones buzzing nuclear bases in New Jersey last year? Or maybe you’ve seen a UFO yourself? Or perhaps you’re an enthusiastic skeptic looking for something to debunk? If you’re any of the above, or if you're just looking a good time that includes killer sax playing, inspiring wordplay and weird tales of the unexplained, Juicy Woo-Woo! is the UFO cabaret for you. Reviews of John Sobol’s last fringe show, Two Million Years of Technology: “In the expansive world of the Edmonton Fringe, there isn’t a known category for John Sobol. 2 Million Years of Technology…is a tirelessly smart and rigorous blend of performance poetry, history, lecture and political speech — with a jazz intro. 4 STARS” Edmonton Journal “Sobol wields the English tongue like his saxophone, coaxing exotic, melodious and profoundly poetic combinations of words into the air…Sometimes he’s a storyteller, sometimes he’s a philosopher, sometimes he’s a beat poet or an a cappella singer, and sometimes he’s simply this really interesting and intelligent guy having a chinwag with us, his audience friends. 4 STARS” Edmonton Sun Learn more about John Sobol at: www.youareyourmedia.org Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - John Sobol About the Artist Since releasing his first album Blue History in 1991, Sobol's fusion of ear-popping poetics and funky horn has been thrilling audiences across Canada and around the world. SELECTED APPEARANCES Bluesfest (Ottawa) • St Mark's Poetry Project (NYC) • Banff Centre for the Arts • Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) • National Poetry Slam (San Francisco) • Roxy (Prague) • Big Mouth (London, UK) • Little Theatre (Calgary) • Edmonton Fringe Festival • Montreal International Jazz Festival • Vancouver Folk Festival • Vancouver Jazz Festival • Hard Rock Café (Orlando) “Sobol wields the English tongue like his saxophone, coaxing exotic, melodious and profoundly poetic combinations of words into the air. 4 STARS" Edmonton Sun Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Stuck in an endless loop of turning a dagger on herself, Juliet breaks out of her tragedy in search of a reason for her tragic demise. On the way, Juliet recruits a team of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters to find out why they’ve been forced to die. Can they alter their fate or are they doomed to play out the same tragic tales for the rest of eternity? “Award-winning evisceration of Shakespeare’s Verona Tragedy” -Orlando Weekly “…hilarious simply because it’s so audacious and unexpected.” -Colin Thomas “…an example of the new heights that can be achieved when we rethink tropes as old as time.” -Winnipeg Free Press ★★★★★ “…a delightful tale that’s equal parts feminist critique, Renaissance romp and bravura acting display…not to be missed.” -NOW Toronto NNNN (out of 4) Credits Written by – Pippa Mackie and Ryan Gladstone Original Score by – Drew Jurecka Directed by – Ryan Gladstone Lightning Design by – Jon Paterson Costume Design by – Nita Bowerman Performed by: Lili Beaudoin as Juliet Ryan Gladstone as Shakespeare Carly Pokoradi as Everyone Else Accessibility Content warnings: Adult language, sexual content, depictions or mentions of cartoonish violence, discussion of suicide. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. About the Artist Monster Theatre Monster Theatre was founded in 2000. Our first play was Fairy Tale: A Choose Your Own Adventure Play, an improvised street theatre show that toured the Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Victoria Fringe Festivals. Our second play The Canada Show: The Complete History of Canada in One toured across the country numerous times winning countless awards. We have developed over 40 original productions for adult and young audiences always with our signature irreverent twist on history and mythology. Plays for young audiences include The Big Rock Show: The Complete History of the World, Mini Masterpieces, The Little Prince, Shakespeare’s Dream, We Now Know: The Complete History of Science and Crisis on Planet Z! Plays for adults include Juliet: A Revenge Comedy, War and Peace, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, No Tweed Too Tight, Assassinating Thomson, Hockey Night at the Puck and Pickle, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, The Shakespeare Show, The Macbeth Show and many, many more. Monster Theatre has become one of Canada’s premiere independent touring theatre companies. Lili Beaudoin – Performer (Juliet) Based out of Vancouver, Lili is an actor, Improvisor and voice artist. Some of her notable theatre credits include Marie in The Nutcracker at Caravan Farm Theatre, Claudia in I, Claudia at The Arts Club, Mimi/scenographer in Blind Date, Brigid Blake in The Humans at Theatre Calgary, Gracie in Gracie at ATP & Belfry and Miranda in The Tempest at Bard on the Beach. Elsewhere Lili’s voice can be heard in several animated shows such as Beat Bugs, Littlest Pet Shop, Rainbow Ruby, Max Steel and My Little Pony. If you’d like to see her do some improv you can catch Lili most weekends at Vancouver’s Tightrope Impro Theatre strutting her stuff on stage and pretending she knows what she’s talking about. Lili is the honoured recipient of the Anthony Holland Scholarship for Outstanding Ability and Dedication as well as a Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Performance by a lead Actress in a Drama. Carly Pokoradi – Performer (Everyone else) Carly is a collaborative creator, multidisciplinary artist, clown, and scrap collector who trusts her goosebumps. As a theatre-maker, Carly has worked in various capacities with Theatre Replacement, Caravan Farm Theatre, The Chop, and Hardline Productions and has toured the country with sold-out runs on the Canadian Fringe Circuit. Carly is an artistic associate with Monster Theatre, an improviser with Blind Tiger Comedy, a Jessie Richardson Award nominee, and a graduate of Studio 58. As artist-in-residence with the incredible @hammockresidency, she recently showed her textile art at the James Black Gallery in so-called Vancouver. Currently, she is studying to become an ASL-English interpreter and relishing every minute. In her spare time, she sews messily, sleeps deeply, and laughs loudly. Ryan Gladstone – Playwright/Director/Performer (Shakespeare) Ryan currently lives and works in Vancouver as an actor, producer, director, playwright and improvisor. Ryan holds an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Acting, he also spent ten years studying Improvisation Loose Moose Theatre under Keith Johnstone. Ryan is the founder and Artistic Director of Monster Theatre (www.monstertheatre.com) where he has co-created over 25 original plays. Selected writing/directing credits include: Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, The Shakespeare Show, and The Canada Show (Monster Theatre). Selected directing credits include: Hell of a Girl (revolver Festival), Hunter Gatherers (Staircase Theatre), Ubu Roi (UBC). Ryan has six one-person plays including War and Peace, No Tweed Too Tight, Every Story Ever Told, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, Napoleon’s Secret Diary and Confessions of a Class Clown. Pippa Mackie – Playwright Pippa Mackie is an award-winning actor, playwright, and producer. Her work has been performed on stages and at festivals across North America. Most notable credits include The Progressive Polygamists co-written/performed with Emmelia Gordon, which toured across Canada for many years including the Just For Laughs Festival. Her one-act play Starman, which was originally commissioned and produced as part of Upintheair Theatre’s The Array, was adapted into an audio drama as part of Sound the Alarm Theatre’s podcast series in 2021 and received 3 Berlin Film Haus nominations including Best Scriptwriting and Best Podcast. She is also the co-writer of a mockumentary comedy podcast titled Philippa Po: Changing Minds with Ryan Gladstone produced by Sound the Alarm Theatre. Her most recent play Hurricane Mona was co-produced by Touchstone Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre and received its World Premiere production in November 2023. Hurricane Mona was created as part of the Arts Club Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Unit, was awarded Touchstone Theatre’s David King Prize for Comedy in 2022 and Pippa was a participant of the 2023 Banff Playwrights Unit. Pippa is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Drew Jurecka – Original Score Drew Jurecka is a Toronto-based violinist/vocalist who is comfortable in many genres. Trained classically at the Cleveland Institute of Music, during his final year Drew played a solo with the great Dave Brubeck and his quartet at Severance Hall. While at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, a summer program for jazz and aspiring studio musicians, Drew had the opportunity to play at the Hollywood Bowl with Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, and Shirley Horn. Drew has played, written or arranged on more than 150 records, including several JUNO-winning and Grammy-nominated albums. He can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks. Drew has toured internationally as a sideman and with his own projects. He spent five years on the road with Jeff Healey and now plays as part of Jill Barber’s regular band. He is a faculty member at Humber College where he has helped to develop a unique jazz strings program that includes technique classes, ensembles and private lessons. Jon Paterson – Lighting Designer/Stage Manager Jon has been an active member of the Canadian theatre community for the past 25 years and has performed in numerous theatres and festivals including the Centaur Theatre and Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal), Canoe Theatre Festival, Workshop West and Mayfield Theatre (Edmonton), Rogue Festival (California), Living Arts Centre (Mississauga), Vertigo Mystery Theatre (Calgary), the Winnipeg Improv Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. Jon received his training at MacEwan University, where he studied both theatre arts and production. He has also trained with master clown Mike Kennard (Mump & Smoot) and has honed his improv skills at Second City Toronto. Nita Bowerman – Costume Designer Nita Bowerman is a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, mixing the mediums of dance, acting, media art and costume design. Her self-created real time performances are often hybrid works mixing live action with digital content. Her creation and collaboration credits include performing in live and live digital spaces, generating visual content for short art videos and live plays, and making wearable art works and costumes. She has worked with various local theatre companies in a variety of capacities and has performed and screened diy digital video works locally and internationally. Art is the medium through which Nita processes existing. She is an experimenter of form and designer of content, creating works for stage and screen. Thanks Monster Theatre for inviting me to have fun and play! Nita is a graduate of SFU School for Contemporary Arts.
Metro Studio
Metro Studio
"Kin" is an original musical based on the story of Rapunzel. When she learns she isn't who she thought she is, Rapunzel travels down into the magical forest below her tower to find her name. Meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way, this dark and dreamy musical is sure to inspire. A deeply emotional musical journey with unexpected twists and turns. Can't wait to see it again!" - Kurt Archer, Festival Director, Victoria One Act Play Festival Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Lyrics and melodies by Andrew Sawyer Piano by Leif Bradshaw Guitar by Benjamin LeClaire Drums by Dustin Roy Singing by Anton Sokalski, Lauren Steinmann, Samsara Grace and Pollen Conway Design by Beanie Cannataro, Jaden Sokalski and Ashleigh Grace Lane About the Artist Becoming Theater is an experimental theater company based in Victoria, BC. Our work is inspired by the Sanskrit word "Lila" meaning "divine play"; "creation, instead of being an objective for achieving any purpose, is rather an outcome of the playful nature of the divine." Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions, themes, or depictions of substance abuse. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Little Fernwood
SITE D
Winner of "Best Ensemble" and "Best Dramedy" at Victoria Fringe 2024, Alectoria Productions presents "Origins of the Coast"; an interactive site specific whimsical show blending puppetry, grief and environmental fantasy at Macaulay Point Park. Through fleeting moments of dance, exploration, and games that the audience can interact with, "Origins of the Coast" is a wonderful mix of hope, resilience, beauty and fear. What's in the hidden shrubbery? What do you see when you look under that log? What do you hear when you look up? You'll discover the answers as you walk through the beautiful backdrop of Macaulay Point Park. In raw, quiet moments, the creatures and audience at the Point search for one another—unaware that every step, every choice, draws them closer, shaping the story that binds them all. Credits Created by - Alectoria Productions About the Artist Alectoria Productions hopes to bring purposeful theatre to life in utterly immersive site specific performances. The implication of the audience, witnesses, in a story, allows them to explore the concept and solve hypothetical situations in an environment where the stakes are ultimately none, but the feeling presents real. We aim to invoke desire, passion and vulnerability in our performances, whether in a castle, lighthouse, garden, or on a boat! Accessibility Content warnings: Adult themes of grief. Sensory warnings: Potential allergens; outdoor performance, environmental allergies. Optional audience participation, shared public space. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Macauley Point Park
SITE B
Three recent graduates of UVic's Phoenix Theatre: Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power ('The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee', and 'Twelfth Night') are looking to entertain you at this year's Victoria Fringe Festival with 'Outstanding!'- a brand new comedic showcase that features everything you've ever wanted to see onstage. Amaze at the performers, who, in the past, the Times Colonist said, "delivered standout performances", "have oodles of talent", and are "also notable". Watch dreams come into conflict with reality as this show-stopping trio attempts to get through their onstage bucket list before the big leagues. Intrepid's Metro Studio has surely never seen an act so breathtakingly desperate for your attention. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power Produced by - Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power in collaboration with Ballen Works Sound Design by - Jack Storwick Costume Design by - Samantha Frew Set Design by - Carter Lapham and Avery Przyswitt About the Artist The Outstanding! trio consists of three recent graduates of UVic's Phoenix Theatre- Chiara Power, Samantha Frew, and Jack Storwick. They are honoured to be living, learning, listening, and gathering inspiration on unceded Lək̓ ʷəŋən territory. This show was developed in Victoria, BC, with the help of a shared Google document, caffeine, and a dream. As such, the trio also gives thanks to their producer, Ballenworks- a local theatre company based on Lək̓ ʷəŋən territory. Its mission is to focus on the creation of new works, with an emphasis on highlighting and presenting emerging voices in our community. Chiara Power: Mexican-born, American-raised, Chiara Power is a recent grad of UVic’s Phoenix Theatre and has been performing since she was 7. Though her first love is Musical Theatre, Chiara’s love for theatre extends to straight plays, comedies, Shakespeare, and beyond. While performing was her first love, she is also an accomplished teacher, youth mentor, and choreographer. She was most recently onstage as Olivia in Twelfth Night, Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and 100 Years of Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre. Samantha Frew: Born and bred in Newfoundland, Samantha Frew is an east-coast kid in the wild west. A recent graduate of UVic’s Phoenix Theatre, Frew’s latest public performance was as Malvolia in "Twelfth Night", and her other credits include "The Hot L Baltimore" (The Girl), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Cecily), and "Spring Awakening" (Ilse). While acting is her first love, Samantha has worn- and continues to wear- many wonderful hats, including director/assistant director, writer, teacher, choreographer, designer, and visual artist. Jack Storwick: Jack is a Performer / Sound Designer who recently completed his undergraduate degree (BFA Theatre, Minor in Music) at UVic. Past Performance credits include: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" (VP Panch), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Algernon), "Spring Awakening" (Melchior), (Phoenix Theatre). Sound Design: "Twelfth Night", "The Killing Game", "The Hot L Baltimore" (Phoenix Theatre), "The Shop Around the Corner" (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Sound Design / Foley), "Litigation Racket" (Victoria One Act Festival), "A Stranger Remains" (SATCo, Composition). Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; comedic violence. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds; audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
From the nightmarish visions of an outcast Latina comes this surreal collection of short vignettes blended together with a whimsical and eerie flavor. Through objects, physical theater, clowning, and more, audiences are welcome to be submerged into this visual nonsense world inspired by tales, music videos, horror films, and garbage. It's ok to be confused. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Lore Andrea Produced by - Plastik Theatrik Assistant Producer and Creative - Regina Rios About the Artist Plastik Theatrik is the artistic persona of Lore Andrea, with whom she can make her surrealist obsessions come true. A Chilean artist graduated from Club de Teatro and trained in Commedia dell’arte, puppetry, bouffon, clown, and mask. She attended the École Philippe Gaulier and Mask Intensive in Spain thanks to the BC Arts Council. She has created short shows for cabarets and peep shows around town. Her collaborations include Wonderheads, Atomic Vaudeville, SNAFU, SKAM, Impulse, and Gay4Nature (directed Coffee Cantata!). Part of the motor of her creation is garbage, magic, tenderness, and the grotesque. Lore is an ambassador for the BC Culture Days. Regina Rios, a Mexican actor, singer, creator, and producer, graduated from the Canadian College of Performing Arts and with a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Capilano University. Regina has worked with multiple local theatre companies and filmmakers on Vancouver Island. Her piece "A distancia" was shown at SKAMpede 2021 and at Uno Fest from Intrepid Theatre. Regina loves creating new work that pushes boundaries and speaks about her unique immigrant experience and her multicultural identity. Anna Bigland-Pritchard, a creator, connector, and multi-genre singer and musician whose creative practice resides at the intersection of climate, queerness, and community-building. Anna has a Bachelor of Music from Canadian Mennonite University and a Diploma in Performance from the University of Manitoba. She is co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective, an indie opera collective that explores ecology, queerness, and hope through film, workshops, and live performances. Anna also performs musical theatre, jazz, vocal looping/improv, and her own indie-folk music. Michael Bell, a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Born and raised in a settler family on W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territory, he is a multidisciplinary performer seen most recently in Atomic Vaudeville’s spring cabaret. Other recent credits include The Shop Around the Corner and Wind in the Willows (Blue Bridge Theatre), Crone-o-phobia (Atomic Vaudeville), and Under the Bridge (ABC/Quinn Shepard). Accessibility Content warnings: Metaphorical depictions of suicide, death & violence; depictions of animal cock fights. Sensory warnings: Haze. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
This compelling, solo story-telling play transports audiences to the rural villages of Sierra Leone, West Africa in the late 1970s where Nancy worked as a community health nurse for five years. Nancy’s journey is both poignant and humorous. With the patience of local mentors, Nancy adjusted to life and the field-work realities of delivering preventive maternal and child health services. The play is filled with stories about initially blundered and then inspired encounters with village chiefs, traditional birth attendants, and subsistence farmers. Village experiences rattled Nancy’s cultural preconceptions, provoked her notions of social privilege, and forever deepened her global connections. Nancy’s heart-warming and heart-breaking stories about public health work in the villages make audiences laugh and cry. This new play is full of humanity. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - Nancy Edwards About the Artist Rethinking Good Intentions is largely based on my memoir (released by Friesen Press in 2022). My love of theatre and my respect for the oral traditions of the Mende people of Sierra Leone inspired me to write this play. In my retirement from academia, I've turned to stories that connect with hearts and minds. My artistic goal is to bridge cultural divides and explore the bonds of our common humanity through story-telling. I'm thrilled to be the solo performer of my first play. Thanks to those who have provided guidance on my journey of life, public health work, and writing. Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions of sensitive topics including slavery and maternal and newborn deaths. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Join pop star Rayna at the listening party for her new album SEX GODDESS! Performed and written by award winning composer, Riel Reddick-Stevens, produced by House and Body; SEX GODDESS is a solo theatrical mixtape that follows Rayna, at the listening party for her new album. While sharing her album, Rayna takes her audience on the journey of one long, wild night that changed her life and perspective forever. SEX GODDESS uses Hip Hop/ R&B music, comedy and heightened storytelling to explore the relationships between power, bodily autonomy and sense of self in a patriarchal world and business. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Written by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Produced by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Sound Design by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Music Produced by - Ghostboyrj Artistic support and SM by - Jasmine Case Dramaturg/Outside Eye by - Christopher Manousos About the Artist Riel Reddick-Stevens (she/her) is an award winning multidisciplinary creator. She is a graduate of Randolph College and National theatre school of canada, with training in acting and musical theatre. This training has allowed her to develop a practice of connecting to and creating from the body’s memories and experiences. Riel is deeply interested in creating theatre that is accessible to people who have traditionally been withheld from the theatre world, and seeks ways to bring new voices to the art form. Through sound, she currently does this by highlighting natural sounds and mixing them with choral voice and beat production. CHRISTOPHER MANOUSOS Christopher Manousos (they/he) is a theatre director, dramaturg, and arts leader. Christopher is an Artistic Associate and the Assistant to the Artistic Director at Crow’s Theatre and the Artistic Director of House + Body. With House + Body, they explore contemporary reimaginings of classical works, develop new plays, and offer training and mentorship to artists, playwrights and performers. Christopher is an alumnus of the Stratford Festival’s Michael Langham Director’s Workshop and the Shaw Festival’s Neil Munro Intern Directors Program. Christopher has extensively trained in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and Viewpoints with Anne Bogart, SITI Company, and Tadashi Suzuki in New York and Japan. As an educator, Christopher has taught and directed productions at The University of Windsor, Randolph, Sheridan College and the Stratford Festival’s Shakespeare Intensive. UPCOMING: Christopher will be directing The Surrogate as part of Crow’s Theatre’s 25.26 season. Ghostboyrj (He/him), born in Toronto and raised in Brampton, started his music journey at 12 with multiple instruments. His love for poetry and hip-hop inspired him to create music after being introduced to his love for Hip-Hop, where he learned more about the culture. Ghostboyrj combines modern boom bap production styles, soulful melodies, and fun jazzy grooves to create a unique and alternative sound within the ever-evolving hip-hop scene. Pronouns: She/Her. Hometown/Current Town: Toronto. Jasmine is a Jamaican Canadian actor born and raised in Toronto where she currently lives and works. She is a recent Dora Award winner for her role as Phoebe in Truth at Young Peoples Theatre and has most recently appeared as Sidney Brown in FLEX with Crow’s and Obsidian Theatre. As well as Robin in This Feels Like The End; Toronto Fringe, Kara in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner; Obsidian and Crow’s Theatre and Lucy in The Fiancée; Chemainus Theatre Festival . Upcoming Projects: Clyde's at Canadian Stage!. Education/Training: National Theatre School of Canada 2023, Brock University 2020. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; mentions, themes, or depictions of sexualized violence and substance abuse. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Space Queen is a one-person sci-fi drag musical created and performed by queer artist Aaron Nickol (aka Shelita Cox) and produced by Drag Sunday Productions. Blending original synth-based music, spoken word, and theatrical performance, the show imagines a distant future where queer stories have been erased—and one performer dares to bring them back. Through live vocals, narrative world-building, and embodied resistance, Space Queen explores queer survival, ancestral memory, and the radical power of claiming space. Ideal for audiences drawn to queer theatre, drag artistry, futurist performance, and LGBTQ+ storytelling, this is a musical about what it means to remember—and what happens when the erased return to speak. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Aaron Nickol / Shelita Cox About the Artist What happens when the heroes you needed were erased from the story? Space Queen is a one-person sci-fi drag musical, created and performed by Aaron Nickol / Shelita Cox. A synth-laced exploration of queer futures, lost histories, and the power of performance as resistance. Blending song, story, and sequins into a cosmic cabaret, Space Queen is about survival, memory, and the right to take up space. Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions, themes, and depictions of queerphobia and systematic oppression. Sensory warnings: Haze & soundscape throughout; loud sudden sounds. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Danver, playwright and loner, realizes he has questions he never knew he had. Where does someone go for ideas or help? And truth? He is not ready for the answer. Shade Apparel is about wanting to know more and not knowing where to find anything. No latecomers. Credits Created by - Alan Segal Written by - Alan Segal Directed by - Francis G Matheu Produced by - Alan Segal Lighting Design by - Luke Weston Sound Design by - Phil Letourneau Set Design by - Francis G Matheu Performed by - Dan Landry, Nolan Fidyk, Kendra Bidwell About the Artist Imbroglio Theatre was founded by Alan Segal. Under the Imbroglio name, Alan premiered his play, Frey's Anguish, in Victoria in 2014. He is also an author, a documentarian, and a former sociology professor and cable TV host. These different zones of work and interest have taken him to many countries. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Schedule correction: the performance of this show on Aug. 31st is at 1pm. Three improvisers are pushed to their limits by undergoing gruelling physical challenges as they attempt to find the plot. Shock collars, floors of lego, and spicy foods mean there is only one certainty: That’s Gonna Leave a Mark. Join us for this one of a kind Stanford improv experiment. We'll be there. Will you? Produced by Timetheft and Heliopsis Theatre. Website: Timethefttheatre.ca Instagram: Timethefttheatre Heliposistheatreco Credits Created by - Elijah Bell, Theodore Falkiner, and Thomas Moore About the Artist timetheft theatre society strives to create and produce exciting theatre by emerging, queer, and neurodivergent theatre artists. we aim to help artists platform their original and reimagined art in an accessible and engaging manner. Thomas Moore (he/they) is one of timetheft theatre’s co-founders and is proud to be making independent theatre in Victoria. They are a director, designer and improviser who is excited to be improvising for you this summer! Thomas’ previous timetheft credits include: Of Theseus (2023), Carpet (2023) and most recently Endgame (2024). His favourite torture method is stubbing your toe on an ottoman. Youch. Theodore Falkiner is a queer settler theatre artist who grew up on the territories of the Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, and is a founding member of timetheft theatre. Growing up, Theo watched a lot of Monty Python, Laverne and Shirley, and The Muppet Show and these comedians are probably the reason they became funny. Theo found out about improv as a tween and after years of rigorous training has gone on to teach at esteemed institutions like The Canadian Improv Games’ Improv Camp and Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People. Theo’s favorite torture method is a razor scooter to the ankle. Elijah Bell (he/him) is a many hatted individual and the founder of Heliopsis Theatre Co. based in Victoria. Recent credits include writing and directing Spare Parts: A Robot Space Musical (2025), and 600 Seconds (2024), in his free time he enjoys researching forbidden texts and shouting “ITS ALIVE” on dark and stormy nights. His favourite torture method is Scaphism (but not if it happened to him). Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; non-sexual shock collars. Sensory warnings: Voluntary audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
During a party, you can often find the outcasts and misfits finding corners to become wallflowers. The one place of solace away from the sounds, and lights, and stimuli is the bathroom. What happens when multiple people avoiding the party end up in the same one? As they lock out the world and avoid the usual party chaos will they find a way to let each other in. The Bathroom was created in participation at The LEAP program with The Arts Club Theatre. The Bathroom explores what it’s like to take a peak at a room where we normally seek privacy and asks us if one person, on one night, can change how we interact with the world. Credits Created by - August Elzinga About the Artist August Elzinga is a trans non-binary performer, playwright, puppet-lover, and drag artist. Previous works have been featured in the Telling It Bent program with The Frank Theatre and more. August is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts ‘Company C’ program and received their Bachelor of Performing Arts from Capilano University. 'The Bathroom' was created and first presented with The Arts Club Theatre's LEAP Program. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Award-winning comedian and playwright Leif Oleson-Cormack pushes confessional storytelling to its limits in this show about a methodically moronic plan to double-down on unrequited love through a disastrous trip to Disneyland. Featuring criminal acts, surgically-altered sugar daddies, Sinatra impersonators, and a cynically-charged "coming out", this (unfortunately) true story is not to be missed. “Leif Oleson-Cormack shows how two things — storytelling skill and pure fearlessness — can make for truly captivating theatre.” - The Edmonton Journal ★★★★½ "He's scrupulously fair and his account is suffused with compassion and understanding, even for the most predatory characters featured. Wryly amusing from the get-go, he keeps you hooked with the rich, morally shady detail of his story." - The Scotsman ★★★★ “Oleson-Cormack wore his heart on his sleeve throughout his intimate monologue...well-structured and well-written.” - North West End UK ★★★★ “Exquisitely well written stand-up comedy...Leif Oleson-Cormack really knows what he’s doing.” - Butterwort ★★★★ “[T]he show is an unusual fusion of stand-up comedy and theatre. And it capitalizes on the particular appeals of both — the bright forward energy (and sharp-eyed comic observations) of the former, the narrative structure and momentum of the latter. Both the current and the younger Leif’s occupy the stage, in a vivid way. And they make great company for a Fringe hour.” - 12thnight.ca “This is a great one-person autobiographical Fringe show — it’s a honest story above love that manages to be very funny, even though there are some darker moments in this tale. Oleson-Cormack is very likeable and combined with a story full of twists, he keeps the audience engaged in his adventure.” -UMFM Theatre Reviews “Feverish, funny and fantastical, this adventure delivers entertainment on all fronts. Love it.” -JennyRevue.com “Leif Oleson-Cormack shows us where the future of stand-up comedy should lie.” -View Magazine (Pick for ‘Best of Fringe’ 2022) Nominated for the Just for Laughs Award for Outstanding English Comedy in the Frankie Awards (2022 Montreal Fringe) Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - Leif Oleson-Cormack About the Artist Before entering the world of stand-up comedy, Leif Oleson-Cormack was an award-winning Juilliard-trained playwright who designed video games for a living. Since then, he’s been performing his dark, queer, confessional style for audiences across the globe. His critically acclaimed one-man show, The Disney Delusion, recently toured to sold-out houses across Canada, the US, and Edinburgh, and was nominated for the Just for Laughs prize for Outstanding English Comedy at the Montreal Fringe Festival. He won the 2019 Calgary FunnyFest Comedy Competition and has had the pleasure of opening for acts such as Alan Carr, Scott Thompson, and Aparna Nancherla. Accessibility Content warnings: Course language; adult themes. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Murder, Mayhem and Mussolini's Blackshirts are part of this Ramona Dale romantic adventure story set in 1920's. A chance encounter in front of a famous fountain leads Ramona along a path of love, deception, and honour as she makes the choice to get involved. A story set in motion when an Antique camera was found with the initials R. D. and Ramona Dale was born. She was sent off by a wealthy Godmother to bring back pictures of her life. Little did either of them know that taking these pictures would lead Ramona to learn about herself and the secret world of power. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - Hannah Ockenden and Jim Leard Directed by - Jim Leard About the Artist Hannah Ockenden works in various facets of performing arts, with some previous highlights being her role as Helen in All's Well That's Ends Well with the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, touring in Europe and Asia with Germany based Whitehorse Theatre, and South Pacific with Calgary Opera. This is her fourth Victoria fringe but first on stage! Jim Leard is the Founding Artistic Director of The Story Theatre Company, has has a hand in many Fringe shows as a performer, as a Writer, and as a Director, and has worked with most of the Theatre Companies in Victoria. Accessibility Content warnings: Adult themes; stories about murder. Sensory warnings: Flash of a camera. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Kayla had high hopes for 2020 (as did we all). But truly, 2019 had been, up until that point, one of her worst years on record. Her cat died, she had an out-of-town Fringe flop, experienced some minor heartbreak, and almost got evicted because of OCD-related hoarding. With the freshness of the Fringe flop, she almost didn’t enter the lottery for the 2020 Victoria Fringe, figuring she needed a bit more time to lick her wounds. Ultimately leaving it up to the universe (because honestly, she was probably going to be waitlisted anyway, as per usual), the universe decided she was being a baby and told her to suck it up. But in the worst ever example of mixed signals she had ever experienced, a few months later, the universe turned around and said, “Ha. Just kidding.” The five years that followed took her on a journey through new mental health lows, a broken wrist, and a renoviction. But it also brought her opportunities for new beginnings and provided the necessary space to start to heal – mentally and physically. Now, after a five year delay, the universe has given her the chance she missed out on in 2020 – with a much more compelling story to tell this time around. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - Kayla Hart About the Artist Kayla Hart is a 2011 UVic Writing graduate who participated in her first Victoria Fringe in 2012 and has been unsuccessfully applying nearly every year since. She was however lucky enough to be drawn for Fringe lotteries in Vancouver (2014) and Winnipeg (2019) and was selected to workshop a show in the 2016 Intrepid Theatre YOU Show series. After years of being waitlisted, Kayla was finally drawn for the Victoria Fringe again. Unfortunately, it was for the 2020 festival. Five years and quite the tumultuous mental health journey later, she is back with quite the story to tell. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
After a distinguished 30-year career in law enforcement and decades of wowing audiences at fairs, festivals, and community events across the prairies with his whimsical, family-friendly ventriloquist show, Dave Dixon is proud to unveil his latest project: “The Magical World of Ventriloquism – One Man’s Journey.” This hour-long performance offers a behind-the-scenes look at Dave’s remarkable venture into the amazing world of ventriloquism. Combining humour, storytelling, and with the help of his puppet friends, Dave will share the secrets of this unique art form, from the difficult task of pronouncing each letter of the alphabet without the slightest lip movement to creating lovable characters, and mastering the illusion of bringing a puppet to life! With his signature passion, infectious energy, and a knack for connecting with audiences of all ages, Dave’s performance with his puppet characters promises to entertain, educate, and inspire. Whether you’re a lifelong fan of ventriloquism or experiencing it for the first time, “The Magical World of Ventriloquism” is a must-see adventure that will leave you smiling, laughing, and marvelling at this timeless art form. I want to acknowledge my wife, Donna, for her endless support, constructive feedback, and being my biggest fan. Credits Created by - Dave Dixon About the Artist Dave Dixon is a self-taught ventriloquist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a police officer, Dave found a creative outlet in ventriloquism to balance the demands of his job. After countless hours practicing in front of a mirror and years of perfecting his craft, Dave performs at fairs, festivals, and corporate events. With a deep passion for the art of ventriloquism, Dave finds joy in the creative challenge of giving voice and personality to his puppets. His latest production, The Magical World of Ventriloquism - One Man’s Journey, is a heartfelt celebration of his lifelong adventure in bringing characters to life. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Pick Your Path! The award winning Spontaneous Shakespeare Company come to the Victoria Fringe for the first time with Tragedy or Triumph. Come see a once-in-a-lifetime Shakespearian epic, based off of your story! Will it be a heart rending tragedy or an epic romance? Not even the cast knows! Together, everyone will discover a new, lost, (made-up) classic from the Bard! (Audience participation is not required, so come on out and enjoy the show!) "...a delightful celebration of what improv — and Shakespeare — can be." 5/5 Stars - Saskatoon Star Phoenix Best of the Festival - The Orlando Sentinal Critics Choice Award - Outstanding Improv Show - Orlando Fringe Best National Show - Saskatoon Fringe No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - The Spontaneous Shakespeare Company About the Artist The Spontaneous Shakespeare Company is Vancouver’s premiere award winning improvised Shakespeare company. Composed of some of Vancouver’s best acting and improv talent, they bring their hilarious twist on the works of the Bard to audiences all over North America. Founded in 2016 the company has now performed at the Orlando, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, the Vancouver Improv Festival and the Bellingham Improv Festival, with regular performances at home at Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver and many more exciting shows to come. This marks their Victoria Fringe debut! Accessibility Content warnings: Violence. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
It all started when Executive and Artistic Director Dyana Sonik-Henderson found herself captivated by the 1925 gothic and melodramatic silent picture Phantom of the Opera. With a spark of creative inspiration, she quickly became enthralled with old monster pictures and began to experiment with how to transform these iconic movie moments and stories into dance. The result is several short works that bring the classic horror movie genre of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s back to the stage and in 3D. Combining Broken Rhythms’ innovative rhythmical contemporary style you’re in for a captivating and nostalgic experience. This performance is supported by the Victoria Foundation as part of Intrepid Theatre’s Stages & Spaces program. Limited $25 Early Bird tickets available until Monday Sept 1st. Early Bird tickets get early entrance and a pre-show chat (for 7:30pm performances only). Credits Choreography: Dyana Sonik-Henderson Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: Haze. About the Artist Broken Rhythms Victoria Society is a Victoria-based, registered not-for-profit independent dance company founded in 2011 under the artistic direction of Dyana Sonik-Henderson. The company was created to showcase the unique style of Rhythmical Contemporary, to provide local artists with performance and training opportunities, and to support and develop the Canadian arts community. Broken Rhythms has created and produced numerous original works such as SPARK, GRIM, SEVEN, UNIVERSAL HORRORS, THYSELF, INTERNAL RHYTHMS, INTO THE WIRE, 1,000 PIECES OF ∏ , ABOVE ME, CHIARO:SCURO, KNOTTED and ON HOLD that have toured all over Canada. They have been awarded nine Pick of the Fringe awards, named as one of Toronto Star’s “can’t miss shows at the Toronto fringe”, received the LOLA International project award and most recently were invited to perform at Dancing on the Edge/Vancouver Contemporary festival 2025.
Metro Studio
Metro Studio
An actor obsessed with a character who inspired him, fires one shot that would change the nation and echo throughout history. But not the way he hoped! Where's Noonan? presents an original play written by Melissa Blank and directed by David MacPherson. Where's Noonan? Has previously presented at the Victoria Fringe - Confessions of a Catholic School Girl - Silk - George and Gracie: A Love Story As well as - The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine - Oleanna - Angels in America part 1 & 2. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Melissa Blank and David MacPherson About the Artist Melissa Blank has been a regular at Theatre Inconnu, Langham Court theatre and many local theatre companies She performed as Hamlet in a Gender-Bending production, as well as Rosalind from As You Like It with The Victoria Shakespeare Society. David MacPherson has been a director and actor and writer in Victoria for many years. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
James Bay United Church
SITE A
Voices of Every Woman is a documentary theater piece that weaves together the stories of five women who faced gender-based violence with tragic outcomes. Through powerful testimonies and striking stage imagery, this play invites us to reflect on the deep roots of this violence and challenges us to confront our collective responsibility to break this devastating cycle. It is an urgent call to raise our voices and take action to transform this painful reality. Credits Created by - Diana Uscanga About the Artist Producciones Luna Escarlata (Scarlet Moon Productions) is a Mexico-based theater company founded by Diana Uscanga. Through powerful, socially conscious performances, the company creates safe and transformative spaces for dialogue, healing, and activism. Their work explores urgent social topics such as gender-based violence, mental health, and environmental care, using documentary theater, storytelling, and poetic imagery. With a strong focus on community engagement, each performance often includes post-show conversations to foster reflection and connection. The company believes in the power of art to build a more empathetic and just society. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language, Adult themes, violence including gender-based violence, portrayals of domestic violence, and descriptions of female genital mutilation, stories and scenes of femicide, missing women, victim blaming and revictimization, and descriptions of trauma and PTSD. Sensory warnings: sudden loud sounds (yelling), voluntary audience interaction, post-show discussion. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
When the system fails, Beth begins caring for her aging disabled mother. It seemed the right thing to do at the time. But an ill-intentioned social worker, an estranged sibling, a high maintenance cat - and the woman in the mirror - are now “writing” the story that is defining Beth’s life. Water People is a heartfelt expression of one woman’s struggle to provide her mother with a life of dignity while keeping her own dreams alive. Ellen Arrand is an award-winning playwright and published novelist. **** “a wonderfully delicate monologue that’s as engaging and compelling as it is lovingly layered… “Water People” dips into Dylan Thomas-like territory… it’s hard not to be captivated by the simplest details as we 'listen with the third ear, the ear of the heart' ”. Check the Program (Victoria) **** “an important show that pulls back the curtain on the realities of what happens to us all as we age” Edmonton Journal No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created/written by - Ellen Arrand About the Artist Ellen Arrand is a published novelist - Public Works; Private Souls (Beach Holme) & Hotel Abundancia (Ekstasis Editions), short story writer (various literary magazines), and Playwright – The Bridge, Bear Me Stiffly Up & Trutch Street Women (the latter two published by Ekstasis), and Water People. She studied playwriting during her Master of Fine Arts program (Guelph University) with Judith Thompson and Marilyn Bowering. Trutch Street Women was a finalist in the Canadian National Playwriting Competition (2005). Ellen’s plays have been produced both by Theatre Inconnu (Victoria). and Theatre One (Nanaimo) with Ellen performing in nearly all the productions. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
White Samosa is a spicy stand-up special from Vancouver’s first multilingual comedian, Harmeet Singh Kohli. Armed with accents and unapologetic punchlines, Harmeet takes aim at cultural appropriation, Uber-driving stereotypes, and everything in between. Expect chair-falling laughter as he serves up stories only a brown guy with a mic can tell. This is comedy that flips clichés, breaks barriers—and yes, delivers extra chutney. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - harmeet singh kohli About the Artist Harmeet Singh Kohli is Vancouver’s first multilingual stand-up comedian, performing in English, Punjabi, and Hindi. Born in India and raised on Bollywood, butter chicken, and big dreams, Harmeet blends cultural insight with sharp wit to challenge stereotypes and spark laughter. His comedy draws from real-life experiences as an immigrant, dad, and former rideshare driver. Whether riffing on racism or recreating awkward auntie encounters, Harmeet’s humor bridges communities. He’s performed across Canada and the U.S., leaving audiences in stitches—and a little smarter. White Samosa is his latest solo show, packed with punchlines and perspective. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
A very simple show with very simple rules. I'll do something for you (The Audience) And then? Then I'll do something for ME....hehehehe! One for you. One for me. Back and forth, all show long. OUTSTANDING NEW CREATION - OTTAWA FRINGE "Horrifyingly Funny." Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Leslie Cserepy About the Artist Leslie Cserepy is an actor, improviser, and bouffon from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Based in Ottawa, he’s performed in dozens of theatre productions including Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman, and Glengarry Glen Ross. On screen, he’s appeared in commercials for TD, McDonald's—even the M&M's. As an improviser, he’s played festivals in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto with troupes like CAFE AU LAIT and ROOOKIE PEPPS . He co-produces You've Been Warned: A Bouffon Cabaret in Toronto and debuted his first solo show 1ForUOne4Me at Ottawa Fringe 2024, winning “Outstanding New Creation.” Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes & language; sexual content; mature content; COVID19. Sensory warnings: Flashing lights; loud sudden sounds; allergens on stage; audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
20 Questions follows paranormal investigators Sasha and Harley, as they aim to discover the supernatural in the PNW. On their investigations, they meet a sassy harbinger of doom, who offers to play a game in exchange for keeping them from their 'horrible fate'. Will our savvy investigators learn enough about this frivolous spirit to save themselves? Come join our investigators as they journey through dangerous locales like caves, churches, and more! No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Hinox/Ty Wesley Stage Managing by - Addie Tonn Performed by - Mandi McLeod, Lexi Redman, Frankie Wilson About the Artist Hinox / Ty Wesley has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. While most of their theatre career has been as an actor, fey have had another of her scripts performed at Nanaimo Fringe 2020, 'Gender Sucks!' now 'Mad as in Angry' in an experimental live YouTube format. Currently, xey are also the founder and main Festival Director for Victoria RenFaire, with an aim to highlight Indigenous whimsy and joy. 20 Questions is one of aer favourite plays ve's written and is very excited to get share it with you this year! Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions of racialized violence; mentions of implied suicide. Sensory warnings: Strobe; flashing lights; intentional overstimulation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Have you ever wondered what happens to waste when you throw it away? Join Trash and Treasure as they welcome today’s recycling haul to the transfer station! A Waste of Stage Time is an interactive theatrical experience exploring waste, sustainability, and the value we bestow upon others. Learn about responsible waste management, participate in a live game show, and enjoy parody versions of hit karaoke songs (or, as we like to call it: Paradoke!) while Trash and Treasure learn how to better care for one another… No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Logan Swain & Sadie Fox About the Artist For 30 years, Theatre SKAM has created provocative theatre that inspires and challenges audiences in Victoria and beyond. Known for our sense of fun, we create theatre that is innovative, engaging, and above all, never boring. Artistic & Managing Director Logan Swain is a Métis artist and designer with a burning desire to make a difference in the world by telling stories that value truth and honesty while remaining playfully curious. Sadie Fox is a white, non-binary artist, founder of The Sustainable Fox, and passionate about making sustainability accessible and playful, especially when merging their passions for waste reduction and performance. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
What 'Merica Deplores EXPOSED Explores! 34x Award-Winning Fringe Producing Artist & Former Vice President of Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) Beth Marshall (Outstanding Individual Performance-Orlando Fringe 2025) headlines her true story Paducah Cheerleader with opening storyteller Bobby Wesley (Producer Award-Atlanta Fringe) Two coming of age stories from rural 'Merica. Hosted by JUICE The Trauma Clown. Featuring AUDIENCE anonymous confessions nightly. JOSIE NIXON is the visionary creator of EXPOSED Storytelling based in Denver Colorado. She brings storytellers together to share their truths exploring all areas of the human experience! "I was thinking about EXPOSED long after leaving the theatre. I loved it"-Analog Artist Digital World "Powerful Stuff"-Orlando Sentinel "Empathy-Eliciting Storytelling"- Orlando Weekly "JUICE is a superb MC"-Honor Conon (Denver) Credits Created by - Josie Nixon Written by - Beth Marshall, Josie Nixon, Bobby Wesley Directed by - Beth Marshall & Josie Nixon Produced by - Beth Marshall Presents & Exposed Storytelling Lighting Design by - Rowyn Sam Sound Design by - Blue Estrella Poncho Design by - Julianna Aberle-McClellan Promotional Design by - C-MAC The Art Wizard Projections by - Blue Estrella About the Artist BETH MARSHALL is a 34x Award-Winning Fringe Producing Artist, Former Vice President of Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals, Co-Founder of United States Association of Fringe Festivals and Former Producing Artistic Director of Orlando Fringe and has been CEO/Producing Artistic Director of Beth Marshall Presents for 16 years and mentors/ manages.coaches and consults with Artists/Festivals/Talent across the globe.She also writes, acts, directs and creates stained glass art with her hubby on the mountaintop in Colorado. She is Mama to all animals & wayward artists and is fiercely dedicated to Theatre for Social Change in all forms. BMP is committed to producing theatre that challenges our audiences, deeply explores the human condition a with a special focus on contemporary and newer works, original premieres, socio-political dramas, touring festival circuits and bridging the gap for emerging artists transitioning to professional theatre and manages 17 artists within the US & Canada. JOSIE NIXON: Michigan born and raised to be a good Christian boy, Josie changed course by pursuing passions more aligned with the fringes of our communities. After a goal to own restaurants, Josie fell into nonprofit work where their passion for the cause wasn't aligned with how board members believed status quo was upheld. In order to turn passion into change, Josie started EXPOSED storytelling in 2022 to make change how they best saw fit. Now Josie focuses on change for all communities who are willing and brave enough to step through the doors of their theater. With dozens of storytellers taking the stage and thousands of audience members embracing their community, Josie lifts the voices of anyone who believes their lives should be lived EXPOSED. JUICE THE TRAUMA Clown is the charming and sassy MC that weaves the evening of stories, audience confessions & collective human experiences together thru a Screed cursing the powers & failed structures of 'Merica. EXPOSED STORYTELLING: These are the stories of your community, of the people in your coffee shops, your neighborhoods, your friends and families, your partners. these are the stories that are long forgotten, forever whispered, and shielded from you until tonight. Our storytellers share with you what is really happening in the lives of those around us, what we carry with us, what has shaped the way we interact with the world and our community. we are connected when we share the stories of our lives. this is community healing. Join us. Together, we’ll create a space where the unspeakable is shared and the power of human connection is celebrated. BOBBY WESLEY: Orlando Story Club Co-Founder/Host/ Storyteller (BEST OF ORLANDO WEEKLY Multiple Award Winner) and solo Fringe touring Artist- (a)Political (Winner of Atlanta Fringe's Producer Award) is a writer, host, stand-up, marketing consultant and all around fabulous human. NICOLE ALTON: MOB BOSS/AKA Front of House/Show Manager and wrangler of all actors and liaison to technicians and audiences. Nicole manages EXPOSED in Denver while being on the road with us as well. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; violence; sexual content; mentions themes or depictions of interracial relations and contextual racialized language; stories of violence and abuse. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction & participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this smart and daring piece about a lovable hoser’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. He’s no “idiom,” and in a dynamic display of stupidity, Larry offers stand-up comedy and life-couching wisdom, before discovering something hidden deep within his psyche. Bob and Dog Mckenzie meets Feminism? Self-help meets headbanging? Gear Down, Big Rig, you might get sideways. “I don’t transcend in the theatre on a regular basis, but Larry opened me up and took me to a higher plane. Roberts’s clowning technique is first-rate — once she gets you laughing, she will not fucking let up.”- Colin Thomas Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Candy Roberts Directed by - Sonia Norris About the Artist Candy Roberts is a Canadian Performance artist and fifth-generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səlílwətaɬ(Tsleil- Waututh), and xwməθkwəyəm (Musqueam) territories, also known as Vancouver. Her original works encompass physical theatre, music, and clown to investigate the humour and heartbreak of our social and human conditions. She is a somatic practitioner and an avid researcher of CREATIVITY, and the including the connections between self-expression, mental health, and community. Candy tours internationally with her award-winning solo show; LARRY, a “daring, provocative and hilarious” gender-bending feminist comedy. She is also the artistic director of CANDY BONES THEATRE which devises and intensively tours innovative, immersive, and original theatre for families and young audiences. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; depictions or mentions of substance use. Sensory warnings: Strobe; flashing lights; haze. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
A hot-shot government communications director has twenty minutes to retrieve an embarrassing, career-ending invitation erroneously sent out in his name before the media or public find out about it. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - David Heyman Directed by - Francis Matheu About the Artist David Heyman has written several short plays for Fringe festivals in Edmonton, Vancouver and Nanaimo and now Victoria. They include "Digby & Glass" (Pick of the Fringe Nanaimo 2020), "The Great Might-Have-Been" (Pick of the Fringe Nanaimo 2021), and "Bathsheba And The Books" (Edmonton Fringe 2023). He's also shot three short films "Cutline," "Don't Ask," and the upcoming "Omer's Odyssey." He was a long-time political reporter for the Calgary Herald and also worked as a journalist in Quesnel and Prince George. He's currently a financial advisor for Edward Jones in Victoria. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
James Bay United Church
SITE A
Come support the Calgary Zoo/Wilder Institute in a brand new province-mandated enrichment initiative. As an advocate for those who are often not listened to, Zookeeper Chelsea has organized an open mic for the residents of the zoo. Through a variety of mediums including but not limited to standup, poetry, and song, the animals will discuss topics such as body image, aging, grief and loss, addiction, and belonging. Join them as they express the most vulnerable and honest parts of the human spirit in a uniquely animalistic way... An electric, emotional evening awaits! Credits Created by - Marlo Hepburn, Joseph McManus, Ciarán Volke About the Artist Comprised of Joseph McManus (director of the award-winning show Rat Academy), Ciarán Volke (half of award-winning comedy duo COWBOY), and Marlo Hepburn (owner of an award-winning heart). Sometime between the hours of 10 and 11pm on June 10th 2024, at the play structure on Kensington Close NW between 12th Street and 13th Street, Three Cheese was born out of an abundance of joy. Collectively, the three Cheeses have years of experience in theatre, improv, marching band, clown, dance, walking around, transcendence, amelioration, radical acceptance, and having a really good time. They do whatever. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
It’s 1997, the future. Snake Plisskin must clear his name, and if he feels like it, save Canada. The Canadian comedy hit of 2024 finally comes to Victoria! A visual feast with heart-pounding action sequences, uproarious physical comedy, and dynamic shadow puppets, "Escape From Victoria" is sure to be the action-comedy event of the summer. Rod Peter Jr. ("Kitt and Jane," "The War of 1812") teams up with Tamlynn Bryson ("Bedwetter," "(in)decision") to deliver a high-octane rollercoaster of entertainment. The dynamic duo masterfully pay tribute to genre films while infusing their own comedic twist that promises to leave audiences in stitches. This must-see event will leave you gasping for breath, wiping away tears of laughter, and relishing in the sheer joy of live theatre. “★★★★1/2” -Edmonton Journal “★★★★” -Winnipeg Free Press WINNER - Jury’s Choice Award & Most Athletic Performance - Ottawa Fringe 2024 SOLD OUT RUN - Ottawa Fringe 2024 “An action-packed, campy, rollercoaster ride of a show.” -Parton and Pearl Toronto “...ball-bustingly hilarious…I don’t remember the last time I laughed that hard” -Next Magazine Toronto “A show that so clearly has a love for theatre and the Fringe ingrained in it. It succeeds in kicking some serious ass.” -Intermission Magazine “A narrative that is as hilarious as it is thought-provoking” -APT613 Ottawa “The 1997 soundtrack is A+” -MyEntertainmentWorld Toronto “A smart and deeply silly low-budget action movie onstage” -Sesaya Arts Magazine Toronto “This side-splitting satire will leave you laughing long after the production’s finished” -A View From the Box Toronto Credits Created by - Tamlynn Bryson and Rod Peter Jr. Dramaturgy by - Andrew Young Costume and Puppet Design by - Sarah Wilson About the Artist Rod Peter Jr. and Tamlynn Bryson join forces to create a hilarious and electric duo in "Escape From Victoria." Tamlynn made her Fringe debut at the 2015 Ottawa Fringe and has been touring her solo shows ("Bedwetter", "(in)decision") to festivals ever since. Celebrated for her impeccable comic timing and magnetic stage presence, Bryson seamlessly slips into the role of Snake Plisskin. Rod ("Kitt and Jane", "The War of 1812") has been a staple of Fringe festivals for over 20 years. He compliments Bryson’s performance with his unique comedic flair, dynamic physicality, and a comprehensive knowledge of genre films. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; sexual content; adult themes; violence. Sensory warnings: Flashing lights; loud sudden sounds; limited audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
Meet Evie and Alfie — a retired, quintessentially British couple — as they potter around their house, drinking tea, bird spotting and reminiscing. From multiple award-winning Fringe legends Alex Dallas (Horseface, Sensible Footwear) and Jimmy Hogg (The Potato King) comes a comedy full of wit, verve and heart. Credits Written by - Alex Dallas & Jimmy Hogg Directed by - James Gangl About the Artist Alex Dallas is a writer, actor and performer from London, England. As a founder member of female comedy troupe, Sensible Footwear, she has toured the world and performed at the most prestigious festivals and theatres, including the Edinburgh Fringe, the Adelaide Fringe, the Glastonbury Festival and the Canadian Fringe and Comedy Festival circuit, as well as Just For Laughs. Her one woman shows, Goddess, and Drama Queen, aired on CBC TV, The W Network, Bravo TV and CBC Radio. Horseface, her most recent show won Best Solo Performance at the Ottawa Fringe 2024. Jimmy Hogg is a writer, comedian and storyteller who has made his name on the Fringe circuit over the last 20-years with his high-energy, physical, tangential style. Shows include Curriculum Vitae, Figgy Pudding, Like A Virgin, and The Potato King. In 2017 and 2018 A Brief History of Petty Crime SOLD OUT at the legendary Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Comparisons to Eddie Izzard, Rik Mayall, and John Oliver (and other British people) are frequent if not always accurate or deserved. He has numerous awards and merits and is a 12x BEST OF FRINGE WINNER. James Gangl won the Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship and a Canadian Comedy Award for Best One Person Show for his first solo show, Sex, Religion & Other Hang-ups. James has since written four solo shows and his work has been heldover at The Edmonton Fringe Festival, featured at Intrepid Theatre’s UNO Fest in Victoria and at the United Solo Festival in New York City. James is a Moth storyslam winner and performed at the Moth Grand Slam in Los Angeles. James currently teaches at the legendary Second City in Toronto. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Struggling with your finances? Fearing falling behind? Join Matthew, a bright-eyed white collar associate as he discovers that your financial shortcomings may not be a YOU problem. They're an US problem. *Warning - not actual financial planning advice. Credits Created by - Ian Simms About the Artist Ian Simms is a graduate of the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre program (2014). The creator's of previous Fringe shows "The Problem with Facebook" and "The Stephen Harper Play", he enjoys creating one-act plays on social commentary. You may have seen performing in community productions around town, including Bema's "Visiting Mr. Green" in late 2022. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
Compared to erotic games in the village bath and shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, refugee life is beyond boring. So Ukrainian Baba (grandma) is brewing up Old Country mayhem. Between magical encounters with Nature spirits and hilarious dating advice---“Grab both his ears, or you’ll be sorry!”---she confesses to ending both Nazis and an abusive husband with common kitchen items. In a rollicking monologue as dark and playful as the Slavic soul, Baba will lead you into the goddess-centred culture of Eastern Europe’s Indigenous people. Enjoy a raunchy Cossack song or two, a lesson in How to Complain Like a Ukrainian, and a chilling traditional curse for Putin, “May you be kicked by a duck!” Baba entertainingly relives ancient shamanic practices that sparked the original werewolf legend. Oral history is supplemented by Raisa’s diligent academic research into the work of neolithic anthropologists, and the records of Herodotus and Hippocrates. The latter described Ukraine’s Amazon warriors as bowlegged and smelling of horse, to which Baba responds, “What is problem here?” She mocks MAGA with a fierceness that can only come from the proud Ukrainian intellects that developed x rays, immunology, helicopters, and the first European democratic constitution. Not to mention "Fight Club" and "Heart of Darkness." She has been avidly pursued by Chuck Palahniuk for the details of her cowgirl adventures. Raisa spent decades collecting stories from survivors of Soviet and Holocaust terror, including her family. Baba is a composite of these invincible souls. Her interpretations are for the main part true, deepened by the complexity of her intersecting Ukrainian and Jewish roots. Her humorous cultural history book, “Baba’s Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food” has been a bestseller for ten years. It will be available at shows along with its follow up, plus hand beaded jewelry. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress specially selected this book as representative of the immigrant experience. It is also available at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada. Deeply spiritual and satirical at once, Baba’s monologue and newest book relate her Halloween cemetery vigil in one of Canada’s secret gulags, a subarctic Slavic internment and slavery camp. “I sat on the highway built by my own people, weeping. My little car rocked with each passing truck. The miserable graveyard beside the railroad tracks was inaccessible, its signage marred by a lurid yellow motel billboard. I finally tossed the sheaf of wheat I’d brought for the ancestors, into the adjoining ditch, knowing they’d understand. Maybe some kernels will sprout and form their own memorial.” Baba would like to offer complimentary tickets to the creative partners swept up in her Victoria adventures: the Beaver Lake scuba diver whose air tank she mistook for a floating cooler while skinny dipping (she wasn’t trying to kill you; she just wanted a sandwich), and the Brad Pitt lookalike who drove her to the Elk Lake vet with an injured duck (sorry for the poop on your seatbelt). In the heat of the moment, she never learned your names. And what is a Poopchik, anyway? Oi yoi yoi! No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created/written/produced by - Raisa Stone About the Artist Raisa Stone began performing as a toddler Houdini, escaping cribs on Sears commercials. She was a protégé of Ralph Cole (The Nylons). Her Baba stories were mentored by Lina de Guevara, and her comedy by Steve Allen, who placed her book in the Los Angeles Public Library. She is a Canada Council for the Arts designated professional in five categories. A Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir alumna who has won New York City Opera and Banff Centre scholarships, Raisa is an environmental and animal advocate. She led the campaign to preserve Fernwood’s urban forest, trained her street-rescued Borys as Canada’s first service rabbit, and persuaded her MP to table her horse anti-slaughter petition slaughter. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; violence; sexual content; descriptions of war, internment & labour camps; mentions of sexualized & racialized violence; mentions of murder & suicide. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds; audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Dahlia is a little girl trying to find her voice. In a world where everyone gets a guardian angel, she finds herself with a feral demon named Phoenix HellFire who shows her how to cope with life's bullshit through the art of drag. With the guidance of her demon Dahlia goes on a journey confronting her queer identity and female rage. In a world that wants little girls to behave Phoenix encourages Dahlia to violently celebrate her freakiest, feral and most authentic self. Credits Created/written by - Dahlia-Raphael Performed by - Dahlia-Raphael Artistic Producer - Natalie Peters Stage Manager - Alivia Sabatino Movement Advisor - Isabella Buonaiuto About the Artist Dahlia-Raphael (Creator/ Performer) Dahlia-Raphael is a non-binary queer performing artist and soon-to-be graduate of UBC’s BFA in acting program. They are the recipient of a Centennial Scholars award, a graduate of Douglas College's acting program and a partner of StoryFreak Commedia Collective. They have performed in theatre shows, indie films, commercials, and in drag as Phoenix HellFire. They are a multidisciplinary artist and a lover of physical theatre, movement, dance, flow arts, and drag. They are a silly little freak creating authentic, soul-filled performances that make people feel alive and believe art can help us heal through life's most uncomfortable truths. They dare you to find your joy again. Isabella Buonaiuto (Movement Advisor) Isabella Buonaiuto is an interdisciplinary artist based on the land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As a performer, they have recently worked on The Last of the Pelican Daughters (Fay Nass) and TomorrowLove (Ming Hudson). Their artistic interest lies in exploring how embodiment, movement, and devised creation can be utilized as a tool for collective change and community engagement. Alivia Sabatino (Stage Manager) Alivia Sabatino (she/they) is a Vancouver-based artist. Recent performance credits include Storm in The Last of the Pelican Daughters, John Heminges in The Very Book Indeed, and Celio in For the Love of Citrus: A Commedia Dell’arte—all with UBC Theatre. Most recently, they served as Assistant Stage Manager for Western Gold’s 2025 production of Here We Go. Liv is also a partner in StoryFreak Collective, creating Commedia-inspired stories that explore youth and identity. They’re thrilled to be part of the Phoenix Hellfire team at Victoria Fringe! Natalie Peters (Artistic Producer) Natalie Peters (she/they/he) is a devoted performer, director, producer, and poet. They obtained a diploma in Language, Literature, and Performing Arts from Douglas College, and further ventured into Decrouxian mime (L’ecole Omnibus, Montreal) and Pachinko clown (Fantastic Space Enterprises, Vancouver). Their performances and poetry are a harmonious blend of creativity and unwavering passion for the arts, characterised by a showcase of mindful vulnerability. As a producer, they are dedicated to making the dreams of their fellow artists come to life, guided by their values of communication, integrity, honesty, and perseverance. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; mentions of suicidal thoughts, mentions of substance use; stripping to undergarments. Sensory warnings: Strobe; loud sudden sounds; audience participation/interaction; fake gore; allergens on stage. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
From crowded streets of North India to quiet Canadian winters, I AM OK follows unpredictable journey through culture shocks, silent struggles and unexpected joys. With humour and hears it captures beautiful chaos of starting over and the strange way life says, “you’re ok.” Credits Created/written by - Amit Solanki About the Artist My name is Amit Solanki, originally from India, Canada (I live in Victoria) is now home. I started my standup comedy in Montreal and have performed in all the major cities in Canada. I was featured on the CBC’s North by Northwest by Sheryl McKay, for my one man yoga comedy show “Spiritualarious “ produced at Edmonton Fringe Festival 2024, Victoria Fringe Festival in 2017, 2022, 2024. Also, at Nanaimo Fringe Festival in August 2023. I like to find the funny in silly and compare it with events of my life from different cultures. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Step into a world of music, movement, and emotion with The Joan Bessie Cabaret—a soul-stirring collaboration between The Joan Bessie Duo and four dynamic dancers. Known for their groove-driven, harmony-rich sound, The Joan Bessie Duo delivers an original live music experience that’s both intimate and powerful. In this Fringe-exclusive cabaret, their evocative songs come to life through contemporary choreography by Nicole Bennett, Laura Bartlett, and Amanda Zink—each bringing a unique voice and vision to the stage. Together, these artists weave a rich tapestry of sound and movement, exploring connection, release, and the cathartic power of letting go. Through lush vocals, raw lyrics, and striking expression, The Joan Bessie Cabaret invites audiences to feel deeply, move freely, and reflect on the beauty and struggle of the human experience. Whether you're drawn to live music, contemporary dance, or simply seeking something fresh and heartfelt at this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, this performance promises to leave a lasting impression. Come for the music. Stay for the movement. Leave feeling a little more alive. Embrace the vibe. Move to the music. Feel the release. This is The Joan Bessie Cabaret. Credits Created/written by - Jessica Beach About the Artist Critically acclaimed, chart-topping artist, Joan Bessie brings her original music and diverse songwriting to the 2025 Victoria Fringe festival. After her CBC Top 20 hit, “G.G.", followed by “I Ride Alone” and “Dark Voices” both spending 12 weeks on the Canadian Indie Country Chart, Joan Bessie has just announced the release of her latest collaboration with award-winning Producer, Ryan Dahle, “In Your Mind” - a floating groove that nods to classic Motown. Joan Bessie Music is genre-bending and manages to feel both fresh and familiar. The songs are addictive and the vibe at live shows is inclusive, friendly and safe. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
Juicy Woo-Woo! – the UFO Cabaret – features funky saxman and high-octane action poet John Sobol in a dazzling one-man show that offers a cogent and mind-expanding recap of the latest stunning developments in the weird and wild realm of UFOs. Curious about those so-called drones buzzing nuclear bases in New Jersey last year? Or maybe you’ve seen a UFO yourself? Or perhaps you’re an enthusiastic skeptic looking for something to debunk? If you’re any of the above, or if you're just looking a good time that includes killer sax playing, inspiring wordplay and weird tales of the unexplained, Juicy Woo-Woo! is the UFO cabaret for you. Reviews of John Sobol’s last fringe show, Two Million Years of Technology: “In the expansive world of the Edmonton Fringe, there isn’t a known category for John Sobol. 2 Million Years of Technology…is a tirelessly smart and rigorous blend of performance poetry, history, lecture and political speech — with a jazz intro. 4 STARS” Edmonton Journal “Sobol wields the English tongue like his saxophone, coaxing exotic, melodious and profoundly poetic combinations of words into the air…Sometimes he’s a storyteller, sometimes he’s a philosopher, sometimes he’s a beat poet or an a cappella singer, and sometimes he’s simply this really interesting and intelligent guy having a chinwag with us, his audience friends. 4 STARS” Edmonton Sun Learn more about John Sobol at: www.youareyourmedia.org Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - John Sobol About the Artist Since releasing his first album Blue History in 1991, Sobol's fusion of ear-popping poetics and funky horn has been thrilling audiences across Canada and around the world. SELECTED APPEARANCES Bluesfest (Ottawa) • St Mark's Poetry Project (NYC) • Banff Centre for the Arts • Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) • National Poetry Slam (San Francisco) • Roxy (Prague) • Big Mouth (London, UK) • Little Theatre (Calgary) • Edmonton Fringe Festival • Montreal International Jazz Festival • Vancouver Folk Festival • Vancouver Jazz Festival • Hard Rock Café (Orlando) “Sobol wields the English tongue like his saxophone, coaxing exotic, melodious and profoundly poetic combinations of words into the air. 4 STARS" Edmonton Sun Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Stuck in an endless loop of turning a dagger on herself, Juliet breaks out of her tragedy in search of a reason for her tragic demise. On the way, Juliet recruits a team of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters to find out why they’ve been forced to die. Can they alter their fate or are they doomed to play out the same tragic tales for the rest of eternity? “Award-winning evisceration of Shakespeare’s Verona Tragedy” -Orlando Weekly “…hilarious simply because it’s so audacious and unexpected.” -Colin Thomas “…an example of the new heights that can be achieved when we rethink tropes as old as time.” -Winnipeg Free Press ★★★★★ “…a delightful tale that’s equal parts feminist critique, Renaissance romp and bravura acting display…not to be missed.” -NOW Toronto NNNN (out of 4) Credits Written by – Pippa Mackie and Ryan Gladstone Original Score by – Drew Jurecka Directed by – Ryan Gladstone Lightning Design by – Jon Paterson Costume Design by – Nita Bowerman Performed by: Lili Beaudoin as Juliet Ryan Gladstone as Shakespeare Carly Pokoradi as Everyone Else Accessibility Content warnings: Adult language, sexual content, depictions or mentions of cartoonish violence, discussion of suicide. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation. About the Artist Monster Theatre Monster Theatre was founded in 2000. Our first play was Fairy Tale: A Choose Your Own Adventure Play, an improvised street theatre show that toured the Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Victoria Fringe Festivals. Our second play The Canada Show: The Complete History of Canada in One toured across the country numerous times winning countless awards. We have developed over 40 original productions for adult and young audiences always with our signature irreverent twist on history and mythology. Plays for young audiences include The Big Rock Show: The Complete History of the World, Mini Masterpieces, The Little Prince, Shakespeare’s Dream, We Now Know: The Complete History of Science and Crisis on Planet Z! Plays for adults include Juliet: A Revenge Comedy, War and Peace, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, No Tweed Too Tight, Assassinating Thomson, Hockey Night at the Puck and Pickle, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, The Shakespeare Show, The Macbeth Show and many, many more. Monster Theatre has become one of Canada’s premiere independent touring theatre companies. Lili Beaudoin – Performer (Juliet) Based out of Vancouver, Lili is an actor, Improvisor and voice artist. Some of her notable theatre credits include Marie in The Nutcracker at Caravan Farm Theatre, Claudia in I, Claudia at The Arts Club, Mimi/scenographer in Blind Date, Brigid Blake in The Humans at Theatre Calgary, Gracie in Gracie at ATP & Belfry and Miranda in The Tempest at Bard on the Beach. Elsewhere Lili’s voice can be heard in several animated shows such as Beat Bugs, Littlest Pet Shop, Rainbow Ruby, Max Steel and My Little Pony. If you’d like to see her do some improv you can catch Lili most weekends at Vancouver’s Tightrope Impro Theatre strutting her stuff on stage and pretending she knows what she’s talking about. Lili is the honoured recipient of the Anthony Holland Scholarship for Outstanding Ability and Dedication as well as a Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Performance by a lead Actress in a Drama. Carly Pokoradi – Performer (Everyone else) Carly is a collaborative creator, multidisciplinary artist, clown, and scrap collector who trusts her goosebumps. As a theatre-maker, Carly has worked in various capacities with Theatre Replacement, Caravan Farm Theatre, The Chop, and Hardline Productions and has toured the country with sold-out runs on the Canadian Fringe Circuit. Carly is an artistic associate with Monster Theatre, an improviser with Blind Tiger Comedy, a Jessie Richardson Award nominee, and a graduate of Studio 58. As artist-in-residence with the incredible @hammockresidency, she recently showed her textile art at the James Black Gallery in so-called Vancouver. Currently, she is studying to become an ASL-English interpreter and relishing every minute. In her spare time, she sews messily, sleeps deeply, and laughs loudly. Ryan Gladstone – Playwright/Director/Performer (Shakespeare) Ryan currently lives and works in Vancouver as an actor, producer, director, playwright and improvisor. Ryan holds an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Acting, he also spent ten years studying Improvisation Loose Moose Theatre under Keith Johnstone. Ryan is the founder and Artistic Director of Monster Theatre (www.monstertheatre.com) where he has co-created over 25 original plays. Selected writing/directing credits include: Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, The Shakespeare Show, and The Canada Show (Monster Theatre). Selected directing credits include: Hell of a Girl (revolver Festival), Hunter Gatherers (Staircase Theatre), Ubu Roi (UBC). Ryan has six one-person plays including War and Peace, No Tweed Too Tight, Every Story Ever Told, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, Napoleon’s Secret Diary and Confessions of a Class Clown. Pippa Mackie – Playwright Pippa Mackie is an award-winning actor, playwright, and producer. Her work has been performed on stages and at festivals across North America. Most notable credits include The Progressive Polygamists co-written/performed with Emmelia Gordon, which toured across Canada for many years including the Just For Laughs Festival. Her one-act play Starman, which was originally commissioned and produced as part of Upintheair Theatre’s The Array, was adapted into an audio drama as part of Sound the Alarm Theatre’s podcast series in 2021 and received 3 Berlin Film Haus nominations including Best Scriptwriting and Best Podcast. She is also the co-writer of a mockumentary comedy podcast titled Philippa Po: Changing Minds with Ryan Gladstone produced by Sound the Alarm Theatre. Her most recent play Hurricane Mona was co-produced by Touchstone Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre and received its World Premiere production in November 2023. Hurricane Mona was created as part of the Arts Club Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Unit, was awarded Touchstone Theatre’s David King Prize for Comedy in 2022 and Pippa was a participant of the 2023 Banff Playwrights Unit. Pippa is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Drew Jurecka – Original Score Drew Jurecka is a Toronto-based violinist/vocalist who is comfortable in many genres. Trained classically at the Cleveland Institute of Music, during his final year Drew played a solo with the great Dave Brubeck and his quartet at Severance Hall. While at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, a summer program for jazz and aspiring studio musicians, Drew had the opportunity to play at the Hollywood Bowl with Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, and Shirley Horn. Drew has played, written or arranged on more than 150 records, including several JUNO-winning and Grammy-nominated albums. He can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks. Drew has toured internationally as a sideman and with his own projects. He spent five years on the road with Jeff Healey and now plays as part of Jill Barber’s regular band. He is a faculty member at Humber College where he has helped to develop a unique jazz strings program that includes technique classes, ensembles and private lessons. Jon Paterson – Lighting Designer/Stage Manager Jon has been an active member of the Canadian theatre community for the past 25 years and has performed in numerous theatres and festivals including the Centaur Theatre and Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal), Canoe Theatre Festival, Workshop West and Mayfield Theatre (Edmonton), Rogue Festival (California), Living Arts Centre (Mississauga), Vertigo Mystery Theatre (Calgary), the Winnipeg Improv Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. Jon received his training at MacEwan University, where he studied both theatre arts and production. He has also trained with master clown Mike Kennard (Mump & Smoot) and has honed his improv skills at Second City Toronto. Nita Bowerman – Costume Designer Nita Bowerman is a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, mixing the mediums of dance, acting, media art and costume design. Her self-created real time performances are often hybrid works mixing live action with digital content. Her creation and collaboration credits include performing in live and live digital spaces, generating visual content for short art videos and live plays, and making wearable art works and costumes. She has worked with various local theatre companies in a variety of capacities and has performed and screened diy digital video works locally and internationally. Art is the medium through which Nita processes existing. She is an experimenter of form and designer of content, creating works for stage and screen. Thanks Monster Theatre for inviting me to have fun and play! Nita is a graduate of SFU School for Contemporary Arts.
Metro Studio
Metro Studio
"Kin" is an original musical based on the story of Rapunzel. When she learns she isn't who she thought she is, Rapunzel travels down into the magical forest below her tower to find her name. Meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way, this dark and dreamy musical is sure to inspire. A deeply emotional musical journey with unexpected twists and turns. Can't wait to see it again!" - Kurt Archer, Festival Director, Victoria One Act Play Festival Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Lyrics and melodies by Andrew Sawyer Piano by Leif Bradshaw Guitar by Benjamin LeClaire Drums by Dustin Roy Singing by Anton Sokalski, Lauren Steinmann, Samsara Grace and Pollen Conway Design by Beanie Cannataro, Jaden Sokalski and Ashleigh Grace Lane About the Artist Becoming Theater is an experimental theater company based in Victoria, BC. Our work is inspired by the Sanskrit word "Lila" meaning "divine play"; "creation, instead of being an objective for achieving any purpose, is rather an outcome of the playful nature of the divine." Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions, themes, or depictions of substance abuse. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Little Fernwood
SITE D
Winner of "Best Ensemble" and "Best Dramedy" at Victoria Fringe 2024, Alectoria Productions presents "Origins of the Coast"; an interactive site specific whimsical show blending puppetry, grief and environmental fantasy at Macaulay Point Park. Through fleeting moments of dance, exploration, and games that the audience can interact with, "Origins of the Coast" is a wonderful mix of hope, resilience, beauty and fear. What's in the hidden shrubbery? What do you see when you look under that log? What do you hear when you look up? You'll discover the answers as you walk through the beautiful backdrop of Macaulay Point Park. In raw, quiet moments, the creatures and audience at the Point search for one another—unaware that every step, every choice, draws them closer, shaping the story that binds them all. Credits Created by - Alectoria Productions About the Artist Alectoria Productions hopes to bring purposeful theatre to life in utterly immersive site specific performances. The implication of the audience, witnesses, in a story, allows them to explore the concept and solve hypothetical situations in an environment where the stakes are ultimately none, but the feeling presents real. We aim to invoke desire, passion and vulnerability in our performances, whether in a castle, lighthouse, garden, or on a boat! Accessibility Content warnings: Adult themes of grief. Sensory warnings: Potential allergens; outdoor performance, environmental allergies. Optional audience participation, shared public space. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Macauley Point Park
SITE B
Three recent graduates of UVic's Phoenix Theatre: Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power ('The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee', and 'Twelfth Night') are looking to entertain you at this year's Victoria Fringe Festival with 'Outstanding!'- a brand new comedic showcase that features everything you've ever wanted to see onstage. Amaze at the performers, who, in the past, the Times Colonist said, "delivered standout performances", "have oodles of talent", and are "also notable". Watch dreams come into conflict with reality as this show-stopping trio attempts to get through their onstage bucket list before the big leagues. Intrepid's Metro Studio has surely never seen an act so breathtakingly desperate for your attention. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power Produced by - Jack Storwick, Samantha Frew, and Chiara Power in collaboration with Ballen Works Sound Design by - Jack Storwick Costume Design by - Samantha Frew Set Design by - Carter Lapham and Avery Przyswitt About the Artist The Outstanding! trio consists of three recent graduates of UVic's Phoenix Theatre- Chiara Power, Samantha Frew, and Jack Storwick. They are honoured to be living, learning, listening, and gathering inspiration on unceded Lək̓ ʷəŋən territory. This show was developed in Victoria, BC, with the help of a shared Google document, caffeine, and a dream. As such, the trio also gives thanks to their producer, Ballenworks- a local theatre company based on Lək̓ ʷəŋən territory. Its mission is to focus on the creation of new works, with an emphasis on highlighting and presenting emerging voices in our community. Chiara Power: Mexican-born, American-raised, Chiara Power is a recent grad of UVic’s Phoenix Theatre and has been performing since she was 7. Though her first love is Musical Theatre, Chiara’s love for theatre extends to straight plays, comedies, Shakespeare, and beyond. While performing was her first love, she is also an accomplished teacher, youth mentor, and choreographer. She was most recently onstage as Olivia in Twelfth Night, Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and 100 Years of Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre. Samantha Frew: Born and bred in Newfoundland, Samantha Frew is an east-coast kid in the wild west. A recent graduate of UVic’s Phoenix Theatre, Frew’s latest public performance was as Malvolia in "Twelfth Night", and her other credits include "The Hot L Baltimore" (The Girl), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Cecily), and "Spring Awakening" (Ilse). While acting is her first love, Samantha has worn- and continues to wear- many wonderful hats, including director/assistant director, writer, teacher, choreographer, designer, and visual artist. Jack Storwick: Jack is a Performer / Sound Designer who recently completed his undergraduate degree (BFA Theatre, Minor in Music) at UVic. Past Performance credits include: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" (VP Panch), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Algernon), "Spring Awakening" (Melchior), (Phoenix Theatre). Sound Design: "Twelfth Night", "The Killing Game", "The Hot L Baltimore" (Phoenix Theatre), "The Shop Around the Corner" (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Sound Design / Foley), "Litigation Racket" (Victoria One Act Festival), "A Stranger Remains" (SATCo, Composition). Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; comedic violence. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds; audience interaction. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
From the nightmarish visions of an outcast Latina comes this surreal collection of short vignettes blended together with a whimsical and eerie flavor. Through objects, physical theater, clowning, and more, audiences are welcome to be submerged into this visual nonsense world inspired by tales, music videos, horror films, and garbage. It's ok to be confused. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Lore Andrea Produced by - Plastik Theatrik Assistant Producer and Creative - Regina Rios About the Artist Plastik Theatrik is the artistic persona of Lore Andrea, with whom she can make her surrealist obsessions come true. A Chilean artist graduated from Club de Teatro and trained in Commedia dell’arte, puppetry, bouffon, clown, and mask. She attended the École Philippe Gaulier and Mask Intensive in Spain thanks to the BC Arts Council. She has created short shows for cabarets and peep shows around town. Her collaborations include Wonderheads, Atomic Vaudeville, SNAFU, SKAM, Impulse, and Gay4Nature (directed Coffee Cantata!). Part of the motor of her creation is garbage, magic, tenderness, and the grotesque. Lore is an ambassador for the BC Culture Days. Regina Rios, a Mexican actor, singer, creator, and producer, graduated from the Canadian College of Performing Arts and with a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Capilano University. Regina has worked with multiple local theatre companies and filmmakers on Vancouver Island. Her piece "A distancia" was shown at SKAMpede 2021 and at Uno Fest from Intrepid Theatre. Regina loves creating new work that pushes boundaries and speaks about her unique immigrant experience and her multicultural identity. Anna Bigland-Pritchard, a creator, connector, and multi-genre singer and musician whose creative practice resides at the intersection of climate, queerness, and community-building. Anna has a Bachelor of Music from Canadian Mennonite University and a Diploma in Performance from the University of Manitoba. She is co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective, an indie opera collective that explores ecology, queerness, and hope through film, workshops, and live performances. Anna also performs musical theatre, jazz, vocal looping/improv, and her own indie-folk music. Michael Bell, a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Born and raised in a settler family on W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territory, he is a multidisciplinary performer seen most recently in Atomic Vaudeville’s spring cabaret. Other recent credits include The Shop Around the Corner and Wind in the Willows (Blue Bridge Theatre), Crone-o-phobia (Atomic Vaudeville), and Under the Bridge (ABC/Quinn Shepard). Accessibility Content warnings: Metaphorical depictions of suicide, death & violence; depictions of animal cock fights. Sensory warnings: Haze. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
This compelling, solo story-telling play transports audiences to the rural villages of Sierra Leone, West Africa in the late 1970s where Nancy worked as a community health nurse for five years. Nancy’s journey is both poignant and humorous. With the patience of local mentors, Nancy adjusted to life and the field-work realities of delivering preventive maternal and child health services. The play is filled with stories about initially blundered and then inspired encounters with village chiefs, traditional birth attendants, and subsistence farmers. Village experiences rattled Nancy’s cultural preconceptions, provoked her notions of social privilege, and forever deepened her global connections. Nancy’s heart-warming and heart-breaking stories about public health work in the villages make audiences laugh and cry. This new play is full of humanity. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - Nancy Edwards About the Artist Rethinking Good Intentions is largely based on my memoir (released by Friesen Press in 2022). My love of theatre and my respect for the oral traditions of the Mende people of Sierra Leone inspired me to write this play. In my retirement from academia, I've turned to stories that connect with hearts and minds. My artistic goal is to bridge cultural divides and explore the bonds of our common humanity through story-telling. I'm thrilled to be the solo performer of my first play. Thanks to those who have provided guidance on my journey of life, public health work, and writing. Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions of sensitive topics including slavery and maternal and newborn deaths. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Join pop star Rayna at the listening party for her new album SEX GODDESS! Performed and written by award winning composer, Riel Reddick-Stevens, produced by House and Body; SEX GODDESS is a solo theatrical mixtape that follows Rayna, at the listening party for her new album. While sharing her album, Rayna takes her audience on the journey of one long, wild night that changed her life and perspective forever. SEX GODDESS uses Hip Hop/ R&B music, comedy and heightened storytelling to explore the relationships between power, bodily autonomy and sense of self in a patriarchal world and business. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Created by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Written by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Produced by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Sound Design by - Riel Reddick-Stevens Music Produced by - Ghostboyrj Artistic support and SM by - Jasmine Case Dramaturg/Outside Eye by - Christopher Manousos About the Artist Riel Reddick-Stevens (she/her) is an award winning multidisciplinary creator. She is a graduate of Randolph College and National theatre school of canada, with training in acting and musical theatre. This training has allowed her to develop a practice of connecting to and creating from the body’s memories and experiences. Riel is deeply interested in creating theatre that is accessible to people who have traditionally been withheld from the theatre world, and seeks ways to bring new voices to the art form. Through sound, she currently does this by highlighting natural sounds and mixing them with choral voice and beat production. CHRISTOPHER MANOUSOS Christopher Manousos (they/he) is a theatre director, dramaturg, and arts leader. Christopher is an Artistic Associate and the Assistant to the Artistic Director at Crow’s Theatre and the Artistic Director of House + Body. With House + Body, they explore contemporary reimaginings of classical works, develop new plays, and offer training and mentorship to artists, playwrights and performers. Christopher is an alumnus of the Stratford Festival’s Michael Langham Director’s Workshop and the Shaw Festival’s Neil Munro Intern Directors Program. Christopher has extensively trained in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and Viewpoints with Anne Bogart, SITI Company, and Tadashi Suzuki in New York and Japan. As an educator, Christopher has taught and directed productions at The University of Windsor, Randolph, Sheridan College and the Stratford Festival’s Shakespeare Intensive. UPCOMING: Christopher will be directing The Surrogate as part of Crow’s Theatre’s 25.26 season. Ghostboyrj (He/him), born in Toronto and raised in Brampton, started his music journey at 12 with multiple instruments. His love for poetry and hip-hop inspired him to create music after being introduced to his love for Hip-Hop, where he learned more about the culture. Ghostboyrj combines modern boom bap production styles, soulful melodies, and fun jazzy grooves to create a unique and alternative sound within the ever-evolving hip-hop scene. Pronouns: She/Her. Hometown/Current Town: Toronto. Jasmine is a Jamaican Canadian actor born and raised in Toronto where she currently lives and works. She is a recent Dora Award winner for her role as Phoebe in Truth at Young Peoples Theatre and has most recently appeared as Sidney Brown in FLEX with Crow’s and Obsidian Theatre. As well as Robin in This Feels Like The End; Toronto Fringe, Kara in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner; Obsidian and Crow’s Theatre and Lucy in The Fiancée; Chemainus Theatre Festival . Upcoming Projects: Clyde's at Canadian Stage!. Education/Training: National Theatre School of Canada 2023, Brock University 2020. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; mentions, themes, or depictions of sexualized violence and substance abuse. Sensory warnings: Loud sudden sounds. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Space Queen is a one-person sci-fi drag musical created and performed by queer artist Aaron Nickol (aka Shelita Cox) and produced by Drag Sunday Productions. Blending original synth-based music, spoken word, and theatrical performance, the show imagines a distant future where queer stories have been erased—and one performer dares to bring them back. Through live vocals, narrative world-building, and embodied resistance, Space Queen explores queer survival, ancestral memory, and the radical power of claiming space. Ideal for audiences drawn to queer theatre, drag artistry, futurist performance, and LGBTQ+ storytelling, this is a musical about what it means to remember—and what happens when the erased return to speak. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Aaron Nickol / Shelita Cox About the Artist What happens when the heroes you needed were erased from the story? Space Queen is a one-person sci-fi drag musical, created and performed by Aaron Nickol / Shelita Cox. A synth-laced exploration of queer futures, lost histories, and the power of performance as resistance. Blending song, story, and sequins into a cosmic cabaret, Space Queen is about survival, memory, and the right to take up space. Accessibility Content warnings: Mentions, themes, and depictions of queerphobia and systematic oppression. Sensory warnings: Haze & soundscape throughout; loud sudden sounds. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Danver, playwright and loner, realizes he has questions he never knew he had. Where does someone go for ideas or help? And truth? He is not ready for the answer. Shade Apparel is about wanting to know more and not knowing where to find anything. No latecomers. Credits Created by - Alan Segal Written by - Alan Segal Directed by - Francis G Matheu Produced by - Alan Segal Lighting Design by - Luke Weston Sound Design by - Phil Letourneau Set Design by - Francis G Matheu Performed by - Dan Landry, Nolan Fidyk, Kendra Bidwell About the Artist Imbroglio Theatre was founded by Alan Segal. Under the Imbroglio name, Alan premiered his play, Frey's Anguish, in Victoria in 2014. He is also an author, a documentarian, and a former sociology professor and cable TV host. These different zones of work and interest have taken him to many countries. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Schedule correction: the performance of this show on Aug. 31st is at 1pm. Three improvisers are pushed to their limits by undergoing gruelling physical challenges as they attempt to find the plot. Shock collars, floors of lego, and spicy foods mean there is only one certainty: That’s Gonna Leave a Mark. Join us for this one of a kind Stanford improv experiment. We'll be there. Will you? Produced by Timetheft and Heliopsis Theatre. Website: Timethefttheatre.ca Instagram: Timethefttheatre Heliposistheatreco Credits Created by - Elijah Bell, Theodore Falkiner, and Thomas Moore About the Artist timetheft theatre society strives to create and produce exciting theatre by emerging, queer, and neurodivergent theatre artists. we aim to help artists platform their original and reimagined art in an accessible and engaging manner. Thomas Moore (he/they) is one of timetheft theatre’s co-founders and is proud to be making independent theatre in Victoria. They are a director, designer and improviser who is excited to be improvising for you this summer! Thomas’ previous timetheft credits include: Of Theseus (2023), Carpet (2023) and most recently Endgame (2024). His favourite torture method is stubbing your toe on an ottoman. Youch. Theodore Falkiner is a queer settler theatre artist who grew up on the territories of the Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, and is a founding member of timetheft theatre. Growing up, Theo watched a lot of Monty Python, Laverne and Shirley, and The Muppet Show and these comedians are probably the reason they became funny. Theo found out about improv as a tween and after years of rigorous training has gone on to teach at esteemed institutions like The Canadian Improv Games’ Improv Camp and Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People. Theo’s favorite torture method is a razor scooter to the ankle. Elijah Bell (he/him) is a many hatted individual and the founder of Heliopsis Theatre Co. based in Victoria. Recent credits include writing and directing Spare Parts: A Robot Space Musical (2025), and 600 Seconds (2024), in his free time he enjoys researching forbidden texts and shouting “ITS ALIVE” on dark and stormy nights. His favourite torture method is Scaphism (but not if it happened to him). Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes; non-sexual shock collars. Sensory warnings: Voluntary audience interaction/participation. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4
During a party, you can often find the outcasts and misfits finding corners to become wallflowers. The one place of solace away from the sounds, and lights, and stimuli is the bathroom. What happens when multiple people avoiding the party end up in the same one? As they lock out the world and avoid the usual party chaos will they find a way to let each other in. The Bathroom was created in participation at The LEAP program with The Arts Club Theatre. The Bathroom explores what it’s like to take a peak at a room where we normally seek privacy and asks us if one person, on one night, can change how we interact with the world. Credits Created by - August Elzinga About the Artist August Elzinga is a trans non-binary performer, playwright, puppet-lover, and drag artist. Previous works have been featured in the Telling It Bent program with The Frank Theatre and more. August is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts ‘Company C’ program and received their Bachelor of Performing Arts from Capilano University. 'The Bathroom' was created and first presented with The Arts Club Theatre's LEAP Program. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language; adult themes. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
Award-winning comedian and playwright Leif Oleson-Cormack pushes confessional storytelling to its limits in this show about a methodically moronic plan to double-down on unrequited love through a disastrous trip to Disneyland. Featuring criminal acts, surgically-altered sugar daddies, Sinatra impersonators, and a cynically-charged "coming out", this (unfortunately) true story is not to be missed. “Leif Oleson-Cormack shows how two things — storytelling skill and pure fearlessness — can make for truly captivating theatre.” - The Edmonton Journal ★★★★½ "He's scrupulously fair and his account is suffused with compassion and understanding, even for the most predatory characters featured. Wryly amusing from the get-go, he keeps you hooked with the rich, morally shady detail of his story." - The Scotsman ★★★★ “Oleson-Cormack wore his heart on his sleeve throughout his intimate monologue...well-structured and well-written.” - North West End UK ★★★★ “Exquisitely well written stand-up comedy...Leif Oleson-Cormack really knows what he’s doing.” - Butterwort ★★★★ “[T]he show is an unusual fusion of stand-up comedy and theatre. And it capitalizes on the particular appeals of both — the bright forward energy (and sharp-eyed comic observations) of the former, the narrative structure and momentum of the latter. Both the current and the younger Leif’s occupy the stage, in a vivid way. And they make great company for a Fringe hour.” - 12thnight.ca “This is a great one-person autobiographical Fringe show — it’s a honest story above love that manages to be very funny, even though there are some darker moments in this tale. Oleson-Cormack is very likeable and combined with a story full of twists, he keeps the audience engaged in his adventure.” -UMFM Theatre Reviews “Feverish, funny and fantastical, this adventure delivers entertainment on all fronts. Love it.” -JennyRevue.com “Leif Oleson-Cormack shows us where the future of stand-up comedy should lie.” -View Magazine (Pick for ‘Best of Fringe’ 2022) Nominated for the Just for Laughs Award for Outstanding English Comedy in the Frankie Awards (2022 Montreal Fringe) Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - Leif Oleson-Cormack About the Artist Before entering the world of stand-up comedy, Leif Oleson-Cormack was an award-winning Juilliard-trained playwright who designed video games for a living. Since then, he’s been performing his dark, queer, confessional style for audiences across the globe. His critically acclaimed one-man show, The Disney Delusion, recently toured to sold-out houses across Canada, the US, and Edinburgh, and was nominated for the Just for Laughs prize for Outstanding English Comedy at the Montreal Fringe Festival. He won the 2019 Calgary FunnyFest Comedy Competition and has had the pleasure of opening for acts such as Alan Carr, Scott Thompson, and Aparna Nancherla. Accessibility Content warnings: Course language; adult themes. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Murder, Mayhem and Mussolini's Blackshirts are part of this Ramona Dale romantic adventure story set in 1920's. A chance encounter in front of a famous fountain leads Ramona along a path of love, deception, and honour as she makes the choice to get involved. A story set in motion when an Antique camera was found with the initials R. D. and Ramona Dale was born. She was sent off by a wealthy Godmother to bring back pictures of her life. Little did either of them know that taking these pictures would lead Ramona to learn about herself and the secret world of power. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - Hannah Ockenden and Jim Leard Directed by - Jim Leard About the Artist Hannah Ockenden works in various facets of performing arts, with some previous highlights being her role as Helen in All's Well That's Ends Well with the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, touring in Europe and Asia with Germany based Whitehorse Theatre, and South Pacific with Calgary Opera. This is her fourth Victoria fringe but first on stage! Jim Leard is the Founding Artistic Director of The Story Theatre Company, has has a hand in many Fringe shows as a performer, as a Writer, and as a Director, and has worked with most of the Theatre Companies in Victoria. Accessibility Content warnings: Adult themes; stories about murder. Sensory warnings: Flash of a camera. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
Kayla had high hopes for 2020 (as did we all). But truly, 2019 had been, up until that point, one of her worst years on record. Her cat died, she had an out-of-town Fringe flop, experienced some minor heartbreak, and almost got evicted because of OCD-related hoarding. With the freshness of the Fringe flop, she almost didn’t enter the lottery for the 2020 Victoria Fringe, figuring she needed a bit more time to lick her wounds. Ultimately leaving it up to the universe (because honestly, she was probably going to be waitlisted anyway, as per usual), the universe decided she was being a baby and told her to suck it up. But in the worst ever example of mixed signals she had ever experienced, a few months later, the universe turned around and said, “Ha. Just kidding.” The five years that followed took her on a journey through new mental health lows, a broken wrist, and a renoviction. But it also brought her opportunities for new beginnings and provided the necessary space to start to heal – mentally and physically. Now, after a five year delay, the universe has given her the chance she missed out on in 2020 – with a much more compelling story to tell this time around. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Written by - Kayla Hart About the Artist Kayla Hart is a 2011 UVic Writing graduate who participated in her first Victoria Fringe in 2012 and has been unsuccessfully applying nearly every year since. She was however lucky enough to be drawn for Fringe lotteries in Vancouver (2014) and Winnipeg (2019) and was selected to workshop a show in the 2016 Intrepid Theatre YOU Show series. After years of being waitlisted, Kayla was finally drawn for the Victoria Fringe again. Unfortunately, it was for the 2020 festival. Five years and quite the tumultuous mental health journey later, she is back with quite the story to tell. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
The Baumann Centre
Fringe Venue 3
After a distinguished 30-year career in law enforcement and decades of wowing audiences at fairs, festivals, and community events across the prairies with his whimsical, family-friendly ventriloquist show, Dave Dixon is proud to unveil his latest project: “The Magical World of Ventriloquism – One Man’s Journey.” This hour-long performance offers a behind-the-scenes look at Dave’s remarkable venture into the amazing world of ventriloquism. Combining humour, storytelling, and with the help of his puppet friends, Dave will share the secrets of this unique art form, from the difficult task of pronouncing each letter of the alphabet without the slightest lip movement to creating lovable characters, and mastering the illusion of bringing a puppet to life! With his signature passion, infectious energy, and a knack for connecting with audiences of all ages, Dave’s performance with his puppet characters promises to entertain, educate, and inspire. Whether you’re a lifelong fan of ventriloquism or experiencing it for the first time, “The Magical World of Ventriloquism” is a must-see adventure that will leave you smiling, laughing, and marvelling at this timeless art form. I want to acknowledge my wife, Donna, for her endless support, constructive feedback, and being my biggest fan. Credits Created by - Dave Dixon About the Artist Dave Dixon is a self-taught ventriloquist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a police officer, Dave found a creative outlet in ventriloquism to balance the demands of his job. After countless hours practicing in front of a mirror and years of perfecting his craft, Dave performs at fairs, festivals, and corporate events. With a deep passion for the art of ventriloquism, Dave finds joy in the creative challenge of giving voice and personality to his puppets. His latest production, The Magical World of Ventriloquism - One Man’s Journey, is a heartfelt celebration of his lifelong adventure in bringing characters to life. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Wood Hall
Fringe Venue 2
Pick Your Path! The award winning Spontaneous Shakespeare Company come to the Victoria Fringe for the first time with Tragedy or Triumph. Come see a once-in-a-lifetime Shakespearian epic, based off of your story! Will it be a heart rending tragedy or an epic romance? Not even the cast knows! Together, everyone will discover a new, lost, (made-up) classic from the Bard! (Audience participation is not required, so come on out and enjoy the show!) "...a delightful celebration of what improv — and Shakespeare — can be." 5/5 Stars - Saskatoon Star Phoenix Best of the Festival - The Orlando Sentinal Critics Choice Award - Outstanding Improv Show - Orlando Fringe Best National Show - Saskatoon Fringe No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - The Spontaneous Shakespeare Company About the Artist The Spontaneous Shakespeare Company is Vancouver’s premiere award winning improvised Shakespeare company. Composed of some of Vancouver’s best acting and improv talent, they bring their hilarious twist on the works of the Bard to audiences all over North America. Founded in 2016 the company has now performed at the Orlando, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, the Vancouver Improv Festival and the Bellingham Improv Festival, with regular performances at home at Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver and many more exciting shows to come. This marks their Victoria Fringe debut! Accessibility Content warnings: Violence. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
It all started when Executive and Artistic Director Dyana Sonik-Henderson found herself captivated by the 1925 gothic and melodramatic silent picture Phantom of the Opera. With a spark of creative inspiration, she quickly became enthralled with old monster pictures and began to experiment with how to transform these iconic movie moments and stories into dance. The result is several short works that bring the classic horror movie genre of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s back to the stage and in 3D. Combining Broken Rhythms’ innovative rhythmical contemporary style you’re in for a captivating and nostalgic experience. This performance is supported by the Victoria Foundation as part of Intrepid Theatre’s Stages & Spaces program. Limited $25 Early Bird tickets available until Monday Sept 1st. Early Bird tickets get early entrance and a pre-show chat (for 7:30pm performances only). Credits Choreography: Dyana Sonik-Henderson Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: Haze. About the Artist Broken Rhythms Victoria Society is a Victoria-based, registered not-for-profit independent dance company founded in 2011 under the artistic direction of Dyana Sonik-Henderson. The company was created to showcase the unique style of Rhythmical Contemporary, to provide local artists with performance and training opportunities, and to support and develop the Canadian arts community. Broken Rhythms has created and produced numerous original works such as SPARK, GRIM, SEVEN, UNIVERSAL HORRORS, THYSELF, INTERNAL RHYTHMS, INTO THE WIRE, 1,000 PIECES OF ∏ , ABOVE ME, CHIARO:SCURO, KNOTTED and ON HOLD that have toured all over Canada. They have been awarded nine Pick of the Fringe awards, named as one of Toronto Star’s “can’t miss shows at the Toronto fringe”, received the LOLA International project award and most recently were invited to perform at Dancing on the Edge/Vancouver Contemporary festival 2025.
Metro Studio
Metro Studio
An actor obsessed with a character who inspired him, fires one shot that would change the nation and echo throughout history. But not the way he hoped! Where's Noonan? presents an original play written by Melissa Blank and directed by David MacPherson. Where's Noonan? Has previously presented at the Victoria Fringe - Confessions of a Catholic School Girl - Silk - George and Gracie: A Love Story As well as - The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine - Oleanna - Angels in America part 1 & 2. No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created by - Melissa Blank and David MacPherson About the Artist Melissa Blank has been a regular at Theatre Inconnu, Langham Court theatre and many local theatre companies She performed as Hamlet in a Gender-Bending production, as well as Rosalind from As You Like It with The Victoria Shakespeare Society. David MacPherson has been a director and actor and writer in Victoria for many years. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
James Bay United Church
SITE A
Voices of Every Woman is a documentary theater piece that weaves together the stories of five women who faced gender-based violence with tragic outcomes. Through powerful testimonies and striking stage imagery, this play invites us to reflect on the deep roots of this violence and challenges us to confront our collective responsibility to break this devastating cycle. It is an urgent call to raise our voices and take action to transform this painful reality. Credits Created by - Diana Uscanga About the Artist Producciones Luna Escarlata (Scarlet Moon Productions) is a Mexico-based theater company founded by Diana Uscanga. Through powerful, socially conscious performances, the company creates safe and transformative spaces for dialogue, healing, and activism. Their work explores urgent social topics such as gender-based violence, mental health, and environmental care, using documentary theater, storytelling, and poetic imagery. With a strong focus on community engagement, each performance often includes post-show conversations to foster reflection and connection. The company believes in the power of art to build a more empathetic and just society. Accessibility Content warnings: Coarse language, Adult themes, violence including gender-based violence, portrayals of domestic violence, and descriptions of female genital mutilation, stories and scenes of femicide, missing women, victim blaming and revictimization, and descriptions of trauma and PTSD. Sensory warnings: sudden loud sounds (yelling), voluntary audience interaction, post-show discussion. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Metro Studio
Fringe Venue 1
When the system fails, Beth begins caring for her aging disabled mother. It seemed the right thing to do at the time. But an ill-intentioned social worker, an estranged sibling, a high maintenance cat - and the woman in the mirror - are now “writing” the story that is defining Beth’s life. Water People is a heartfelt expression of one woman’s struggle to provide her mother with a life of dignity while keeping her own dreams alive. Ellen Arrand is an award-winning playwright and published novelist. **** “a wonderfully delicate monologue that’s as engaging and compelling as it is lovingly layered… “Water People” dips into Dylan Thomas-like territory… it’s hard not to be captivated by the simplest details as we 'listen with the third ear, the ear of the heart' ”. Check the Program (Victoria) **** “an important show that pulls back the curtain on the realities of what happens to us all as we age” Edmonton Journal No latecomers after the show begins. Credits Created/written by - Ellen Arrand About the Artist Ellen Arrand is a published novelist - Public Works; Private Souls (Beach Holme) & Hotel Abundancia (Ekstasis Editions), short story writer (various literary magazines), and Playwright – The Bridge, Bear Me Stiffly Up & Trutch Street Women (the latter two published by Ekstasis), and Water People. She studied playwriting during her Master of Fine Arts program (Guelph University) with Judith Thompson and Marilyn Bowering. Trutch Street Women was a finalist in the Canadian National Playwriting Competition (2005). Ellen’s plays have been produced both by Theatre Inconnu (Victoria). and Theatre One (Nanaimo) with Ellen performing in nearly all the productions. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
Intrepid Studio
Fringe Venue 5
White Samosa is a spicy stand-up special from Vancouver’s first multilingual comedian, Harmeet Singh Kohli. Armed with accents and unapologetic punchlines, Harmeet takes aim at cultural appropriation, Uber-driving stereotypes, and everything in between. Expect chair-falling laughter as he serves up stories only a brown guy with a mic can tell. This is comedy that flips clichés, breaks barriers—and yes, delivers extra chutney. Latecomers up to 15 minutes after the show begins. Credits Written by - harmeet singh kohli About the Artist Harmeet Singh Kohli is Vancouver’s first multilingual stand-up comedian, performing in English, Punjabi, and Hindi. Born in India and raised on Bollywood, butter chicken, and big dreams, Harmeet blends cultural insight with sharp wit to challenge stereotypes and spark laughter. His comedy draws from real-life experiences as an immigrant, dad, and former rideshare driver. Whether riffing on racism or recreating awkward auntie encounters, Harmeet’s humor bridges communities. He’s performed across Canada and the U.S., leaving audiences in stitches—and a little smarter. White Samosa is his latest solo show, packed with punchlines and perspective. Accessibility Content warnings: None. Sensory warnings: None. For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website: https://intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/fringe-festival/accessibility/ Important Fringe Information: You must have a Fringe Button to see this show. You can purchase your Fringe Button online or at the Intrepid Box Office. Online purchases can be picked up at the venue of your show. 100% of tickets are available in advance, no tickets reserved for door sales. All tickets have a $2.00 Fringe service charge and passes have a $4 Fringe service charge, this supports the festival. No refunds. No exchanges. If you are unwell contact the box office (tickets@intrepidtheatre.com). All shows start on time. Depending on the show, latecomers may not be seated. Masks are recommended.
SKAM Satellite Studio
Fringe Venue 4