Jessica Anne Nelson
MFA Directing second year candidate Jessica Anne Nelson’s off-site show GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! by Greg MacArthur goes up July 19-22 & 25-29 at the Havana Theatre and features alumni: Actors – Riley Davis, Bronwyn Henderson, Sachi Nisbet, Isabella St Clair, Demi Pedersen and Designers: Vanka Chaitra Salim, Alaia Hamer, and Sara Smith.
A British Columbia Premiere, Greg MacArthur’s play is told in a rap-meets-nursery-rhyme style, and explores what transpires when emptiness becomes the norm and the struggle for power and control rules. This arresting script (first produced in 2000) is in response to the events surrounding the brutal death of Reena Virk in Victoria, British Columbia (1997), and by the Columbine massacre in Colorado, USA (1999).
Set in the cutthroat world of high school gymnastics, GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! follows the Friday-night exploits of four teenage friends as they seek revenge for a loss on the vaulting horse.
Tickets are NOW on sale for Excavation Theatre‘s summer production of Canadian playwright Greg MacArthur’s dangerous script at the Havana Theatre. featuring Riley Bugaresti, Bronwyn Henderson, Sachi Nisbet, Demi Pedersen, Sarah Jane, Samantha Sue Pawliuk, and designs by Vanka Chaitra Salim, Alaia Hamer, David Cowling, and Sara Smith!!
Director: Jessica Anne Nelson
Actors: Riley Davis, Bronwyn Henderson (Les Belles Soeurs, Love and Information, Arabian Nights) Sachi Nisbet, Demi Pedersen, Isabella St Clair
Sound Design: David Cowling
Costume Design: Alaia Hamer
Set and Props Design: Vanka Salim
Lighting Design: Sara Smith
Stage Manager Samantha Pawliuk
Fight Directors: Ryan McNeill Bolton, Mike Kovac, Sylvie La Riviere
WARNING: NOT EVERY PIECE OF THEATRE IS SUITABLE FOR EVERY AUDIENCE MEMBER. THIS PERFORMANCE CONTAINS SCENES OF VIOLENCE, NUDITY, AND MAY CAUSE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.
Jessica Anne Nelson Biography:
Director, Producer and Artistic Director of Excavation Theatre, Jessica Anne Nelson, is also the winner of the Vancouver Fringe Festival’s Best Site Specific Show Award for her production of Meanwhile. A recipient of a Graduate Support Initiative Award, John Brockington Scholarship in Theatre, and this fall will be the recipient of the Sydney J. Risk Award in Directing (UBC). Her thesis production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible runs at the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC, March 15-31, 2018. Most recently, the production of Ithaka, which she directed and co-produced through Excavation Theatre with dreamofpassion productions, won the best Supporting Actress Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (Small Theatre) for Yoshié Bancroft’s performance as Evie and Pixie.
Excavation Theatre’s mandate is to present stories from unheard voices within our world. We strive to create compelling work set in some way outside of the parameters of traditional theatre, and thus hopefully to find that anything at any time, in any place, can be a theatre performance, one only has to dig deep enough to discover it.
