Eva Barrie
Director-Writer-Dramaturg-ArtMonster
Playwriting
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Thank you to the organizations that have supported by writing: WhyNot Theatre, Fu-GEN Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre The Theatre Centre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Gargantua, DaPoPo Theatre, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Theatrefront, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Residencies
WhyNot Theatre: developing/Translating Der Besuch der Alten Dame
Tarragon Theatre Playwright in Residence: developing Untamed
Factory Theatre Bedrock Creators' Initiative & Natural Resources Playwright's Group: developing Untamed
Theatrefront Playwright in Residence: developing Five Forests
Plays
Per Gint: A Sort-of-Adaption of Peer Gynt
On a search for his true authentic self, Per ventures through mountains, troll kingdoms, over oceans and beneath cities, disrupting weddings, villages, and a quite questionable psychological institution, until ultimately arriving back to a home that no longer exists. This radical re-telling of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt explores themes of Individualism, community, and how to live a life.
Cast Size: Variable, with doubling encouraged (38 Characters Total)
Previous productions/workshops: George Brown Theatre School Mainstage Production (director: Eva Barrie)
Untamed
Bianca thinks everything in Padua is fun, easy, and fair. When her sister Kate is sold to Petruchio, she begins to take in the town quite differently. Inspired and including parts from Taming of the Shrew and Lysistrata, Untamed digs into the messiness of protest, revolution, and feminism.
Cast Size: 12
Productions/Workshops: Tarragon Theatre's Playreading Week (director: Mike Payette), Toronto Metropolitan University (director: Lisa Karen Cox)
Baby Box
Co-written with Michelle Polak & Miranda Calderon, with dramaturg Thomas Morgan Jones
A nurse, a mother placing her child in a baby box, and a mother waiting to adopt a child–these three women weave their stories of before and after a baby is placed in a safe haven box outside of a hospital.
There are just three opportunities to see this production, which is a unique blend of movement, lyrical text, and powerful prose.
Cast Size: 3
Productions/Workshops: Sarasvàti Productions (director: Hope McIntyre)
Five Forests
A fantastical play about miscarriage.
Cast size: 3 or 4
Productions/Workshops: Theatrefront Workshop Reading (Director: Vikki Anderson)
Agency
After spending her life haunted by her father’s mysterious disappearance at the hands of the Stasi, Hannah has the opportunity to set the record straight: she finds the man who spied on her father. Demanding answers and getting far more than she bargained for, Hannah takes a trip into the past.
Set in present-day Berlin and 1980s Divided Berlin, Agency investigates the relationship between the communist vs. post-Wall generation while exploring, intimacy in lonely human-beings, and the walls we build around ourselves.
Cast size: 3
Productions/Workshops: Yell Rebel (Director: Megan Watson), DaPoPo Festival Live-In Festival
For a full list of plays and writing, read my CV