Puzzles

Made a quick visit to Ottawa for the Prix Rideau Awards Gala. Puzzles was not a winner but congratulations are in order for all the artists who picked up nominations and awards. It was great to be selected along with Jinesea Rodrigues and Jacqui Du Toit for their amazing performances. It was a hopeful sign that more diverse voices, and the work of artists of colour will continue to be featured and recognized.

Puzzles has been nominated! 😄💃🏽

2022 Rideau Awards | Prix Rideau Awards The Prix Rideau Awards are proud to announce the nominees for the 2021-2022 Rideau Awards, celebrating the artists and works of Ottawa Theatre. See below for the full list of nominees.

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Our first review is in! Check it out here: https://apt613.ca/fringe-review-puzzles/

Thank you to Apt613 for taking the time!
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Preview night!!

Check out our writer Joanne John on Rogers TV!

https://youtu.be/xSit-tihLtc

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Mike Caza has been acting for over Three decades on stage, film and theatre. Starting at the University of Ottawa where the passion for the craft took hold. Mike moved to Toronto where he studied at the Toronto Studio Players/The Brooke studio and Second city. Wanting more he moved to LA in 1989 to study at the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute where the passion for the craft was fully developed and explored. In 1998 Mike moved back to his hometown of Ottawa, fell in love and stayed. Once asked why Acting? “It is a passion/need, on the verge of addiction but when you capture the character and have the audience, it is a remarkable feeling of truth.”

Jinesea is a multitalented improviser, stand-up comedian, sketch comedy artist, and theatrical actor. And YES, you probably do recognize her from that commercial, or your fave Lifetime or Hallmark film. Oh and she’s also an awesome life coach and personal trainer.

We are so excited to be performing in person. We look forward to seeing you all there in the next couple of weeks! Don’t forget to purchase your ticket! Link below!!

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Jacqui Du Toit is an award-winning, actor, playwright and an internationally celebrated storyteller from Kimberley, South Africa. Jacqui received the 2019 Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding Female Performance in Drowning Girls and an Outstanding Female Performance nomination for her role in Omnibus Bill. She created and performed her one-woman showThe Hottentot Venus - Untold, a monodrama nominated for best actress at the 2017 Rideaux Awards and Capital Critics Awards. Jacqui has performed across Canada and the world. She serves on the Board of Directors of GCTC, Ottawa Storytellers and Tactic Indie Theatre festival. Jacqui is the founder and director of 8thGeneration Storytelling Company and the Co-owner and Creative Director of The Origin Arts and Community Centre.

Meet our other co-director Micah Jondel DeShazer:

Micah hails from NYC and this is his second project in the Ottawa area but has performed/directed across the US for over 15 years. Can't wait to see if you can find the final piece of the puzzle!

Meet co-director Lisa Meuser!

Lisa Meuser, when younger, chose a video camera over a DisneyLand trip, and as an adult, she still finds time to direct films and stage plays when she is not running her talent agency, The Meus. She is a master at multitasking and drinking coffee — best served with Hawaiian pizza, with a side of inspiration.

Joanne John is a local writer whose work ranges from playwriting to poetry. She was awarded 2nd prize in a Canadian Authors Association Poetry Contest for her poem On Wellington Street and subsequently wrote and co-produced Stories of the Shell, with the Great Canadian Theatre Company and the National Arts Centre. Her monologues have been performed at the AfriCanadian Playwrights’ Conference, Harbourfront Festival, and were featured in a compendium of monologues ‘’Telling it Like it Is’’, edited by Djanet Sears. Joanne is a past member of the NAC's playwright’s unit. Her poems have appeared in the online publication, The Sentinel and she has been a feature poet at the Dusty Owl Series, Voices of Venus and Arts Night. Joanne’s short story, The Derelict Café, won first prize in the 2013 Carleton University Writing Competition. Her most recent play, “four wh**es and a pro’’ was stage read at Arts Court on New Play Tuesday as part of the 2018 Undercurrents series. In 2019, the Theatre Artists’ Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series (TACTICS) produced a workshop of “four wh**es and a pro” during the Fringe Festival at Arts Court, and in 2020, Joanne’s new play “Puzzles” was workshopped online with support from TACTICS. Puzzles will be featured in the Ottawa Fringe Festival in June, 2022.

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