a production in association with crow's Theatre All the Little animals I have eaten Written & Directed by Karen Hines

livestream reading april 3, 2020 all the little animals i have eaten Written & Directed by karen hines starring Amanda Cordner, Belinda Corpuz, Lucy Hill, Amy Rutherford & Zorana Sadiq creative team Written and Directed by Karen Hines Set and Costume Design by Gillian Gallow Lighting Design by Bonnie Beecher Music & Sound Design by Richard Feren* Choreography by Tracey Power Production Dramaturgy by Guillermo Verdecchia Stage Management by Ken James Stewart Assistant Direction by Teiya Kasahara** Associate Sound Designer Maddie Bautista Head of Wardrobe Joyce Padua Co-Production Managers Pip Bradford & Ellen Brooker Accessibility Consultant Jess Watkin

Song: Melody & Lyrics by Karen Hines; Arrangement by Richard Feren, Additional Harmonies by the Cast.

*Roughly adapted for streamed experience **Made possible by the Canada Council for the arts

For Company Bios and Headshots, visit nightwoodtheatre.net Cover photo of Amanda Cordner by Dahlia Katz a message from the artistic director

When we had to make the heartbreaking decision to pull the plug on Karen Hines’ All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, we were about to go into tech. It was the reality of imagining the tech week process underscored by fear and uncertainty, imagining set pieces and lighting instruments abandoned in the theatre, and imagining folks travelling to work that made us make the call. My phone call to Karen was my first tear-filled conversation as an AD to an artist. I couldn’t imagine her heartbreak. Deep down she knew - we all (maybe) knew - that we were holding onto impossible hope and had to let go.

So all I could say to our amazing supporters was that there would be some sort of creative documentation that we would offer - we didn’t know what. It took dozens of conversations to know if we had the will and unanimous agreement (and mental wellness) at our disposal to pull together a livestream while we grieved. That on top of caretaking, homeschooling, gorging on news, (and coordinating easements from associations who would never under normal circumstances allow us to do this) made us unsure.

But we wanted to create a moment of hope, thanks and closure for our cast and creative team, as well as our community. To our knowledge 99% of tickets have been turned into donations, which speaks to the enormous generosity of the people who come and share moments in the dark with us.

As with everyone, we’ve been learning all sorts of hacks with Zoom to make our lives still roll. And it goes without saying that a reading on Zoom streamed over Youtube is no substitution for a production. But there is something amazing to appreciate in the resilience of our kind to put away our desire for the exquisite, the polished, and the transcendent to make way for the heart. I’m grateful to Karen, and this gorgeous cast and creative team for making such beauty out of the corner we’ve painted ourselves into in search of biggering and bettering. Enjoy your time with us here at La Ferme!

Andrea Donaldson Artistic Director On behalf of all of us at Nightwood a message from karen hines playwright note All the Little Animals I Have Eaten is for my nieces, Jade, Becky, and Zoë. Also for Laine and Vaughan and all the nephews, too. literary acknowledgements The conversations in this play find their source in conversations I had with the following friends and authors, or stole from their pages.

Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Anne Sexton, Qiu Miaojin, May Ayim, Jia Tolentino, Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace are all quoted directly - from their works, journals, articles, letters and interviews. Also quoted, directly or directly are Kate Lynch, Kathleen Oliver, Blake Brooker, Alana Wilcox, Maev Beaty, Derek Parfit, Jamie Dunsdon, Jamie Tognazzini, Karen Fricker, Susan Sontag, Jessica Moss, Jennifer Egan, Guillermo Verdecchia, Laurie Penny, Jennifer Kesler, Joe Wenderoth, Marina O'Loughlin, John Cassidy, The Dark Mountain Collective. playwright acknowledgements Blake Brooker and Guillermo Verdecchia both went with me beyond dramaturgy, through waves of feminism, to athleisure and barre, and back again. Their words are embedded in the text. Playwrights Colleen Murphy and John Murrell O.C., A.O.C, cherished mentors. The Posse of Four: Denise Clarke, Georgina Beaty, Nadien Chu, Ellen Close. The Posse of Five, Amanda Cordner, Belinda Corpuz, Lucy Hill, Amy Rutherford, Zorana Sadiq - all blazingly generous. Johanne Deleeuw, Kenneth J. Stewart. Cassie Negel, Iris Turcott. And gratitude to all the many actors who have read this play aloud and talked about whatever it is women talk about. all the little animals i have eaten development history All the Little Animals I Have Eaten was first presented publicly in 2017 with a more embryonic version of the script, and was produced by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre as part of the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary that year.

All the Little Animals I Have Eaten was directed and dramaturged by Blake Brooker. It was staged by Denise Clarke. the company

Maddie Bautista Maddie Bautista is a Bi, Saudi Arabia-born Filipinx sound designer and theatre artist. Maddie has been nominated for a Dora Award for her music in Eraser at RISER 2019, and also nominated for the 2020 Pauline McGibbon Award. Selected sound credits: bug (Theatre Passe Muraille), Wah Wah Wah (Wildside 2020), Private Eyes (lemonTree creations), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers, and Little Brothers (b current). Her performance art duo xLq has received the Nightswimming’s 5x25 2017 Commission and NOW Magazine’s Audience Choice Award 2018 for co-creating 4inXchange, which is currently touring across Canada. She is the recipient of fu-GEN Theatre’s inaugural Walk the Walk Commission for emerging femme Asian-Canadian playwrights for her play Kersey Kamayan Gets Woke. http://www.maddiebautista.com

Bonnie Beecher Bonnie has designed over 350 productions for theatre, opera and dance across Canada and internationally. Recent productions include SEX (shaw festival), The Crucible (Stratford), Rigoletto ( Opera), Seid Umschlangen (Karlsruhe Ballet, Germany), Jacqueline (Tapestry Opera), Paradise Lost (Centaur theatre), and Mary Poppins, and ROOM (The Grand ). Upcoming projects include Maria Stuart (Karlsruhe Ballet, Germany), The Devils Disciple (Shaw), and Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada). Pip Bradford Pip Bradford is a production manager and stage manager for many companies in , including Anandam DanceTheatre, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, ProArte Danza, 7a*11d Performance Art Festival, SummerWorks Performance Festival, Red Sky Performance, Nightwood Theatre, Ahuri Theatre, and The Theatre Centre. Pip also creates installation art with Rebecca Vandevelde as Art is Hard Productions and is one of the founders of The Bellows, a monthly mixer aimed at bringing artists and production staff together. Ellen Brooker Ellen Brooker is a stage manager, production manager, and production designer and builder. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries from Central St Martin’s (London, England), and has been happily applying her imagination to exciting projects in Toronto and internationally ever since. Selected credits include: • Production Manager for Kingston-based digital arts festival, foldA 2020 • Costume and Set Design Assistant for Lucid Ludic’s Brain Storm, in Association with Why Not Theatre • Stage Management for Morro & Jasp: Save the Date at Red Pearl Womxn international clown festival, Helsinki 2020 • Stage Management for Soup Can Theatre and Three Ships Collective’s 2019 remount of A Christmas Carol at Campbell House Museum Find her next in development with comedic mastermind Kat Letwin’s creepy Fringe 2020 show, and with CorpOLuz Theatre’s Siranoush, an excerpt of which was well received at the 2019 Caminos Festival. Amanda Cordner Amanda Cordner is a creator and performer currently creating and performing in Toronto.

Belinda Corpuz Belinda Corpuz is a Filipina-Canadian actor, singer/songwriter, musician, and creator. Her EP, All I Am, has garnered national radio-play, including features on CBC Radio. Belinda is a core member of Filipina multi-award-winning group, Tita Collective. She holds a BMus in Performance - Jazz Voice from the University of Toronto-Faculty of Music. Selected Theatre: Lady Sunrise (Factory Theatre), Tita Jokes (Tita Collective), Hilot Means Healer (Cahoots), Prairie Nurse (Factory Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse) Film: Lola’s Wake (), Jezebel (Reel Asian International Film Festival), Clown Killer (Wattpad/Cinecoup). www.belindacorpuz.com Richard Feren Richard has been creating music & sound designs for theatre, dance & film since 1992. For Nightwood: A Blow In The Face, Asking For It, Unholy, Refuge. Recent theatre: The Flick, Jerusalem, Dr. Silver (Outside The March), Betrayal, Copenhagen, Sisters, Animal Farm (Soulpepper); Measure For Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Every Brilliant Thing (CanadianStage); The Father, The Nether (Coal Mine); Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing, The Wars, Silence (The Grand Theatre). Film/TV: Features: It’s Hard To Be Human; The Anniversary; Burning, Burning; A Trip to the Island; Past Perfect; Possible Worlds. Numerous short films. Awards: 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, seven Dora Awards, shortlisted for 2012 Siminovitch Prize.

Gillian Gallow Selected Design Credits: Hadrian and Louis Riel (costumes, Canadian Opera Company); An Octoroon, Stage Kiss and The Russian Play (set/costumes, Shaw Festival); Art (set/ costumes, Soulpepper) August: Osage County, Idomeneus, Orlando, Testament of Mary and Incident at Vichy (costumes, Soulpepper), King Lear and Stuff Happens (set/costumes; NAC); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Million Dollar Quartet and Hand to God (set/costumes, RMTC) A Christmas Carol (set, RMTC), and The Runner (set/costume, Human Cargo/TPM). Upcoming: Costumes for Wolf Hall (Stratford) and costumes for The Devil’s Disciple (Shaw). Awards: Gillian has been nominated for eight Dora Mavor Moore awards receiving four and is the recipient of the 2018 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. Lucy Hill Lucy is delighted to be making her Nightwood Theatre/Crow’s Theatre debut with All the LIttle Animals I Have Eaten. Select theatre: Cake Walk (The Blyth Festival); Girls Like That (Tarragon Theatre); I, Claudia (Neptune Theatre, Imperial Theatre, Globe Theatre); The Cure for Death by Lightning (Western Canada Theatre); Tails from the City (Common Boots Theatre); The Night’s Mare, The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy (Caravan Farm Theatre); That Summer, The Clockmaker (Theatre North West); Gracie, Romeo & Juliet (Globe Theatre). Select improv: Toronto, I Love You, La Grande Jatte, The Curator, and Pushpins (Bad Dog Theatre). Select film/TV: Shut Up (written by and starring Lucy), Band Ladies, The Baroness von Sketch Show, Soul Decision Comedy. www.lucyadelehill.com & @lucyadelehill

Karen Hines Karen began as a performer on the fringes and emerged as an award-winning author, director and a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (The Pochsy Plays; Drama: Pilot Episode). She is also a Dora Award-winning director and performer. She has directed premiere productions of Linda Griffiths’ Age of Arousal (ATP), Michelle Thrush’s Inner Elder (One Yellow Rabbit, Nightwood) as well as adult horror clowns Mump & Smoot with whom she has toured across North America. A Second City alumna, Karen has performed extensively in Canadian stage, television and film. She is a Gemini nominee, and spent three seasons on CBC’s Emmy Award-winning Newsroom; her own prize-winning short films featuring her darkly comedic persona ‘Pochsy’ have screened on six continents. Karen is a National Magazine Award-winning writer, and her solo stage adaption Crawlspace has toured across Canada and is being adapted through Telefilm as a feature-length horror. Currently, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten is being translated into French, and will be staged at the Jamais Lu Festival in Montreal this May. Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 Teiya (they/them) is a queer, gender non-binary, multi-disciplinary performer/creator, and first- generation Nikkei-Canadian settler proud to make Tkarón:to their home. Most recently praised as “a force of nature” (Toronto Star) and “an artist with extraordinary things to say” (The Globe and Mail), Teiya combines opera, theatre, and taiko in their artistic practice and recently co-founded Amplified Opera, a new initiative which is bringing Toronto an “injection of [...] creativity & politics of inclusivity” (barczablog) to the opera community. Current: Intern Artistic Director/Artist in Residence at Nightwood Theatre; Performer Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Discord and Din/Buddies), and soloist Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Kingston Symphony). Next season Teiya will premiere their original work The Queen In Me in Toronto. Teiya is a co-founder of Queer AF Collective, founder of the Vocal Dojo, and is a graduate of Generator’s Artist Producer Training. More info visit: http://www.teiyakasahara.com

Joyce Padua Joyce Padua is a Toronto-based costume designer, cutter, and head of wardrobe. A recent BFA graduate of York University, her work as a cutter and head of wardrobe has been featured in several productions including shows with Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, and Young People’s Theatre. Previous theatre credits include: Costume design: The Life and Death of Fred Herko (Rendezvous With Madness Festival), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Crescent School), Orlando (Theatre@York), Wardrobe assistant: Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage), Sweat (Canadian Stage) Head of Wardrobe: Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre), Lady Sunrise (Factory Theatre), Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine Theatre). Tracy Power Tracey has worked across Canada and internationally as a director, choreographer, actor and writer. Most recently she choreographed and wrote GLORY, inspired by the true story of the women’s hockey team the Preston Rivulettes, which, just finished a twenty-four week Cross- Canada tour, the musical Miss Shakespeare, and Chelsea Hotel, The Songs of Leonard Cohen. She also directed/choreographed Elf, The Musical for Western Canada Theatre, choreographed La Traviata for Vancouver Opera, Onegin for the Arts Club, three seasons of the East Van Panto and The Winter’s Tale for Bard on the Beach. She will direct/choreograph Hello Dolly! for TUTS this summer and direct the premiere of Hey Viola! The Viola Desmond Project in September at WCT starring Krystle Dos Santos. She is the recipient of the Jessie Richardson, Elizabeth Sterling and Betty Mitchel Awards for her work. http://www.traceypower.ca

Amy Rutherford Amy Rutherford trained at The National Theatre School and Stratford Conservatory. Selected theatre credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper Theatre) As You Like It (Canadian Stage) Our Class (Studio 180) The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary) Divisadero (Necessary Angel) and Goodness (Volcano Theatre) Amy has also written several plays including Mortified (Studio 58, Touchstone) which recently won The PGC's Carol Bolt Award for best play of 2018. Zorana Sadiq A Toronto-based actor and singer, Zorana has recently been seen in Bend it Like Beckham (Starvox), Towards Youth (Crow’s Theatre), Helen’s Necklace (Canadian Rep Theatre), The Enchanted Loom (Cahoots Theatre), Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel Theatre), Sultans of the Street (Young People’s Theatre- Dora Mavor Moore Award), CHILD-ISH (Summerworks), Eleven Moons (Boston Musica Viva), Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation (Calgary Philharmonic and the Vancouver Symphony). Zorana has participated in new creation workshops with the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Tapestry and Canadian Rep Theatre. Television appearances include: Burnt Toast and The Mulroneys (Rhombus Media) Little Mosque on the Prairie, Designated Survivor, and Kim’s Convenience. Upcoming: The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage), Paradise Lost (Canadian Stage).

Ken James Stewart Nightwood: Stage Manager for Lo (or Dear Mr Wells), Legally Blonde (Lawyer Show); Assistant Stage Manager for Guys and Dolls (Lawyer Show), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Lawyer Show) Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Alice the Magnet (Theatre Animal); The Subjection of Kezia / Poof, Far Away (Shaw Festival Director’s Project); Apprentice Stage Manager for The Ladykillers, The Horse and His Boy, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Orchard (After Chekhov) (Shaw Festival); Herringbone / The Yalta Game, For Both Resting and Breeding (TIFT). Actor in productions with the Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Segal Centre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre Orangeville and others. Other: Duddy in the original cast recording of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravtiz by Alan Menken and David Spencer, available on iTunes. “You were made for the place where your real PASSION meets COMPASSION because there lies your real PURPOSE” - Ann Voskamp Guillermo Verdecchia Guillermo is a multi-award-winning Toronto-based theatre-maker fond of compound words. He recently directed The Jungle at the Tarragon Theatre, and heads new play development at Soulpepper Theatre. He is delighted to be working with Karen Hines and Nightwood.

Jessica Watkin Jessica Watkin is a Blind PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies with research focus in Disability and Performance, specifically Disabled artists and Dramaturgy in Canada. She is an interdisciplinary artist and dramaturg, focusing on tactile-based storytelling and Disability Dramaturgy. Jessica is a consultant for accessibility and Blind community input and has worked with such companies as lemontree Productions, Luminato, Animacy Theatre, and many more. She is currently a Relaxed Performance trainer and facilitator for the British Council and Tangled Art + Disability. Accessibility Consulting and Disability Dramaturgy: http://www.jesswatkin.com about nightwood theatre As Canada's foremost feminist theatre, Nightwood provides an essential home for the creation of extraordinary theatre by women. Founded in 1979, Nightwood Theatre has created and produced award-winning plays, which have received Dora Mavor Moore, Chalmers, Trillium, and Governor Genera's Awards. Now celebrating its milestone 40th Anniversary Season, Nightwood has long been recognized for artistic excellence, ongoing advocacy for women in Canadian theatre, and for its investment, training, and development of emerging female talent. staff Andrea Donaldson Artistic Director Beth Brown Managing Director Naz Afsahi Artistic Associate & Business Manager Victoria Laberge Director of Development Taylor Trowbridge Director of Marketing & Outreach Amanda Lin Marketing & Development Assistant Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Write From the Hip Program Director Chris Mustard Financial Advisor, Young & Associates Teiya Kasahara Artist in Residence and Write From the Hip Program Associate* Colette Habel Arts Management Intern , , Founding Members , *This position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts board of directors advisory committee Susan Hodkinson (Chair) Sylvia Chrominska Chantria Tram (Treasurer/Secretary) Valerie Hussey The Honourable Sarmite Bulte Michele Landsberg Paul Butler Jan Ruby Edina Cavalli Sonja Smits Hilary Green Pamela Taylor Sharlene Kanhai Caroline Ursulak Dr. Barbara Moses Maria Zakos

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