Taking Flight premiere

Taking Flight is a documentary about Citie Ballet going professional, written by Katherine Koller and produced and directed by Theresa Wynnyk of Company of Women on the Screen for TelusOptik TV. The 40-minute film documents the struggles of Citie Ballet of Edmonton in its first year as a professional company. In preparation for the last two shows of the season, Barocco Beat and Ariadne’s Gate, this film takes...

Last Chance Leduc at Playworks Ink

Last Chance Leduc by Katherine Koller, winner of the Alberta Playwriting Competition, was presented by Theatre Alberta and Alberta Playwrights Network at Playworks Ink 2013: Staging Alberta’s Landscapes and Characters on September 27, 2013. The reading was directed by Kate Newby and featured Vanessa Holmes as Evalma, Braden Griffiths as Wes, Lesia T. Bear as Nohkom and Joe Perry as Tricky. Michelle Kneale,...

The Exchange at FemFest

Katherine Koller’s short play, The Exchange, was produced at Winnipeg’s 11th FemFest, Revelation & Revolution, by Sarasvati Productions.  Directed by Megan Andres, and stage managed by Garrett Rusnak, the play featured Shanley Scarsbrook Jardine as Shauna(R) and Mallory Schellenberg as Molly(L).  Molly comes to Shauna to do an exchange. Shauna doesn’t know Molly, but Molly knows Shauna by...

“Making Myth on the Prairies” in CTR

In the Views section in Canadian Theatre Review 154 (Spring 2013), Katherine Koller writes about her process, and the challenge of writing plays that reach to the mythic, in personal, provincial, national and global terms. The plays mentioned are Coal Valley: the Making of a Miner, Last Chance Leduc, The Seed Savers and the opera libretto, Madonna of the Wilderness. Photos accompany the...

Last Chance Leduc wins Alberta Playwriting Competition

Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc has won the Grand Prize in the Alberta Playwriting Competition. The prize is $3,500 and a reading at Playworks Ink at the Banff Centre. In Last Chance Leduc, which is set during the biggest historical event in Alberta, the 1947 Leduc oil strike, Evalma and Wes struggle in the push-pull of a young marriage in peril, in winter, in a tarpaper shack in the woods, with a baby...

The Seed Savers scene published in Scenes from a Diverse World

Scenes from a Diverse World, published by the International Centre of Women’s Playwrights and edited by Karin Williams,  features 73 scenes about diversity for two or three students actors by women playwrights from around the globe, including: Suzanne Bailie (US), Shirley Barrie (Canada), Lynne S. Brandon (US), Hindi Brooks (US), Emily Cicchini (US), Christina Cigala (US), Anita Chandwaney (US), Judy Chicurel...

Dirt Baby at Women’s Work Festival

On May 8, 2013, Dirt Baby, a new full-length play by Katherine Koller (AB), was read at the Women’s Work Festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland. This festival of new full-length work by Canadian women is in its 7th year, and also featured plays by Sally Stubbs (BC), Meghan Greeley (NL), Christine Comeau (PQ) and Andrea Dymond (NS). The Festival is co-produced by She Said Yes Theatre, RCA Theatre and White...

Ariadne’s Gate at Citie Ballet

Edmonton’s new professional ballet company, Citie Ballet, presents Ariadne’s Gate, an original story ballet with libretto by Katherine Koller and choreography by Francois Chevennement. This new ballet is a retelling of the romance between Theseus and Ariadne and the slaying of the monster Minotaur, Ariadne’s half-brother. Performed by dancers Mingyi Liang as Theseus, Kayley Winfield as Ariadne,...