Queenie’s Castle translation

Queenie’s Castle by Katherine Koller is translated into Cree and French by Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company and Troupe du Jour  at the Discovery Festival in Saskatoon, March 21-24, 2013. Curtis Peeteetuce, AD of SNTC, directs Lacey Eninew as Olivia and Darlene Auger as Queenie in this reading that contains both English and Cree dialogue (Cree translation by Clarence Quinney), with surtitles in both English...

Last Chance Leduc at SkirtsAfire

Excerpts from Last Chance Leduc by Katherine Koller are read at Peep Show in the first SkirtsAfire Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, on March 10, 2013. Directed by Tracy Carroll, John Ullyatt reads Tricky, Alison Wells reads Nohkom and Karyn Mott reads Evalma.  SkirtsAfire is a weekend-long celebration of all arts by women at Alberta Avenue...

The Exchange in Cleveland, Ohio

“The Exchange” by Katherine Koller is one of eight short plays selected as part of SWAN-Day readings in Cleveland, Ohio.  Directed by Deb Magid, the readings take place on March 30, 2013, at both the Convergence Continuum Theatre (The Limnis) at 2 p.m.  and at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland Heights at 8 p.m. SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) is an international holiday celebrating women playwrights. In...

Love, Janis: A Fantasy

“Love, Janis: A Fantasy” is included in Key City Public Theatre’s evening of international monologues, Here, There & Everywhere, March 8, 12, 19, 2013, in Port Townsend, Washington.  “Love, Janis”  by Katherine Koller considers the possibilities if Janis Joplin had not died of her overdose, but instead was found and saved by nuns and delivered of two twin girls, Peace and Love. ...

LitFest Reading

As part of LitFest, Anne Nothof delivers three talks on Alberta theatre at the Strathcona County Public Library in Sherwood Park, Alberta. On November 4, 2012, she invites playwright Katherine Koller to read and talk about her plays.  Katherine reads a scene from The Seed Savers and also an excerpt from Last Chance...

Heart of Darkness

Katherine Koller’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a new dance drama presented by Theatre Encounter in Calgary, Alberta, premieres November 21-24, 2012 at the Theatre Junction Grand. Directed by Mike Unrau, with Choreography by Sarah Poffenroth and Jennifer DeWolf, original music is composed by Riley Koenig of Vancouver.  The cast features Rhandi Neal as Charles Marlow, Andrew Lewis as...

Last Chance Leduc reading in Calgary

Alberta Playwrights’ Network Calgary Reading Series presents Last Chance Leduc by Katherine Koller at Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, Alberta on October 27, 2012. Directed by Kate Newby and Dramaturged by Michelle Kneale, Vanessa Holmes reads Evalma, Darlene Auger reads Nohkom, Braden Griffiths reads Wes and Joe Perry reads Tricky. Last Chance Leduc is the story of a young marriage in trouble during the 1947...

Reading at Alberta Arts Days

Katherine Koller read excerpts from a new play, Last Chance Leduc, at the invitation of Theatre Alberta in celebration of Alberta Arts Days, September 29,...