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Katherine Koller is an Edmonton Public Library Featured Writer from August to October 2019. See her book lists on short stories and favourite titles of the last 16 years. Her first talk for the library is at Highlands branch, about writing in different forms in “Stage to Screen to Page” on Thursday, September 12, at 7:30 pm. Her writing workshop, on Dialogue, is Thursday, October...
Colin Matty on sound effects in Hope Soup by Katherine Koller, photo by Judy McFerran Hear my interview about making radio drama with Russell Bowers on CBC Daybreak Alberta, August 10, 2109: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-95-daybreak-alberta/clip/15732068-serving-hope-on-the-radio. Davina Stewart, who directs Hope Soup at the Edmonton Fringe, also said in rehearsal: “When I was ten years old, I went...
This contemporary radio play by Katherine Koller will be presented at the 2019 Edmonton Fringe Festival, directed by Davina Stewart, sound by Colin Matty, and performed by Judy McFerran, Erin Pettifor and Jake Tkaczyk. In HOPE SOUP, a radio drama from the streets of today, Jodi runs from Ryder, the neighbourhood pimp, but Nanny Grey, who raised Ryder from a boy, gets Jodi digging for hope, truth and a future. Hear...
This new opera by librettist Katherine Koller and composer Benton Roark will be presented in a workshop reading on June 19 at 3:30 pm at Dunbar Heights United in Vancouver. The Handless Maiden is inspired by an old tale heard in many countries around the world. It is the story of female empowerment, of discovering one’s own strengths despite disfigurement, banishment and loss, and it is set in the wild,...
Here is the link for Katherine Koller’s interview with Russell Bowers at CBC Daybreak Alberta, June 1, 2019: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-95-daybreak-alberta/clip/15714007-katherine-koller-on-winning-a-second-chance Russell Bowers, CBC Daybreak...
The Handless Maiden, a new opera by Katherine Koller (librettist) and Benton Roark (composer) was featured at the Vancouver Opera spring festival, Fairytales & Fables, on April 27 and 30, 2019, presented by Redshift Music Society. Performers include Heather Pawsey, Debi Wong, Kathleen Allan, Alireza Mojibian, Mark Takeshi McGregor, Brian Nesselroad, Adrian Verdejo, Alexander Kramer. Conducted by Kathleen...
Hear Katherine Koller read her story “The Exchange” from her new collection, Winning Chance, available for pre-order now on Amazon and Chapters/Indigo, and in bookstores in May. Sound recording by Chronopia. “The Exchange” by Katherine...
EPL Featured Writer
“Hope Soup” CBC Interview
Hope Soup
The Handless Maiden
Interview, Daybreak Alberta
The Handless Maiden
“The Exchange” recording from WINNING CHANCE