As a result of participation in Tapestry New Opera’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab), three mini-libretti by Katherine Koller were performed September 21, 22 and 23, 2012, at Opera Briefs....
Abby’s Place was read in June 2012 at the Sussex Playwrights’ Club, U.K., as an award winner in the 2011 Radio Play Competition. The judge for the competition was Paul Moriarty, who praised the...
In its annual tradition, Citie Ballet winds-up its season with a delightfully original story ballet. Damsels of the Night (Les Demoiselles de la Nuit) is inspired by Jean Anouilh’s original idea from the 1948...
Art Lessons by Katherine Koller is in the voice of Cassie, who discovers the transformative power of visual art in herself and on the lives of others, from a seven-year-old to seventeen. Cassie is in a...
On Feb 2, 2012, Katherine Koller gives a talk on her Short Plays on Health Ethics at the Arts-Based Research Studio, University of...
Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays are plays about transformation in the western Canadian landscape: prairie, lake and woods. An element of the natural world is present in each play, not...
Nan Fewchuk, Karl Thordarson and Adam Charbonneau in Magpie; Photo by Janet Shum “Magpie” is my third play to be produced at FemFest, following ”Cowboy Boots and a Corsage” in 2003 and “Abby’s Place” in 2006....
“Art Lessons” is a short story first published in Alberta Views, Sept 2011. It is one of a cycle of stories tentatively titled Kaleidoscope about the development of a young girl, from childhood...
A stellar line-up of work has just been announced for FemFest 2011, our ninth annual festival celebrating female playwrights. We are particularly excited to be welcoming international guest artist Zena...
by: Fawnda Mithrush VUE weekly Francois Chevennement admits he was stunned to find out that most lifelong Edmontonians have no idea where the famed Strand Theatre once stood. “Everyone knows about it...
Inspired by an unsolved case in 1920s Edmonton, Murder at the Strand is an elegant, compelling story ballet set in the energetic era of vaudeville. Meet the suspects, study their motives and solve the crime!...
Food is Love will be produced at King’s Shorts Festival in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, in June 2011. Now in its fifth year, King’s Shorts Festival brings eight new plays to the stage. Food is...
The Seed Savers will be presented at the Station Arts Centre in Rosthern, SK, from July 1 to August 1, 2010, directed by Michael Clark, stage managed by Diana Domm, set by Hans Becker, sound design by Paul...
The Seed Savers “Whoever said that farming is the foundation of all the arts is quite correct. When all is well on the farms, all is well elsewhere.” –Xenophon in Oeconomicus, c. 370 B.C.E. My characters,...
THE GLOBE AND MAIL Katherine Koller’s farm visit yields a dramatic harvest A glimpse of fields sprayed silver with chemicals sparked a new play about a farm couple Marsha Lederman Published on Tuesday, Oct....
