Event

Out at School

OUT AT SCHOOL is a verbatim theatre piece based on interviews conducted with Ontario LGBTQ families about their experiences in schools. To date, our team of artist researchers has completed 37 interviews with families living in four different cities in Ontario and the suburbs and rural communities that surround them. The interviews are available at www.lgbtqfamiliesspeakout.ca The piece created Gailey Road for Toronto Pride 2019 contains 22 scenes of verbatim monologues and dialogues, a set of visual images to accompany the scenes, and three original songs which draw on a number of themes embedded in the monologues. In each verbatim monologue and dialogue, the words of the people who were interviewed have been transcribed, edited, arranged, and re-contextualized so they can be performed on stage.

The Team

ACTORS
Brendon Chandler
Sandakie Ekanayake
Alanis Ortiz Espinoza
Max Cameron Fearon
benjamin lee hicks
Tsholo Khalema*
Jorie Morrow*
Yasmin Owis
Ryan Singh
Charlotte Stewart
Amaka Umeh*
Ty Walkland

PLAYWRIGHTS
Pam Baer
Tara Goldstein
Jenny Salisbury

DIRECTORS
Pam Baer
Jenny Salisbury

VISUAL ARTIST
benjamin lee hicks

COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN
Kate Reid

AUDIO AND VISUAL DESIGN
David Fisher

STAGE MANAGER
Edil Gaal

PUBLICITY
Tianyue Ma
Briar Wells

VIDEOGRAPHER
Adam Lee

* Appears with the permission of the Canadian Actors Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy.

The team would like to acknowledge and thank our funders The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; The Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant at the University of Toronto; The New College Initiatives Fund Student Life Grant at the University of Toronto, the University of Toronto Summer Work-Study Program, and the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education for providing us access to the beautiful Nexus Lounge.