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FRAT
Namesake Theatre
Brotherhood isn’t free.
FRAT is a bold new drama delving into power, masculinity, and group morality within the secretive world of American fraternities.
In a world where loyalty is everything, four young men navigate the pressures of tradition, identity, and belonging—uncovering the unspoken rules that shape them and confronting what it truly means to be part of the pack.
TEAM
Playwright | Max Allen
Director | Olivia Woods
To be presented Spring/ Summer 2025 at Old Red Lion Theatre,
Prague Fringe (theatre),
Edinburgh Fringe (theSpace @ Surgeons Hall), &
Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe (Lion and Unicorn Theatre)
Fantasizing Phryne
Utopia Syndicate
We’ve seen her likeness since Antiquity, a figure reimagined in some of history’s most iconic paintings, but in this kaleidoscopic performance, Phryne comes to life - real, human, live and gorgeous - to confront the rumors and take center stage.
Within a playful structure, Fantasizing Phryne speaks to bigger questions of sex work, women’s bodies, and myth making, revealing both the story of this incredible figure, and her life-saving tits.
TEAM
Written and directed by
Olivia Woods, Alessandra Tom, Madison Jolliffe
Performer | Madison Jolliffe
To be presented June 2025 at Arena Festival, Erlangen, Germany
Dead Animals
KB Production
Jesse returns to the cottage he grew up in with a photo and cardboard box. The land is just as he left it, and his grandmother is brash as ever, but why did it take him so long to come back?
This autobiographical dreamscape is Stong's love letter to his eccentric grandmother. A queer story, fast-paced and surprisingly hilarious, it offers a devastating insight into how we cope with grief.
TEAM
Playwright | Jesse Stong
Director & Dramaturg | Olivia Woods
Producer | Kit Bromovsky
Dead Animals World Premier at Edinburgh Fringe
TheSpace @ Surgeons' Hall - Theatre 1
August 11th -24th
The One
Hopegrown Productions
Emily has one week to find The One, for in a week she will be thirty. Can retracing her Grandmother's fairytale love story help Emily hack app dating before the hourglass runs out? ...or has her true love been right in front of her all along?
TEAM
Performer & Playwright | Miriam Cummings
Director & Dramaturg | Olivia Woods
Freestanding Room, Montreal, Canada
2022
Does It Really Happen
Teesri Duniya Theatre
Community activist Masoon Balough sheds light on the nuances of domestic relationships in South Asian communities by sharing her journey to leave one.
TEAM
Performer & Playwright | Masoon Balouch
Director & Dramaturge | Olivia Woods
Teesri Duniya Theatre
2022
Never Walk Alone
Teesri Duniya Theatre
Exploring family dynamics, independence, legacy, isolation, burnout, and economics, the piece follows Honey and her trajectory from formerly-promising-child to bitter disappointment. This is an endurance pole dance piece that explores the relationship between physically holding oneself up on the pole and the necessity of holding truths and lies from our loved ones.
TEAM
Performer & Playwright | Julie Phan
Director & Dramaturge | Olivia Woods
Festival Accès Asie
2022
Voyage
Tableau d’Hôte Theatre
This larger-than-life project, never seen before in the Montréal or elsewhere, features musicians-beavers, a wacky boat crew, mythical sea creatures and giant puppets. The 9km journey is sure to offer a feast of sensations to everyone aboard.
TEAM
Director | Abi Stushnoff
Section 6 Director | Olivia Woods
Lachine Canal, Montreal, Canada
2022
En Pointe
Tableau d’Hôte Theatre
A socially-distanced episodic series of bilingual short plays. Physically distanced and yet immersed in the world of the play, audiences will enjoy a unique theatrical experience imaginatively adapted to the unprecedented realities and restrictions of our times.
TEAM
Playwright & Director | Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Assistant Director | Olivia Woods
Point Saint Charles Montreal
2020
Young Creators Unit
Playwrights' Workshop Montreal
Artists from Playwrights' Workshop Montreal's Young Unit share excerpts of their work with an enthusiastic audience of peers, community leaders, and theatre lovers.
TEAM
Project Leader | Jess Stong
Playwrights | Camille Mankumah, Megan Hunt, Calder Lavine
Director & Dramaturge | Olivia Woods
Playwrights' Workshop Montreal Studio
2020 - 2022
Cosmonaut
Number One
National Theatre School Art Apart Broadcast
& Rubber Tree Media
This solo bio-drama will take you on a journey with the first man in space. Experience his world view change as he goes from Soviet loyalist to global icon. This is the rise and fall of Yuri Gagarin.
TEAM
Director | Olivia Woods
Performer and Playwright | Calder Lavigne
National Theatre School #ArtApart Broadcast
2020
Encore
Tableau d’Hôte Theatre
While still in the throes of young love, a couple pledge to return to the site of their first meeting ever year in order to reenact word-for-word their faithful encounter. How do we love? Or rather, how don’t we love? Encore blends comedy, poetry and insight in a manner that is a far cry from the cynicism of our time. It dares to speak of true feelings, the ones that shake us to our core.
TEAM
Director | Liz Valdez
Playwright | Marc Prescot
Assistant Director | Olivia Woods
Mainline Theatre
2019
Blue Stockings
Persephone Productions
Set in the late Victorian era of 1896 at Cambridge University, Blue Stockings follows the story of four young women fighting for self-determination and the right to receive higher education against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage in Britain.
TEAM
Director | Gabrielle Soskin
Assistant Director | Olivia Woods
Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal
2019
Riot Ballet
An immersive, interactive theatre/game event. As The Riot Ballet progresses, a narrative emerges in fragments: the government works hard to make citizens feel heard and represented… but do their polished messages mask corruption and authoritarian motives? Protestors emerge to challenge the government. The show culminates in a (safe but spectacular) burgeoning riot, where your actions in the moment determine just how intense the riot will become.
TEAM
Co-created by Jump Current Performance (Canada), Working Group Theatre (USA), and La Barracuda Carmela (Colombia)
2019
Heat Death
of the Universe
Concordia University
Politically charged, sci-fi immersive theatre following a married couple and their god during the end of the world. Audience members slowly take on the role of refugees within the narrative, highlighting the hypocrisy of settler nations.
TEAM
Co-Creators | Olivia Woods & Rahul Gandhi
Cazalet Theatre
2019
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