Company History

Punctuate! Theatre was founded in 2010 and incorporated in 2012. The founding members of Punctuate! first collaborated at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. The company’s first few productions varied wildly from Howard Barker and George F. Walker to new clown and buffon shows such as Vice Versa and An Evening with Satan.

In 2012, Punctuate! became the resident company at a garage turned theatre called the TACOS Space. Punctuate! utilized the space as a Fringe BOYOV and as a performance venue for their 2012/2013 Punctuate! Performance series, which featured shows from five emerging performing arts companies from across Alberta.

The 2013/2014 Performance Series featured two co-productions with emerging companies and two pieces produced by Punctuate! Theatre. In 2014, Punctuate! received a Sterling award for Outstanding Independent Production for their co-production of East of Berlin with the East/West Collective.

In 2015, Punctuate! Theatre produced George F. Walker’s entire Suburban Motel Series. The series featured a cast of 14 actors, and a total company of over 45 artists. In 2016, they produced Hannah Moscovitch’s This is War, and in 2017, they created and produced Matthew MacKenzie’s new family friendly dino-musical Bone Wars: The Curse of the Pathological Paleontologists.

Production History

2019

• After the Fire by Matthew MacKenzie (with Alberta Aboriginal Performing arts in association with The Theatre Centre)

  • Alberta Tour - Saddleback First Nation, Maskwacis First Nation, Canmore (artsPlace)

• Bears by Matthew MacKenzie (with Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts)

  • Victoria @ The Belfry

  • Toronto @ Factory Theatre

  • Western Canadian Tour - Wells BC, Kamloops BC, Canmore AB

• Blood of Our Soil by Lianna Makuch (Pyretic Productions in association with Punctuate! Theatre)

  • Toronto @ Tarragon Theatre Extraspace

• The Particulars by Matthew MacKenzie

  • Toronto @ The Theatre Centre

  • Edmonton @ La Cité Francophone

• Three Ladies by Lady Vanessa Cardona (Workshop - Remix the Ritual in association with Punctuate! Theatre)

  • Edmonton @ Fringe Theatre Adventures Spotlight Series

2018

• Bears by Matthew MacKenzie (with Alberta Aboriginal Performing arts in association with The Theatre Centre and Native Earth Performing Arts)

  • Toronto @ The Theatre Centre

  • Tour - Saddleback First Nation, Maskwacis First Nation, Calgary (Downstage Theatre), Canmore (artsPlace)

• Blood of Our Soil by Lianna Makuch (Pyretic Productions in association with Punctuate! Theatre)

  • Edmonton @ The Westbury Theatre

2017

• Bone Wars: The Curse of the Pathological Paleontologists by Matthew MacKenzie

2016

• This Is War by Hannah Moscovitch

2015

• The Suburban Motel Series by George F. Walker

2014

• The Silence Project by Julie Ferguson, Liz Hobbs, Elliott James, Andréa Jorawsky, & Sheiny Satanove

• Dirt by Ron Chambers

• Solo Studies: Translations co-produced with Entrelancement Dance (Performance Series)

• East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovtich co-produced with The East/West Collective

2013

• A Clown Show Double Bill featuring Sofa So Good by Small Matters Productions & The Lost n' Lost Department by The PIE Factory Collective (Performance Series)

• s/kin by The Mindhive Collective (Performance Series)

• This Displace by Ainsley Hillyard & Shatter State by Alison Kause presented by the Good Women Dance Collective (Performance Series)

• Vice Re-Versa by Andréa Jorawsky, Adam Cope, and Elliott James

2012

• An Evening with Satan by Elliott James

• The Juvyline Cubangbang Show by Jake Prins presented by The Blue Sky Theatre Emporium (Performance Series)

2011

• Judith by Howard Barker

• Vice Versa by Adam Cope & Elliott James

2010

• The End of Civilization by George F. Walker