SIMON BRACKEN

BIOGRAPHY

Simon's most recent foray with Punctuate was as "Gordon" in The Particulars, which played in Toronto and Edmonton last fall. His own piece, titled "what that is ours remains intact" premiered at the Rhubarb Festival, and was slated for a summer 2020 production. Previous acting credits include performances with the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Stratford Festival, the Coal Mine Theatre, Shakespeare in the Ruff, and Carousel Players.

PLAY DEVELOPMENT

Vita Nova

"Vita Nova", improbably, is a play in the vein of 1970s American absurdist melodramas, set in the middle of the second decade of our current century, at the confluence of the housing crisis and opioid epidemic in Toronto. A woman who can't tell the truth is trying to reconcile both her fictitious and real pasts to her unfortunate present. For good measure, she also needs to solve a murder. Fast.