By Coleen Shirin MacPherson, Playwright/Director of Erased and Artistic Director of Open Heart Surgery Theatre  My play Erased, which premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto in 2024, was selected to take part in the prestigious Heidelberger Stückemarkt in Germany this May 2026. When I received the news, I was immediately Continue Reading

In April/May of 2023, myself and several of my York University peers were selected for a workshop of Coleen Shirin MacPherson’s Erased as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s BUZZ series. Since then, I have been involved in the piece as it has grown, shifted, and made its professional debut in Continue Reading

In 2023, I was invited to intern with Open Heart Surgery Theatre as they workshopped Coleen Shirin MacPherson’s play Erased through Theatre Passe Muraille’s Buzz In-Development Series. The play employs physical language to communicate the way capitalism and authoritarianism shape the bodies of its inhabitants, and, further, how these workers Continue Reading