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On the first day of our first trimester of the academy, d’bi.young anitafrika offered us an exercise: to sit with ourselves in a place of gratitude. Then, from that thank,…

I am Ahmed Moneka an actor, singer and now a playwright. I am a member of the 2021 Soulpepper Academy and I feel privileged to be part of this incredible group of artists….

I am so grateful. At times I have to shake myself lest I believe I’m in a dream. If you asked me this time last year if I’d be making…

Theatres have ghost lights for a reason. There was once a practical reality, of course, in keeping a dim glow in a place as trip-hazard-riden as a stage, but modern…

Walking, Thinking, Breathing, Rediscovering I’ve started going for walks again, like, really long ones. You know what I’m talking about. It’s been a while because things got busy and the…

I miss being asleep.  I miss going about my daily life, blind to the weight of the current moment.  The Black Lives Matter protests have awakened me.  I am awake…

SHARED EXPERIENCE Theatre is a shared experience. Every individual at a live performance somehow affects and changes the temperature of the room. If a play ‘works’, as we sometimes say, then…

Back in early June, I was asked to write a blog entry. At the time, I submitted the photo on the left, and some writing about how COVID-19 had been…