Full Productions 2022
Xenobiology on Earth, by Aether
XENOBIOLOGY ON EARTH is a story about a young autistic teen named CASEY, who dreams of alien worlds and wants to learn more about them, but is stuck existing as a human on Earth with deadlines to meet and a loving yet non-understanding mother to please.
Aether (she/they) is a writer from unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories. She likes to write imaginative, genre-blurring fiction that humanizes the non-human or dehumanized. As an autistic, gender-questioning person, they have a divergent perspective on being human, which she hopes to share with the world through stories. Aether has been a UBC Creative Writing student since Fall 2021.
Plane and Simple,
by Jaenna Calingasan
PLANE AND SIMPLE is a ROMANTIC DRAMEDY about TWO AIRPLANE PASSENGERS on a FANTASTICAL AND TURBULENT PLANE RIDE who meet and automatically want each other from their mutual attraction. They both want REAL LOVE but can’t because they are STUCK NAVIGATING THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIPS BACK HOME.
Jaenna Calingasan is an actress, singer-songwriter, and now- a playwright. She is in her first year of the UBC Creative Writing Program where she wrote, “Plane and Simple.” Her credits include, “Miss Fortune” which won BEST FILM and BEST ACTOR in which Calingasan co-wrote, produced, and starred in.
The Lactation of Saint Bernard, by Robbie Dryer
The Lactation of St. Bernard" is a comedy about a new father trying to navigate his complex feelings about motherhood whose life is further complicated by prophetic visions
Robbie Dryer is currently in his first year of study for an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre at UBC. He is interested in playwriting, screenwriting, and short fiction. He is also a big fan of crosswords.
fried chicken, by Araceli Ferrara
fried chicken" is an emotional drama about mental health and grief, following a young woman as she processes her best friend's suicide attempt and comes to terms with her depression and suicidal past.
Araceli Ferrara is a Canadian theatre artist, currently pursuing a MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre at UBC. She graduated from York University in 2021, specializing in Dramaturgy and Devised Theatre with a minor in history. Born and raised in Toronto, she's the daughter of a refugeee and celebrates both her Chilean and Italian heritage.
What Remains, by Rile German-Martinez
“WHAT REMAINS” is a science-fiction drama centering on the final hours of Brigid Moreno, the captain and final survivor of a failed space exploration mission. Not only must Brigid face her mortality, but also the existential musings of the ship’s dying android, M1N3RVA.
Rilee German-Martinez is a third-year Creative Writing student at UBC. Their prose has been published in “Girls/Girls/Girls,” a charity LGBT zine, and the Coffee People zine in Seattle, WA. In 2018, their portfolio won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
Shitty Love,
by Jessica Kim
Shitty Love is a comedy about a posh woman who must endure a pathetic bank robber and an overly righteous man during a bank robbery and get out of the sticky situation before she succumbs to the most humiliating fate: shitting her pants with explosive diarrhea.
Jessica Kim is in her final year of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She is always delighted to be involved in theatre! Production credits include Albireo (Rushed Productions ltd), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Theatre Under the Stars) and Class is Cancelled (UBC Players Club)
Turkey,
by Katya Kirschmann
Turkey is a coming-of-age comedy about roommates Sara and Josie, who are attempting to host their first-ever dinner party after moving to university. This is complicated by high emotions, cheap wine, and difficulty separating their identities from the traditions with which they grew up.
Katya’s storytelling attempts to make sense of the strangeness that is life. They are new to the stage play genre (unless you count a terrible Jason and the Argonauts and The Muppets crossover written at age eleven). They have published creative nonfiction pieces in Ryga and The White Wall Review.
Skeletons,
by rj mcdaniel
Skeletons is a dramatic monologue about a 17-year-old girl in isolation at an inpatient psychiatric unit. Trapped alone with her thoughts, she is forced to confront the past and present events that have led her to where she is.
RJ McDaniel’s plays have been read at the Vancouver Playhouse and Arts Club theatres. Their debut novel is forthcoming from ECW Press.
Dante’s Door, by Carmen Morgan
Dante’s Door is about Sarah, a love-sick poetry major who wants to accompany her professor, Pete Gill, to the prestigious Griffin awards. In a pandemic age, they have only ever met on Zoom, and when she flies across the country to surprise him, Sarah and Professor Pete must make a hard decision.
Carmen’s love for writing for the stage comes from a need to see the world through the eyes of characters who can relay truths about the human condition. Carmen’s first play, Apricot Stones, was about a young revolutionary trying to survive in an underground network of women fighting for their rights in Kabul, Afghanistan. She wrote, produced and stage managed the play for the Edmonton Fringe Festival. She has also produced Hagar for community theatre, and written several 10 minute plays, including one that received Honourable Mention at EdmonTEN, a play competition for 10-minutes plays. She is currently working on a second draft of Meg’s Shell, a play about a homemaker who decides to join the 90s’ third wave of feminism by taking a job in a strip joint.
Cumulus,
by Rayne Weinstein
Cumulus is a short drama that follows Eliot, an academic with a rare disease, and his boyfriend Frankie, as they try to come to grips with the reveal that Eliot’s illness is terminal– as well as how it may be exacerbated by Frankie’s mere presence.
Rayne Weinstein is a Jewish writer who resides in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish peoples. Her short play Ripe was recently staged for the Brave New Play Rites 2021 festival and she was shortlisted for Room Magazine’s 2021 annual fiction contest.