2026-27 Season Announcement!
Common Ground Arts has been growing new projects and programs for 15 years. Today we get to share our 2026-27 Season with you, featuring new and developed work from artists across Canada!
Join us this year for…
The RISER New Works Festival is the new culmination of RISER Edmonton, Common Ground’s producer training and project development program. May 29-31 in the Backstage Theatre, we’ll be sharing work-in-process performances of our four current RISER projects ahead of their premiere runs at festivals throughout Edmonton in 2027. We will also present a workshop performance of D’orjay Jackson’s Postal Prophets, our 2025-26 RISER festival artist!
Enjoy showings of:
Postal Prophets by D’orjay Jackson
A musical play set in a distant and dystopian future on planet Ared’baan, chronicling the aftermath of a great war between the humanoids of Nation Firstile and a sentient intelligence information system.
(be)Longing by Philip Hackborn
An exploration of one experience of being multiracial east Asian through adaptation of folktales; a fight to find oneself by always returning to the beginning, the beginning, the beginnings.
The Light of Other Skies by Liam Monaghan
The little-known love story of Canadian architect Arthur Erickson and his partner, interior designer Francisco Kripacz.
Click here for all of the Festival info.
Tickets are on sale today.
The RISER New Works Festival is possible thanks to the support of the Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Edmonton Fringe Theatre.
We’re so excited to announce our 2026 Found Festival lineup — featuring multi-disciplinary site specific performances from artists across Canada.
We are also proud to feature work by our Fresh AiR Artists-in-Residence who have been developing new performances with Common Ground Arts:
SKNHEAD
A group of inner-city kids search for belonging, only to find themselves drawn into groups that lead to insidious ends.
SKNHEAD was developed by Shyanne Duquette through our 2025-26 Fresh AiR Artist Residency.
A group of inner-city kids search for belonging, only to find themselves drawn into groups that lead to insidious ends.
SKNHEAD was developed by Shyanne Duquette through our 2025-26 Fresh AiR Artist Residency.
Goalie Play
A goalie and his drummer. A severe injury which puts a career, and lifetime, into question. One man, one act, on ice.
A work-in-progress reading Fresh AiR Artists-in-Residence Alex Ward and Alexander Voutchkov, with collaborator Nicole Maloney.
A goalie and his drummer. A severe injury which puts a career, and lifetime, into question. One man, one act, on ice.
A work-in-progress reading Fresh AiR Artists-in-Residence Alex Ward and Alexander Voutchkov, with collaborator Nicole Maloney.
Our 2025-26 Fresh AiR Artist, Shyanne Duquette, will present the next iteration of their gripping play, SKNHEAD. 2026-27 Fresh Air Artists Alex Ward & Alexander Voutchkov will present a workshop of their new script, Goalie Play.
Our 2026-27 Found Projects:
Wahkohtowin Club x Tamarack Cunningham
Ambrose Cardinal & Tamarack Cunningham
A collaboration of storytelling expressed through music, art, ceremony and creativity.
Untitled (clock piece)
Susannah Haight & Tia Kushniruk
a 12 hour long durational performance, of a clock made of flesh, bones, rock, and dirt
Labo[u]r
Skye Grinde
An experimental movement engagement with the gendered labour that is engaged in in pursuit of textile procurement.
Mass for Shut-Outs
Tanya Davis
A poetic take on Sunday service, exploring enduring questions through a queer, critical, and comedic lens.
Hysteria’s House
Sophie May Healey
An interactive one-woman dark comedy about femininity, gothic literature, music, romance, scandal, and the morbid curiosities that won’t leave us alone.
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We Quit Theatre
A Google Doc performance for an audience of anonymous animals. Not all men are men. Welcome to the movies!
Tickets for Found 2026 will go on sale in June, with members getting presale access.
Found Festival 2026 is possible thanks to the support of the Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Edmonton Community Foundation, and Edmonton Fringe Theatre
The Common Ground Prairie Mainstage Series enters its second year! We are proud to be a destination for some of the most innovative and exciting new works of theatre from prairie artists.
We want to see a thriving touring circuit where artists from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have flourishing opportunities to develop and present work here on the prairies. In our Prairie Mainstage Series, we present work from here at home and across the prairie provinces to build new relationships for artists and audiences across our region.
Our 2026-27 Prairie Mainstage Series features two extraordinary works: Tiny Bear Jaws’ moving dystopian pop concert I Don’t Even Miss You and We Quit Theatre’s bold drag performance lecture i am your spaniel.
I Don’t Even Miss You
A one-person dystopian pop concert which asks how identity, legacy, and love can exist with no one to perceive them.
A Tiny Bear Jaws Production presented by the Common Ground Arts Society.
A one-person dystopian pop concert which asks how identity, legacy, and love can exist with no one to perceive them.
A Tiny Bear Jaws Production presented by the Common Ground Arts Society.
i am your spaniel; or, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare by Gislina Patterson
The last production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream you’ll ever need to see.
A We Quit Theatre Production
The last production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream you’ll ever need to see.
A We Quit Theatre Production
Edmonton audiences will remember I Don’t Even Miss You from RISER 2022, where the show was developed. We are so excited to welcome We Quit Theatre to Edmonton to share i am your spaniel with new audiences. Our 2026-27 season features two stories of transformation, love, and connection using bold multi-media spectacle. We can’t wait to share with you!
Tickets for our 2026-27 season will go on sale later this summer.
The Prairie Mainstage Series is possible thanks to support from the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Government of Canada, and Edmonton Fringe Theatre.
Our 2026-27 Season is a special one: this season will mark the end of Mac Brock’s five years with Common Ground Arts Society over a transformative period (the debut of RISER Edmonton and the Prairie Mainstage Series)! Rainier Pearl-Styles and new Artistic Producers, Hayley Moorhouse (Season) and Salem Zurch (Found) will take the helm and continue to build on Common Ground’s legacy of radically inclusive, boundary-pushing art. Our 2026/27 season features so much that Common Ground has been working towards since we started 15-odd years ago and we really can’t wait to share it with you.
Our 2026-27 Season is supported by
