Welcome to the Prairie Mainstage Series! Tickets coming soon.
About I Don’t Even Miss You
Using pop songs, dance, and video, I Don’t Even Miss You is a bold exploration of technology, resilience, love, and legacy that asks how gender, identity, and family can exist with no one to perceive them.
Written and performed by Elena Belyea (winner of the 2023 Betty Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical for their performance in Verb Theatre’s WE’RE GONNA DIE) with music by Belyea and Tori Morrison, and directed by Emma Tibaldo, this is the fourth stop on Tiny Bear Jaws’ national tour of their refurbished I Don’t Even Miss You.
Know Before You Go!
PLAIN LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION: I Don’t Even Miss You is a one-person show with projections and music, created and performed by Elena Belyea, with music by Elena Belyea and Tori Morrison, and directed by Emma Tibaldo. The character of non-binary computer programmer Basil performs an autobiographical play about their life with their digital assistant Orchid, after Basil discovers everyone else on earth has disappeared.
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE: Audiences will sit in a theatre and watch the play, which includes music and projections.
AGE RATING: 14A (Click below for more information.)
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Sensory Content: Loud music, projections/video (may be difficult for audience members with vision sensitivities).
Discussed/Suggested Content: Abandonment, loss, past suicide attempts, self-harm, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, sex, masturbation, gender dysphoria.
Depicted Content: The character begins a suicide attempt with pills (and brings a handful of pills to their mouth, but doesn’t swallow or ingest them), then decides otherwise.
VENUE ACCESS NOTES:
I Don’t Even Miss You is located in the Studio Theatre inside the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns. All of the building is accessible step free, and the entrance is located on the west side of the building, directly south of Orange Hall. Keep an eye out for Common Ground signage that will point the way! Paid parking is available throughout the immediate area, the closest being the parking lot north of Knox Church. Free street parking is available on 84 Avenue, and throughout the area. The facility has wheelchair-accessible gender neutral washrooms.
Cast and Creative Team!
Elena Belyea Writer, Performer, Music Co-Creator, Producer, Video Contributor
Emma Tibaldo Director and Dramaturge
Tori Morrison Sound Designer, Video Designer, Composition, Music Co-Creator, Producer
Andrea Handal Rivera Stage Manager
Steven Sobolewski Additional Touring Stage Manager
Mac Brock Associate Producer and Captions Designer/Operator
Gianna Vacirca Choreographer
Ainsley Hillyard Assistant Choreographer
Liv Bunge Touring Technical Director and Production Manager
Jacon Eckenroth Technical Director and Production Manager (Edmonton 2026)
Whittyn Jason Lighting Designer
Even Gilchrist Set Designer
Sarah Emslie Premiere Production Assistant Director and Understudy
Miranda Martini Music Support
Vanessa Sabourin Voice of Orchid
David Walker Captions (Transcription and editing)
Lauren Acheson Caption Design (Premiere Production) and Premiere Production Technical Director
Connor Yuzwenko-Martin Deaf/Captions Consultant (Premiere Production)
Singing and Vocal Support from Adrianne Salmon and Doug Mertz
Acting Coaching by August Winter & Geoffrey Simon Brown
Brush-Up Rehearsals Facilitation by Geoffrey Simon Brown
Special thanks to Claren Grosz, Factory Theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, David Walker, Outside the March, Kristina Belyea, Sarah Elkashef, Aki Matsushita, Sasha Dion.
I Don’t Even Miss You was developed with support from Verb Theatre, Canstage, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Gros Morne Playwriting Residency, the Common Ground Arts Society, the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
I Don’t Even Miss You is supported by:
