Lucky Charm

LOUISE CASEMORE is an artist advocate, prairie nuisance, and two-time Sterling Award winning playwright. Based in Alberta on Treaty 6 and 7 Territory, she is the recipient of the ATP/Enbridge Playwright’s Award, was shortlisted for the inaugural John Palmer Award from the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, and is a 2023 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund honoree. Original plays include OCD (Canadian tour), Functional (Found Festival, IGNITE!), GEMINI (Chinook Series, High Performance Rodeo), and Undressed (Alberta Theatre Projects). Louise remains active in the wider community by way of dramaturgy, teaching, and sector research; and in 2021 she released the long-range national study on new play development, “Surveying The Landscape” (commissioned by Alberta Playwright’s Network). She is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, LMDA, the Citadel Theatre Dramaturgy Lab, and recently completed an MFA in Theatre Practice with a specialization in Playwriting for Immersive Theatre from the University of Alberta.

Beth Graham is an actor, playwright, and dramaturg. As a playwright, Beth has received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award (twice), the Carol Bolt Award, and, in 2015, her play, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble, was a finalist for the Governor Generals’ Award. As an actor, Beth has worked across the country and toured internationally. As a dramaturg, Beth has worked with the Albert Playwrights’ Network, Thou Art Here Theatre, and the Brian Webb Dance Company. Recently, Beth was the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta, as well as the dramaturg in residence at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre.

Jake is an Edmonton-based theatre artist with a passion for creating new and engaging work collaboratively. He graduated from the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta and is currently in the midst of his PhD in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores’ University. Also a graduate of Red Deer College’s Theatre Performance and Creation program, Jake has worked as an actor, director, creator, and educator in central Alberta. Jake has taught workshops for The Citadel Theatre’s Foote Theatre School and Grindstone Theatre, as well as guest instructing at Augustana University. Jake was previously employed as Theatre Alberta’s Program Coordinator and the Program Manager at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. Jake recently received the AFA Young Artist Prize and is the current General Manager at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre.