addpunctuationworkshop started in 2006 as addpunctuationtheatre, when I first took part in the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.  Its first production, selves, reached a small audience at the festival, but placed as one of two runners up for the Harry S. Rintoul Award for that year. Follow up productions …your company/table for… (2007), and three, there (2009) reached increasing numbers. In 2016, I workshopped and produced post, a rewrite of which was later featured at Manitoba Association of Playwright’s Open Door on 10 minute plays. This play documented my experience of postpartum anxiety, and someday may be turned into an audio performance. In addition, several short pieces have been showcased at Theatre By The River’s pre covid fundraiser, Wine and Words, including in line at the planetarium, a poem for 4 voices, and WTF, a short infomercial on proposed education reform.

In 2017 I transferred schools in my day job as a secondary theatre teacher. This has allowed me to teach playwrighting and production to a wider age range of students. Our production process is to decide on an idea, theme or source text, and then write and workshop at various levels of collaboration, dependant on the group. At a base level, in early table reads, students make the script sound less like “an old lady”, while other scripts features original scenes and/or monologues students wrote in writing groups. These titles include, It’s Kinda Like Dating, based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Matchmaker/Heartbreaker, based on Jane Austen’s Emma, Love and Lollipops, an original script co written by covid-era Drama students, Alice in Wonderland, written as a promenade theatre piece set in a modern high school, and The Note, an original script.

You can find a full list of plays and their synopsis on the scripts page.

addpunctuationknits began after the birth of my first child in 2012. If my creative pursuits have always been an outlet for my anxiety, knitting, and now spinning yarn, are a way to filter off some of the nervous energy that lives in my body when I can’t sit with myself and write. There are just so many humans around! I’ve gotten good enough that I can let my hands go and keep my brain on conversation without spiralling into overthinking.

I work primarily with natural fibre, wool and alpaca, sometimes blended with silk. The knits page will contain a gallery of completed knits that have no homes yet, as well as some earrings I like to noodle with when I can’t deal with a big project. The spins page will have handspun skeins that are not currently committed to a project. If you are interested in rehoming any knits or commissioning a one of a kind creation of some sort, reach out and we can make plans.