{"id":6159,"date":"2020-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/art-apart-talk-to-me\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:00:00","slug":"art-apart-talk-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/art-apart-talk-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Apart: Talk to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watch the Facebook Live on June 10 at 9PM, EAST<\/a><\/h2>\n

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<\/strong>About the project<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Talk to Me<\/em> is an original, live, lo-fi site-specific radio play \u2013 broadcast for free on Canada\u2019s oldest radio station, CRFC 101.9. A call-in sex and dating advice show, Talk to Me<\/em> is a comedic exploration into intimacy, liveness, and exposure through the means of radio broadcast. Tune into the full show at FOLDA.ca<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n

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Cellar Door Project\u2019s Talk to Me <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by Sean Meldrum<\/strong>
Dramaturged and Directed by Wallis Caldoza<\/strong>
Produced by Mariah Horner<\/strong>
Starring Mariah Horner<\/strong> and Sean Meldrum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented at FOLDA<\/strong>, produced with CFRC 101.9FM. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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This project received financial support from the National Theatre School of Canada via the Art Apart program<\/a>, an emergency fund for emerging artists who are affected by physical distancing due to coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/em><\/p>\n

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About the artists<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mariah Horner<\/strong> (actor and producing <\/span>lead) is<\/span> an artist based in Kingston, Ontario. Selected credits <\/span>include:<\/span> assistant directing Unholy<\/em> (GCTC, upcoming), directing Hana Hashimoto: Sixth Violin <\/em>(Thousand Islands Playhouse, 2019), assistant directing Behaviour<\/em> (GCTC\/<\/span>SpiderWebShow<\/span>, 2019). She has worked as Digital Content Producer with <\/span>SpiderWebShow<\/span> and <\/span>foldA<\/span> for the past three years. She is the Festival Director of CFRC’s Shortwave Theatre Festival and helmed Kingston’s Storefront Fringe Festival from 2016-2018. Co-founding the Cellar Door Project with Devon Jackson in 2013, Mariah has produced 15 original site-specific works. Mariah played Kate Unger in George F. Walker\u2019s HBO Canada series Living in Your Car<\/em> and graduated with an MA in Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy from the University of Ottawa in 2017. She has been published by <\/span>SpiderWebShow<\/span>, Visit Kingston, Canadian Theatre Review, the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. She is also currently co-writing a book about Participatory Performance with Dr. Jenn Stephenson. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sean Meldrum<\/strong> (playwright and actor) is a Canadian theatre artist, filmmaker, and musician. Credits as a writer include Gnaw<\/em> (Theatre Mies, Toronto Fringe, 2016) and From the Thunder <\/em>(True Perspective, 2019). Selected credits as an actor include Delusion<\/em> (Out There Creative, 2020) and Judith Thompson\u2019s HotHouse<\/em> (Original Cast, Theatre Kingston, 2015). Over the past year, Sean\u2019s short film From<\/em> the Thunder<\/em> screened at festivals across the world, winning Best Short Film at the Florence Film Awards, and his experimental piece I Am Like The Moon<\/em> premiered at the Squat Betty Avant Garde Film Night in London, England. He is a playwright-in-residence with The Cellar Door Project and the in-house screenwriter for Toronto film production house, True Perspective. His play, The Diagnosis<\/em>, was shortlisted for the Newmarket International Playwriting Competition. For his performance in Cakewalk, he was the recipient of the Focus Film Festival\u2019s 2016 Award for Best Actor. In 2019, he was the recipient of the George Brown Opportunity Award for his work in Sound Design. Voices is his seventh collaboration with The Cellar Door Project. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wallis <\/strong>Caldoza<\/strong> (dramaturg and performance lead) is a dramaturg and artist-researcher pursuing her PhD in the Social Justice Education Department at OISE at the University of Toronto. Her research works at determining how to prevent Othering in tertiary academic institutions using quotidian dramaturgy. Selected credits include: research as a graduate assistant for Dr. Kathleen Gallagher\u2019s SSHRC-funded project Audacious Citizenship (University of Toronto, 2019-2020), playwriting for Beyond the Bard (Driftwood Theatre, 2020), playwriting for Trafalgar 24 (Driftwood Theatre, 2019), postgraduate induction workshop facilitator (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), 2018), collaborative writer and scenographer for Armen <\/em>Avanessian<\/em> & Enemies #33 Corresponding with ghosts<\/em> \u2013 A staged reading with music on the legacy of debt (RCSSD and the Volksb\u00fchne Berlin, 2017 \u2013 2018), founder and facilitator of A Space: 48 Hours <\/em>at Queen\u2019s University (2017), dramaturgy intern at CAHOOTS Theatre (CAHOOTS Theatre, 2016 \u2013 2017), and stage manager of the Young Company\u2019s touring production of Violet\u2019s the Pilot <\/em>(The Thousand Islands Playhouse, 2016). Wallis also holds an MA, with distinction, from RCSSD for Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy and a BAH from Queen\u2019s University. <\/span><\/p>\n

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