Living Edge

06/27/2025

An absolute joy designing A Moonlit Night for Thousand Islands Playhouse annual fundraiser! The talent on tonight was electric. Many of the design elements were low power draw, rented, and reusable if purchased. We utilized the event to rebuff inventories with insight of the upcoming season. backdrop is a second life drop from our design of Nine (SLC) with a new layer of artwork skillfully blended in by Scenic Painter Tillie Morgan. Shifting a Venetian skyline into London. Ice Sculpture by Ice Guys was a dream of the decor team, remarkably crafted 6’ tall using some 6 ice panels. Umbrellas were modified in such a way they can be return to be used by patron services and branded for future swag. It was a blast jamming with this team!

05/25/2025

Fatuma Adar as Joan 1, in our new adaptation of (Saint) Joan. Last December Living Edge launched. We move slow. But what comes is always worth the tectonic shifts we support in the industry and community. Pictured here is Costume Designs by JB Nelles, Sound by Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski and Stage Management by Heather Bellingham. A team of courageous technicians and creators all around. We are checking the barometers, and a front is on the way. We have announcements to tease, and looking for some producing support to make these plans even more exciting. If interested in helping us out, reach out we’d love to talk!

03/16/2025

As spring begins to tickle the grass tips, us at Living Edge are looking back and taking stock of our year so far. Upcoming we have designs heading to the East Coast, sprinkled through the Thousand Islands, and as far north as Thunder Bay! We'll give you a sneak peak of the process coming up! We have to apologize about being bad at this social media thing, we've been very busy rallying and getting involved in local politics that we put the front facing of the company on hold for a few months. We will be back so stay tuned :D.

01/20/2025

Did the new year get silly busy for everyone as well?! We’ve been thrown into the mix of many exciting new projects at other companies and haven’t taken the time to thank everyone for your support of (Saint) Joan! So a big thank you for coming and supporting our initiatives bringing premiering work and new workshops of shows, grown in the Frontenac arch biosphere! Thank you!! Photo by Seanna Kennedy of the cast of (Saint) Joan, costume design by JB Nelles and sound design by Adrian Gawinski, stage managed by Heather Bellingham and Frank Mulder.

12/12/2024

Hey all! Just an update from our workshop -- making a whole new adaptation is hard work-- our run time of a lightly staged reading is now confirmed at 90 minutes. So if your worry of a long runtime may have held you back from participating, rest those worries friends! Also our content warning is available here if you want to make sure this is okay for you :).

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2024Thank you for joining us for our workshop public presentation of a new adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.Adapted by Maja Ardal, Fatuma Adar, Heather Bellingham, Clarke Blair, Avery-Jean Brennan, Starr Domingue, Germaine Konji, Frankie Mulder, JB Nelles, Jo Pagnan, A...

12/09/2024

Join us for a workshop presentation of Living Edge Theatre's adaptation of (Saint) Joan, originally by George Bernard Shaw. Link in bio!

Adapted by Maja Ardal, Fatuma Adar, Heather Bellingham, Clarke Blair, Avery-Jean Brennan, Starr Domingue, Germaine Konji, Frankie Mulder, JB Nelles, Jo Pagnan, Amelia Sargisson, Adrian Shepherd Gawinski.

Directed by Jo Pagnan
Assistant Directed by Avery-Jean Brennan
Stage Managed by Heather Bellingham
Assistant Stage Managed by Frankie Mulder
Production Managed by Jeff Braunstein
Assistant Production Managed by Grace Delamere
Sound Design by Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski
Costume Design by JB Nelles

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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11/23/2024

The architects of our Saint Joan - the design team. Our costume designer!

JB Nelles JB Nelles (they/them) is an emerging set and costume designer based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). They are very excited to be joining Living Edge for their debut season of Winter. With a special interest in scenography, design, sustainability and ecosystems, JB hopes to grow and cultivate a practice that supports their fellow collaborators, the stories they wish to tell, and the places where we get to tell them. Past credits include: Set and Costume Design for The Wild Rovers (Smile Theatre), Costume Designer and Head of Wardrobe for Legally Blonde, Pinocchio, Next to Normal, and Sirens of Song (Stephenville Theatre Festival), Associate Set and Costume Designer for The Turn of the ScrewI (Opera 5), Associate Set and Prop Designer for La Bete (Talk is Free), Assistant Set and Costume Designer for Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot (Eldritch Theatre), Set and Prop Designer for (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) (VideoCabaret, Crow’s Theatre). JB has held teaching appointments at York University where they supervised the Scenic Art and Prop making Practicum Students (2023-2024), and speaking engagements at Queen’s University.






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for the Arts.
Thank you for supporting
truly inspiring projects.

11/21/2024

The architects of our Saint Joan - the design team.

Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski is an actor, composer, and sound designer based in Toronto. He especially loves to participate in the development of new plays, like The Hooves Belonged to the Deer (with Tarragon Theatre, as an actor), King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild (with Soulpepper Theatre, as a sound designer) and Easy as Pie (with James & Jamesy, as a co-writer and composer). He has never personally used his powers of charisma, negotiation and military tactics to install a dauphin in the throne of a major nation, but he imagines he would make a decent showing of it if the occasion presented itself. Adrian is the winner of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for sound design. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.



We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thank you for supporting truly inspiring projects.

11/19/2024

Introducing the indomitable Joans of our Saint Joan project. Dec 13/14 Link in Bio

Starr Domingue is a multi-hyphenate artist, scholar and educator, with 20+ years on stages and screens across the Caribbean, the United States, Europe and Canada. Selected stage credits consist of having been an original Toronto company member of Hairspray, the stage musical and the feature film of the same name. She has been featured in multiple productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’ including the 30th Anniversary Broadway National Tour culminating in a resident directorship for the European tour and years performing at Canada’s two major repertory companies, the prestigious Shaw Festival and the world famous Stratford Festival, where you may have recently seen her as Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles and Bea in the seasons critically acclaimed production of Something Rotten.

A graduate of Sheridan's Musical Theatre Performance program, Starr recently also achieved her Masters in Theatre while simultaneously performing in the musicals Room and Dixon Road for Mirvish Productions and The Musical Stage Company, respectively. She followed that up with an award nominated role in The Musical Stage Company’s Retold and was in The Crow’s Theatre’s Dora award winning production of Red Velvet. Starr has also written an original one woman musical style cabaret show entitled I’m the Greatest Starr (but no one knows it) which focuses on her musical theatre career in Canada.

Selected television credits include Hudson & Rex, Foursquare's Fourtone, Oddsquad's Puppy Master and the upcoming features No Boundaries and A Change in Heart.

She is also the creator/producer and host of the digital talk show, The Blacktor's Studio: an online interview series highlighting the journey of actors of Colour who grace the Canadian stage.



We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thank you for supporting truly inspiring projects.

11/17/2024

Introducing the indomitable Joans of our Saint Joan project. Dec 13/14 Link in Bio

An Iceland-born Canadian, Maja Ardal was schooled in Scotland. She is a playwright, performer, theatre instructor, the former artistic director of Young People's Theatre, and a core member of Contrary Company. She wrote Midnight Sun, produced by Tarragon Theatre and the National Arts Centre, and published by Playwrights Canada Press. Over her thirty-seven-year career she has directed at the Shaw Festival, the Grand Theatre, and Alberta Theatre Projects among others. For her illustrious career, Maja was the recipient of the 2002 George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in the Theatre. Maja is playwright-in-residence at Nightwood Theatre, and has written The Cure for Everything, a sequel to You Fancy Yourself.



We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thank you for supporting truly inspiring projects.

11/17/2024

Calling all artists in the Brockville area!

📢 Calling local artists!

We need art to fill our walls this December for a themed gallery exhibit. Your prompt is Winter Blues. This can be imagery depicting how you feel in the winter, how you find brightness and warmth during these shorter, colder days, or anything else that connects to the theme - feel free to add your own interpretation.

Submit your name and a brief description of your artwork to [email protected] to be considered.

11/17/2024

Hey all! We are on the road this week, you can spot our work at The Capitol Theatre - Port Hope - Christmas Panto opening this weekend.

There is a naughty and nice!

Eco fun facts in this design: we have used the town sky line in the design showcasing some famous locations where locals work that have changed our fairy telling scene across the globe. Ecologically, the set uses all FSC lumber where new wood was required. It is the first Capitol show built entirely in house! (no secondary shipping waste!). We have partnered with local artisans to share bespoke, and we mean bespoke, furniture not in stock, and 50% of the design came from reclaimed flattage from earlier in the season! Now, it isn't just the incredible jokes to bring a smile to our face.

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