Our mandate is to produce works of theatre that inspire, challenge and captivate audiences. Our first production was To Hear With Eyes by Michelle Martin at Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit High Performance Rodeo. The company then presented Daniel MacIvor’s See Bob Run at One Yellow Rabbit and Workshop West Theatre in Edmonton. In 2012, Egg Theatre presented John Patrick Shanely’s Four Dogs and a Bone
at Havana Theatre in Vancouver, BC. Michelle Martin’s new original one-woman show, i carry your heart with me, will be presented at the 2023 Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver Fringe Festivals. Michelle Martin is an actor, playwright and producer who has worked extensively across Canada in theatre, film & television. Michelle is the co-founder, producer and Marketing & Communications Director for Classic Chic Productions, a theatre company dedicated to producing all-female versions of the classics, based in Vancouver. She played Antigonus in Classic Chic’s inaugural production of The Winter’s Tale and enjoyed a career highlight playing Ricky Roma in their acclaimed production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross directed by Rachel Peake. She then played Tom Hagan in Corleone: A Shakespearean Godfather at Pacific Theatre. Selected theatre credits include The Way You Carry On at the 2019 Revolver Festival, Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone (Egg Theatre), See Bob Run and To Hear With Eyes (One Yellow Rabbit, Workshop West), Les Liaisons Dangereuses and A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), The Importance of Being Earnest and Fool for Love (Theatre Junction), Cressida (Workshop West), Misalliance and Night Must Fall (Shaw Festival), 1-900-Dee-Lite (Persephone Theatre), All in the Timing (Summer at the Roxy), Hitting Town (Alchemy Theatre Projects), Cymbeline (Shakespeare in the Rough), Twelfth Night (U of T, Graduate Centre for Drama) and Summerfolk (Equity Showcase Theatre). Film/TV credits include Christmas in Evergreen, The Wedding Dance, The Good Doctor, Lost in Space, Frequency, Dead of Summer, The Romeo Section, The Whispers, Gracepoint, Supernatural, A Novel Romance, Accidental Obsession, and two seasons as a series lead on the CBC evening drama, Riverdale. Michelle is a graduate of York University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program.
