Current & Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
-- "Playwriting: The Time is Now"
Talk by Jennifer Wynne Webber
7 - 9 p.m. at the historic "Marr Residence"
326 - 11th Street East, Saskatoon
Cost: $5 at the door
In a play, every moment is now. A play’s action occurs in the
present tense…in the presence of an audience. This talk by Jennifer
Wynne Webber will focus on how those two facts of the theatre inform the writing
of a play and offer a unique vantage point from which to view -– and
play with -– a story’s action and conflict. Suitable for aspiring
or developing playwrights, any interested writers of other genres -–
and anyone interested!
If you can, please let the Saskatoon Writers Coop know if you plan to
come by emailing workshops@writerscoop.org
-- but simply showing up at the door is fine too!
Sponsored by the Saskatoon Writers Coop for the Writers’ Smorgasbord series.
Recent News & Events: Readings & Performances
Thursday, January 17, 2008 -- Playwrights
Reading Series
8 p.m., Shu-Box Theatre, Riddell Centre, University of Regina
Jennifer Wynne Webber read selections from her most recent work.
Co-sponsored by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the U
of R - Theatre Department.
This reading was also made possible by the generous support of the Canada
Council for the Arts, the City of Regina, the Playwrights Guild of Canada,
and the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre.
Spring 2007 – Short story, Criatura, published in The Fieldstone Review (Issue No. 2, April /07), an annual, online literary journal based at the University of Saskatchewan.
March 27, 2007– World
Theatre Day Playwrights Reading
Jennifer Wynne Webber joined Pam Bustin, Mansel Robinson, and Kenneth Williams
for an informal evening of readings at Saskatoon's Hotel Senator (in Churchill's
Private Cellar) to celebrate World Theatre Day. This event was sponsored by
the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
March 12, 2006 -- Played Eve and Raphael in reading of Books 8 & 9 of Milton's PARADISE LOST. Marathon reading, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., University of Saskatchewan campus.
May 8-13, 2006 -- "WHISTLING AT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS" workshopped at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre's 2006 Spring Festival of New Plays at the University of Regina. Director: Susan Ferley. (Caitlin: Angela Christie; Marilyn: Cynthia Dyck; Martin: Lorne Duquette)
Nov-Dec, 2005 -- Played
"Emma Bard" in "REAL
ESTATE" by Allana Harkin
Centaur Theatre,
Montreal, Quebec
Director: Alison Darcy (with Bruce Dinsmore, Cary Lawrence, and Paul Hopkins)
Friday, May 13, 2005,
8 PM - staged reading of "PEACHES AND CREAM"
(Spring Festival of New Plays), Saskatoon
John Mitchell Building (Drama Bldg) University of Saskatchewan
Director: Rachel Ditor
("PEACHES AND CREAM" workshop runs May 11-May 13,
2005)
"PEACHES AND CREAM"
one-day workshop, Sat. March 19/05,( Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre)
Director/Dramaturge: Ben Henderson
"PICKING UP CHEKHOV"
by Mansel Robinson (Staged reading, Spring Festival of New Plays)
Saturday, May 15, 2004, 8 PM, ShuBox Theatre, University of Regina
Director: D. D. Kugler; Jennifer Wynne Webber as "Starr, " a sports
celebrity, with Robert Benz, Emma Davison-Roy, Rob Roy, Jade Groat, Pam Bustin,
Alan Long, Cavan Cunningham, and Katie Bowes.
"MEMENTO MORI"
- Workshop of new play by Jennifer Wynne Webber with staged public readings
at the University of Alberta. Director: Brenda Finley with Caroline Livingstone
(Marilyn), Tiffani Mann (Caitlin), and Sheldon Elter (Martin)
Saturday, February
7th, 2004 - 8 PM (Corner Stage, Fine Arts Building (FAB) U of A campus
Sunday, February 8th, 2004 - 2 PM (Corner Stage, Fine Arts Building (FAB)
U of A campus
"GOLD ON ICE"
The Musical (A Celebration of the Sandra Schmirler Curling Team)
by Geoffrey Ursell.
July 23-25, 2003 - Moose Jaw, SK (at Moose Jaw's Festival of Words)
July 26-August 3 -
Biggar, SK
(Jennifer played
Joan McCusker, with Monte Gagne as Sandra Schmirler, Lorna Batycki as Marcia
Gudereit, Louisa Ferguson as Jan Betker, and Julia Jamison as musical director,
and multiple roles including the God of Curling!)
Produced by Dancing Sky Theatre, Meachum, SK. Directed by Angus Ferguson.
May 2003 - "GOLD
ON ICE" The Musical (A Celebration of the Sandra Schmirler Curling Team)
by Geoffrey Ursell, Dancing Sky Theatre, Meachum, SK. ("Joan McCusker").
With Monte Gagne, Melissa Hande, Julia Jamison & Deborah Buck.
May 20, 2003 - Jennifer read "Sabine" with author Nick Bantock (ALEXANDRIA), Saskatoon (McNally Robinson Bookstore)
October 17 - November
18, 2002 - THE WEIR, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver.
Directed by Susan Williamson.
Jennifer played "Valerie", with Henry Woolf, James O'Shea, John
Huston, and Stephen Dimopoulos.
July 3 - August 18, 2002 - Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan (Jennifer played "Gertrude" in HAMLET and "Dol Common" in "THE ALCHEMIST")
May 13, 2002 - New Book
Launch - Spring Festival of New Plays, Regina, Saskatchewan
(Staged readings from recently published plays including the latest releases
from Connie Gault and Mansel Robinson.
Actors Kathryn Bracht and Cavan Cunningham performed scene from Jennifer Wynne
Webber's BESIDE MYSELF)
May 14, 2002 -
Jennifer performed in staged reading of Madeleine Dahlem's play, "Almost
Home"
Spring Festival of New Plays, Regina, Saskatchewan (Riddell Centre)
April 4 & 5, 2002 - "Beside
Myself," Trinity Western University, Freedom Hall, Langley, B.C.
(Directed by Andrea Dergousoff)
March 28, 2002 - Over The Edge - Globe Theatre, Regina (Playwrights have three hours to write plays for the Globe Theatre's wacky "theatre season in a day.")
Sept 24, 2001 - "Beside Myself" launch & reading, McNally Robinson bookstore, Saskatoon.
Sept 26, 2001 - Launch of "Beside Myself", McNally Robinson - Grant Park, Winnipeg. (with Adam Pettle, launching "Zadie's Shoes.")
Sept 29, 2001 - Playwrights Panel, Winnipeg International Writers Festival (http://www.winnipegwords.com), Forks Market, Travel Idea Centre Theatre
July 4 - August 19, 2001 - Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival - Jennifer Wynne Webber played in two Shakespearean comedies: "Merry Wives of Windsor" (as Mistress Page) and "Love's Labour's Lost" (as Jacquenetta the country wench & Katherine)
Writers' Studio - Fiction, Banff Centre of the Arts (April - June, 2001)
April 23, 2001 - Canada Book Day Readings - "First Novels by First Novelists" (with Shelly Leedahl and Dave Margoshes)
March 30, 2001 - Over The Edge - Globe Theatre, Regina.
Saskatchewan Book Award Nominees Reading, McNally Robinson Bookstore, Nov. 14, 2000
Reading, Chapters Bookstore (110 Bloor St. W) Toronto,
Ontario, Nov. 8, 2000
(with fellow Coteau authors Leona Theis & Blanche Howard)
Oct. 23, 2000 - Defying Gravity nominated for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Book of the Year, First Book (Brenda Macdonald Riches Prize), and Award for Publishing (http://www.bookawards.sk.ca/)