Current & Upcoming Events
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July - 8, 2011: Sage
Hill Teen Writing Experience
Jennifer will lead 14 promising
young writers in this year's Teen Writing Experience to be held at
the Frances Morrison Public Library.
This year's keynote speaker will be Mary Harelkin Bishop. Funded by the City
of Saskatoon, the Saskatoon Public Library, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and
Sage Hill.
Recent News & Events: Readings & Performances
May 23-28, 2011: Spring
Festival of New Plays
The
Saskatchewan Playwrights
Centre held its annual flagship event in Saskatoon this year. It featured
seven plays by seven playwrights, some of this country's finest workshop actors
and leading directors from across the country. As SPC Dramaturge, Jennifer
was thrilled to work with each and every one of them -- includinge the wonderful
Stephen
Heatley, this year's guest Festival Dramaturge.
September 9th, 2010: Staged
Reading of "Whistling at the Northern Lights"
Urban
Stages Theatre, Off-Broadway, New York
259 West 30th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
Staged reading directed by
Urban Stages Artistic Director Frances Hill featuring renowned Broadway actors
Susan Louise O'Connor & Susan Greenhill. Urban Stages is an award-winning
Off-Broadway theatre that has recently produced Canadian playwrights Stephen
Massicotte (The Oxford Roof Climbers' Rebellion) and Daniel MacIvor (Marion
Bridge).
Jennifer gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for
the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board for being able to attend the New
York event. The Saskatchewan Arts Board also provided development support
during the writing of an early draft of Whistling at the Northern Lights.
September 14- October 5, 2010: Weaving
Words: Stories of the World
Jennifer led a writing workshop designed for newcomers to Canada and currently
living in Saskatoon and area. Sessions ran Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00
p.m. on from Sept. 14-Oct. 5, 2010 at the Global Gathering Place.
Presented by the SWG and the Global Gathering Place with generous grant
support from Saskatchewan Lotteries and the City of Saskatoon.
Sunday, September 26th:
Word On The Street
1 pm, Outdoor Stage – Saskatoon Farmers' Market.
Line up of writers: Eekwol; Arthur Slade; Deborah Ellis; Charles Hamilton;
Jennifer Wynne Webber
May 16-26, 2010: Playwrights
Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) Colony.
Sackville, New Brunswick. Took part in PARC colony on exchange as visiting
Saskatchewan playwright while GG-winning Halifax playwright Catherine Banks
took part in the Saskatchewan
Playwrights' Centre's Spring Festival of New Plays.
May 27, 2010: UBC Convocation.
Jennifer's MFA in Creative
Writing is now officially done like dinner. University of British Columbia.
June 21- 25, 2010: Weaving
Words: Stories of the World
Jennifer led an introductory writing workshop designed for women newly arrived
in Canada and currently living in Saskatoon and area. A moving & celebratory
reading concluded the workshop on Friday June 25.
Presented by the SWG and the Global Gathering Place with generous grant
support from Saskatchewan Lotteries and the City of Saskatoon.
Novel
Kick-Starter
July 27 to 31, 2009, St. Peter's College - Muenster, SK
Join Jennifer for a five day writing retreat designed to help you launch
a new novel.
Is there a story you’ve always
longed to tell? Something you just can’t get out of your mind –
a character, an event, a setting? Whatever your reasons, if you feel inspired
to begin a novel, this course is a great way to kick things into action and
begin your journey. Who's eligible? Anyone wishing to work on a novel. Any
age level. While this retreat-style course is perfect for the first-time novelist,
it is also entirely suitable for those more experienced writers who wish to
kick-start a new project.
For more info or to apply, please visit: Novel
Kick-Starter.
For more details on all St. Peter's College 2009 Summer Workshops, visit the St. Peter's College "Writing in Practice" Summer Workshops webpage.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 -- "Playwriting:
The Time is Now"
Talk by Jennifer Wynne Webber at the historic "Marr Residence"
In a play, every moment is now. A play’s action
occurs in the present tense…in the presence of an audience. 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...
Sponsored by the Saskatoon
Writers Coop for the Writers’
Smorgasbord series.
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 9-13, 2006 -- "WHISTLING AT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS" workshopped and presented as staged reading 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)
May 11-13, 2005, 8 PM - "PEACHES AND CREAM" workshopped and presented as staged reading at Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre's Spring Festival of New Plays, at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Director: Rachel Ditor (Josie: Angela Christie; Lois: Amy Matysio; Mrs. Kisby: Sharon Bakker; Betty Friedan: Christine MacInnis; Bob Loomer/Ralph/Hank: Matt Burgess; Walter/Tommy: Tim Hilldebrand)
"PEACHES
AND CREAM" one-day workshop, Sat. March 19/05,( Saskatchewan
Playwrights Centre)
Director/Dramaturge: Ben Henderson
Acted in "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
Acted in "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 - Played "Valerie" in THE WEIR by Conor McPherson, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. Directed by Susan Williamson. (with Henry Woolf, James O'Shea, John Huston, and Stephen Dimopoulos.)
July 3 - August 18, 2002 - Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan. 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 -
Performed in staged reading of "Almost Home" by
Madeleine Dahlem.
Spring Festival of New Plays, Regina, Saskatchewan (Riddell Centre)
April 4 & 5, 2002 - Production
of "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 - in two Shakespearean comedies: "Merry Wives of Windsor" (Played Mistress Page in "Merry Wives of Windsor" and Jacquenetta & Katherine in "Love's Labour's Lost."
April - June 2001 - Writers' Studio - Fiction, Banff Centre of the Arts
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. (Playwrights have three hours to write plays for the Globe Theatre's wacky "theatre season in a day.")
Nov. 14, 2000 - Saskatchewan Book Award Nominees Reading, McNally Robinson Bookstore, Saskatoon.
Nov. 8, 2000 - Toronto Book Launch/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/)