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Artistic Director Christine Lesiak

• READ: The Pulse: A comedy lab for clowns and street performers rises from pandemic ashes (2025)
• READ & LISTEN: Profile Edmonton Arts Council interview (2024), I AM YEG ARTS: CHRISTINE LESIAK | CBC Radio Active audio excerpt: A local clown who loves science

• LISTEN: Stageworthy podcast (2023): YouTube | Website

• READ: The Globe and Mail: Five questions with Edmonton clown specialist Christine Lesiak

The Spinsters

• READ: The Edmonton Journal (2024)
  • REVIEW: The Spinsters turns Cinderella on its head, Liane Faulder
  • PREVIEW: STAGE NOTES: Weaving a fantastical retelling of Cinderella’s stepsisters on stage, Liane Faulder
• READ: from Liz Nicholls at 12thNight (2024)
  • REVIEW: The ‘bad bitches who bought the palace’: The Spinsters, a little review
  • PREVIEW: Did Cinderella’s Ugly Stepsisters get a bum rap? They’re out to prove history wrong in The Spinsters
• READ: REVIEW on Finster Finds (2024): Sometimes it’s hard to be nice… 

• LISTEN: Interview with Christine Lesiak & Tara Travis on Stageworthy podcast (2023): YouTube | Website

• READ: Vancouver City News (2023) – The Spinsters! brings Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters to life on stage in new, dark comedy

• READ: Vancouver Sun – 5 Things to do Nov 16-22 (2023)

• LISTEN: Interview with Christine Lesiak & Tara Travis on Vancouver Co-op Radio Arts Rational podcast (2023).

FOR SCIENCE!

• WATCH THE TRAILER: YouTube

• LISTEN: For Science!’s Christine Lesiak & Ian Walker interview on CKUW’s Eat Your Arts & Vegetables with Derek Brueckner (30 mins, July 2023)

• READ Quesnel Cariboo Observer: Scientific method acting at Sunset Theatre (2023)

• READ CBC Winnipeg: On the Fringe: 5 shows at the 2019 Winnipeg Fringe that push the boundaries(2019)

• READ CBC Winnipeg: The party winds down: Top picks for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival’s closing weekend (2019)

• READ Edmonton Journal: Fringe favourites: Journal reviewers recap the 2019 Fringe Festival shows, performances that resonated (2019)

• READ REVIEWS:
• The Edmonton Journal (2018)
• 12thnight.ca (2018)
• The Edmonton Journal (2019)
• Beer Tent Reviews (2022)

• LISTEN: Christine Lesiak on The “All Day Breakfast” Podcast talks FOR SCIENCE!

The Space Between Stars

• WATCH THE TRAILER: YouTube | Instagram

• READ the PREVIEW from Liz Nicholls at 12thNight: On a journey through the universe: The Space Between Stars headlines SkirtsAfire 2023

beautiful and affecting…Intricate technology married to exquisite simplicity. I felt lucky to see it

Liz Nicholls, 12thNight.ca

• LISTEN: Radio INTERVIEW with CKUA’s Tony King

• READ the PREVIEW from Liane Faulder at the Edmonton Journal: The Little Prince adaptation leads this year’s SkirtsAfire lineup

• READ the PREVIEW from The Gateway’s Xander Laird: The Space Between Stars: Christine Lesiak’s journey from physicist to playwright