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Content Warnings

• Coarse language
• Adult themes
• Themes of trauma and violence
• General horror content (references to danger/death, monsters, transformations)
• Mentions of domestic violence, homelessness, generational trauma

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Emilia Fox Hillyer
Host

Originally from Massachusett and Wampanoag land, colonially known as Eastern Massachusetts, Emilia is a first-generation settler on Treaty 6. She is the proud recipient of five (or six, tough to keep track) ear surgeries performed by ENT surgeons all over so-called Northeast Florida. Nowadays, Emilia is a performer, puppeteer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of pUbeRtykiDs and Boston’s Fork & Shoe Theatre Cooperative. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta.

Photo Credit: Jamie Harmon

Artist Adopted by

The Tragedy of Knowledge
by Ruth Alexander

The Tragedy of Knowledge is a play with songs that follows three women after more than forty-five years of friendship. As long-buried secrets surface, their bond is tested across generations—between friends, mothers and daughters—revealing how time reshapes love, loyalty, and truth, and how music offers a path toward healing.

This is the third full length script by Ruth Alexander. Her first play ‘Dead in the Water’ ran at the Varscona Theatre in 2023 and again at The Edmonton Fringe in 2025 where it enjoyed five star reviews. She is excited to continue her journey as a writer and is very grateful to SkirtsAfire for this opportunity to share a small slice of this new work.

SKINS: IX Requiem
by Kijo Gatama (she/her)

A Jamaican restaurant in our kitchen. Our first rebellion. Our blood.
SKINS: IX Requiem ruptures from Kijo’s film SKINS, wearing the skins of those who made us. This is a live adaptation of a new skin taking shape.

Playwright/Performer: Kijo Gatama
Light Design: Amy Dass
Sound Design: Atenea

Caw CAW!
by Mhairi Berg

Three girls. Each convinced she was the only one. Each fed the same lies. Now, deep in the backcountry, they’ve set the perfect trap to make him face the truth. But as the wilderness closes in and their secrets begin to splinter, girlhood becomes both shield and weapon. Will their bond hold – or will the weight of what they carry pull them apart?

A play by Mhairi Berg
Featuring Mel Bahniuk as Viv, Kristen Padayas as Jess, and Dayna Lea Hoffmann as Anna
Directed by Brett Dahl

Artist Adopted by
Bernadette Gasslein

Dido’s Coat of Many Colours
A New One-Act Play by Danielle LaRose
she/her/elle

Dido was a Queen and a refugee. Exiled from her kingdom of Carthage, she brought her people thousands of miles from home and helped them build a new one. A home fashioned from scraps of guile and patches of gumption, stitched together with tenderness and unwavering courage. Now, a prairie mother follows the example set by this ancient Queen as she sets about creating a new life for her and her three daughters- one UHAUL box at a time.

Written and Performed by Danielle LaRose
Co-Created with Elizabeth Grierson and Brann Munro

(Girl) Lover
by Bailey Bieganek

Coming to terms with your sexuality in college can be quite the ordeal. Coming to terms with being bi when your gay awakening happens to be a close friend, who also happens to be the ex of ANOTHER close friend, is some other kind of catastrophe waiting to happen. This is where my poetic series, (Girl) Lover, begins, but is most definitely not where it ends. This is a series of nine poems about three different women in my life and how my love for them is and has been a part of my journey to loving myself and my sexuality.

I’m Bailey Bieganek, and I love writing poems, plays, and sometimes even poetic plays. You can catch me these days as the in-house Stage Manager at Jubilations Dinner Theatre here in Edmonton, and if I’m not there I am likely writing a play that focuses on sapphic women. None of which would be possible if I hadn’t first had the crises of feelings that inspired the poems that make up (Girl) Lover!

Artist Adopted by

Macabre
by Sara Campos-Silvius

Sara Campos-Silvius (she/her) is a queer, multiracial Latine artist and performer creating in prose, poetry, theatre, and film. She was an Alberta Playwrights’ Network IBPOC Playwright in Residence and her work has been featured in the Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Expanse, Found Fest, Springboards, Connections//Collisions, and many more. She has also been a member of the integrated disabled performing arts group CRIPSiE since 2013. Check out Sara’s work at www.saracs.art