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E R I C R O S EDirector/Creator/Playwright/Dramaturg /Educator
PERSONAL INFORMATION:Citizenship: CanadianProfessional Affiliations: Canadian Actors Equity Association
Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas
ARTISTIC DIRECTION:2015-PresentArtistic Director Full Season Ghost River Theatre Calgary
2009-2015Co-Artistic Director Full Season Ghost River Theatre Calgary
2001-Present Artistic Director Project Based Invisible Elephant Performance Calgary
2005-2007Artistic Associate AD: Dennis Garnhum Theatre Calgary Calgary Director/Curator FUSE: New Play Initiatives Theatre Calgary Calgary
2004-2005 Artistic Associate AD: Ian Prinsloo Theatre Calgary Calgary Director/Dramaturg Play Advancement Series Theatre Calgary Calgary
SELECTED DIRECTING, CREATION, PLAYWRITING & DRAMATURGY:2016*Co-Playwright GIANT (Workshop) GRT/Alberta Theatre Projects Calgary*Director/Co-Creator Window GRT/University of Calgary
Calgary*Director/Co-Adaptor Tomorrow’s Child GRT/High Performance Rodeo Calgary
2015Director/Co-Creator Taste GRT/River Café/Vertical City CalgaryDirector/Co-Creator A Date with the Night Globe Theatre ReginaDirector/Co-Playwright The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst GRT/Alberta Theatre Projects Calgary
2014Director/Co-Playwright The Highest Step in the World Persephone Theatre
Saskatoon Director/Co-Playwright The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Ghost River Theatre CalgaryDirector/Co-Adaptor Tomorrow’s Child GRT/Beakerhead/UofC
CalgaryCo-Director/Creator This Little Piggie Old Trout Puppet/Calgary Folk Fest CalgaryDirector/Co-Creator Little Red (Devised Workshop) Eric Rose/ Major Matt Mason CalgaryDirector/Co-Adaptor Tomorrow’s Child Ghost River Theatre
CalgaryDirector/Dramaturg The Huron Bride Vertigo Theatre CalgaryCo-Playwright The Program (National Elevator Project) Theatre YES /Canoe Festival Edmonton
2013Director/Co-Playwright The Highest Step in the World Gateway Theatre
RichmondCo-Playwright The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Ghost River Theatre CalgaryDirector ONE Belfry / Shadbolt Centre Victoria/BurnabyDirector The Kite Runner Theatre Calgary /Citadel Calgary/Edmonton
2012Director/Dramaturg Everything is Terribly Nice Here Ghost River Theatre Calgary
Eric Rose CV
Director Crime Does Not Pay (Musical Concert) Feast of Friends CalgaryDirector/Co-Playwright Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Workshop)
GRT/Rumble Productions VancouverDirector Travels with my Aunt The Montgomery Theatre North Rustico PEIDirector/Adaptor The Adding Machine (Devised) Central Memorial High-School CalgaryDirector/Co-Playwright Once Upon An Atom Bomb Greenfools Physical Theatre CalgaryDirector/Co-Playwright The Highest Step in the World Ghost River /Arden Theatre
St. Albert
2011Co-Director/Creator Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Workshop) GRT/Rumble Productions
CalgaryDirector/Co-Playwright The Highest Step in the World GRT/Pumphouse Theatre
Calgary Director/Co-Playwright Peril in Paris (Betty Award) Lunchbox Theatre
CalgaryDirector/Dramatrug ONE (Canstage Award for Outstanding Direction) SummerWorks Festival
TorontoDirector An Inspector Calls The Montgomery Theatre North Rustico PEIDirector/Co-creator REVERIE (Betty Nomination) Ghost River Theatre Calgary
2010Director/Dramaturg ONE (Betty Award) Ghost River Theatre CalgaryDirector/Dramaturg This Little Piggy (Workshop) Peter Balkwill CalgaryDirector/Dramaturg Forbidden Sacrifice Kathy Knowles Theatre Works Accra, Ghana Director/Co-playwright Peril in Paris (Workshop) Stage One Lunchbox TheatreDirector/Co-creator REVERIE (Workshop) Ghost River Theatre Calgary/MontrealDirector/Playwright Stream of Sand (Workshop) Green Fools Physical Theatre CalgaryDirector/Playwright Highest Step in the World (Betty Award) Ghost River Theatre/ATP playRites Festival Director/Dramaturg ONE RedtoBlue Productions Revolutions Fest New Mexico
2009Director Jake and the Kid Theatre Calgary Max Bell TheatreDirector/Co-creator Something to do With Death Invisible Elephant/ GRT CalgaryDirector/Playwright Highest Step in the World (Workshop) Alberta Theatre Projects playRites FestivalDirector/Dramaturg ONE Red to Blue Productions Canoe Festival Edmonton
2008Director/Dramaturg ONE (Workshop) Red to Blue Productions EdmontonDirector/Co-creator Something to do With Death (Workshop) Invisible Elephant Performance Calgary / RosebudDirector The Legend of Aku Sika Kathy Knowles Theatre Works Accra, Ghana Director/Playwright Highest Step in the World (Workshop) Banff Centre Playwrights Colony BanffDramaturg Crawdaddy’s Odditorium CHAOS Festival of Animated Objects CalgaryDirector Jake and the Kid (Workshop) FUSE:08 Theatre CalgaryDirector Joseph (Workshop) Scripts at Work Red Deer CollegeDirector When All is Said and Done (Workshop) Stage One Lunchbox TheatreDirector/Playwright Highest Step in the World (Workshop) Alberta Theatre Projects CalgaryDirector Our Town Theatre Calgary Max Bell Theatre
2007Performer/Dramaturg Jesus Pig (Workshop) Kristine Nutting / APN EdmontonDirector/Co-Creator Something to do With Death (Workshop) Invisible Elephant Performance Calgary/ RosebudDirector/Adaptor The Name of the Tree Kathy Knowles Theatre Works Jr. Accra Ghana Director /Facilitator Internet Fraud Plays Kathy Knowles Theatre Works Accra Ghana Director/Dramaturg Jake and the Kid (Workshop) FUSE:07 Theatre CalgaryDirector/Dramaturg Safe as Housewares (Workshop) Petro-Canada Stage One Lunchbox TheatreDirector/Co-Creator Clasped Expanse Festival EdmontonDramaturg Trio in Canon (Workshop) Scripts at Work Red Deer CollegeDramaturg Your Move (Workshop) Scripts at Work Red Deer College
2006Director Beard (Workshop) Alberta Playwrights Network Motel
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Eric Rose CV
Director/Adaptor The Black Cat (Site Specific) Invisible Elephant Performance Lougheed House CalgaryDirector/Producer The Guys (Site Specific) Theatre Calgary Calgary Fire DepartmentPerformance Creator Muscled Memories Art Gallery of Calgary
CalgaryDirector/Dramaturg Cowboy Poetry (Workshop) FUSE: 06 Theatre CalgaryDirector We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Reading) FUSE: 06 Theatre CalgaryAssociate Dramaturg The Wars (Workshop) FUSE: 06 Theatre CalgaryDirector/Designer Shackter the Musical Alberta Theatre Projects playRites FestivalAssistant Director Saint Joan (Dir: Neil Munro) Theatre Calgary Max Bell TheatreDirector/Co-Creator Yardies Nakai Comedy Arts Festival Whitehorse
2005Director A Christmas Carol Theatre Calgary Max Bell TheatreAssociate Dir/Dramaturg Dancing on Water Greenfools/Glenbow Museum Calgary Director/Co-Creator Yardies Sage Theatre Pumphouse TheatreDramaturg Nami Namersson… (Workshop) Play Advancement Series TC/Concrete Theatre Dramaturg Secret Life of the Octopus (Workshop) Play Advancement Series TC/Quest TheatreDramaturg Two Lip Tango (Workshop) Play Advancement Series TC/La Luna ProdutionsPerformance Creator STRUCK Invisible Elephant Performance Solocentric FestivalDirector/Co-Creator Small World (Site-Specific) Invisible Elephant Performance Tunnel Vision Site-Specific Fest
2004 Director Christmas Carol Theatre Calgary Max Bell TheatreDirector/Dramaturg Xray (Musical) Ghost River Theatre Vertigo Studio SpaceDirector/Dramaturg Touch (Inter-disciplinary Performance) Invisible Elephant Performance Random Acts, Solocentric Associate Director Counsellor-At-Law Theatre Calgary Max Bell TheatreDramaturg Adventures in the Rouge Trade Play Advancement Series TC/Kaleidoscope Dramaturg Russell’s World Play Advancement Series TC/MTYP
2003Director/Dramaturg I Flushed my Lover Down the Loo (Site-specific) Invisible Elephant Performance Toronto Arts WeekDirector Angélique Hart House Theatre TorontoDirector Peter Pan All Success Consulting South KoreaDirector/Dramaturg Pointy Ears, Hairy Warts… Invisible Elephant Performance Toronto Fringe Kid’s VenueDirector/Dramaturg Model Minority (Workshop) Project Just Being Poor Alex TheatreDirector Lion in the Streets Hart House Theatre Toronto
2002Intern Director Dream Machine One Yellow Rabbit CalgaryDirector /Creator The Lost Villages Project (Collective Workshop) Preface TheatreToronto
Director/Dramaturg Admission Red Cabaret Lula’s LoungeFacilitator Caledonia (Workshop) The Charlottetown Festival Studio TheatreDramaturg The Sorceress & The Sleep (Workshop) The Charlottetown Festival Studio TheatreDirector The Day I Sold Lingerie The Charlottetown Festival Outdoor Amphitheatre Assistant Director Anne of Green Gables (Dir: Anne Allan) The Charlottetown Festival The Festival Stage Assistant Director Gordon Lightfoot Show (Dir: Duncan McIntosh) The Charlottetown Festival
The Mackenzie Theatre Director/Dramaturg Cleaning Up New Ideas Festival Alumnae Theatre CompanyConsulting Director Stories My Body Told Me RESIDANCE TorontoDirector/Creator An Account Rhubarb! Festival Directing Lab Buddies in Bad Times TheatreAssistant Director Emma Zunz (Dir: Christopher Brauer) Rhubarb! Festival Buddies in Bad Times TheatreAssistant Director Mortality (Dir: Ross Manson) Volcano Theatre Centre
EDUCATION:2013Director Masterclass Crystal Pite and Pol Heyvaert /Theatre Replacement New Asethetics Vancouver
2012
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Eric Rose CV
Director Masterclass James Yarker (Stan’s Café – UK) Magnetic North/Ghost River Calgary
2008Green Fools Intensive Dean Bareham Green Fools Physical Theatre CalgaryButoh Intensive Claudia Wittmann Invisible Elephant Performance Calgary
2007International Director’s Masterclass with: Peter Hinton, Catherine Alexander, Charles Marowitz at the Magnetic North Festival Ottawa2005NaCl Performers Retreat Ker Wells, Tannis Kowalchuk, Brad Krumholz North American Cultural LaboratoryCatskills New YorkDirecting for Designers Ian Prinsloo Theatre Calgary Calgary
2004Summer Lab Intensive Denise Clarke, Blake Brooker, Chris Cran One Yellow Rabbit Calgary
2002Director’s Intensive Richard Rose Equity Showcase Theatre TorontoDirector’s Lab Rhubarb! Festival 2002 (Kelly Thornton) Buddies in Bad Times Theatre TorontoNew Directors Program Duncan McIintosh The Charlottetown Festival Charlottetown
1997-2001Honours B.A. Theatre and Drama Studies Specialist Minors: English & Sociology University of Toronto Acting Diploma Joint Theatre and Drama Studies Program U of T & Sheridan College
Oakville
MISCELLANEOUS:2015-2016Company-in-Residence University of Calgary Window Project CalgaryPanellist Prague Quadrennial Canadian Exhibition Prague 2014-2015Playwright in ResidenceAlberta Theatre Projects The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Calgary
2013Panellist Banff Centre IDEAS Summit Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff
2012Producer Magnetic North Industry Series Mag North/Ghost River Theatre Calgary2007-2010Playwright in ResidenceAlberta Theatre Projects Highest Step in the World
Calgary
2008, 2009Playwright Banff Playwrights Colony Banff Centre for the Arts Banff
AWARDS & RECOGNTIONS: 2015Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Outstanding Production The Highest Step in the World Ghost River/Persephone Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Ghost River Theatre/ATPBetty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Ghost River Theatre/ATPBetty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Director Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Ghost River Theatre/ATPBetty Mitchell Award Nomination Outstanding Sound Design Tomorrow’s Child Ghost River TheatreBetty Mitchell Award Nomination Outstanding New Play Tomorrow’s Child Ghost River Theatre
2014Calgary Critics Award Best Technical Design Tomorrow’s Child Ghost River Theatre
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Eric Rose CV
Calgary Critics Award Nomination Best Original Concept Tomorrow’s Child Ghost River Theatre
2013Calgary Critics Award Nomination Best Play The Kite Runner Theatre Calgary/Citadel
2012Recipient of Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award Body of Work Government of AlbertaCanadian Institute for Theatre Technology for Technical Merit The Highest Step in the World Ghost River Theatre Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play Peril in Paris Lunchbox TheatreBetty Mitchell Nomination Outstanding Production of a Musical Peril in Paris Lunchbox TheatreFast Forward Readers Choice Award Nomination Once Upon an Atom Bomb Greenfools Physical TheatreCritics Choice Award Nomination Best Revival The Highest Step in the World Ghost River Theatre Named to Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 Body of Work Avenue Magazine
2011Canadian Stage Award for Outstanding Direction ONE SummerWorks TorontoBetty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production ONE Ghost River TheatreBetty Mitchell Nomination for Outstanding Director ONE Ghost River TheatreBetty Mitchell Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Musical REVERIE Ghost River TheatreFast Forward Readers Choice Award Nomination REVERIE Ghost River TheatreGwen Pharis Ringwood Prize in Playwriting Short List Highest Step in the Wold Ghost River Theatre
2010Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production of a Play Highest Step in the World Ghost River Theatre/ATPBetty Mitchell Nomination for Outstanding New Play Highest Step in the World Ghost River Theatre/ATPFast Forward Readers Choice Award Nomination Something to do With Death Ghost River Theatre
2007Emerging Artist Award The Mayor’s Luncheon for Business and the Arts Calgary
2004Betty Mitchell Nomination for Outstanding New Play Xray Ghost River Theatre
2002Training Scholarship Maud Whitmore Scholarships The Charlottetown Festival Confederation Centre
TEACHING:2015-2016Instructor/Director DRAMA 460 – Advanced Devising Theatre University of Calgary CalgaryInstructor/Facilitator 4-Day Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre Calgary
2014-2015Instructor/Facilitator 3-Week National Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryInstructor One Day Devising Intensive Globe Theatre Regina
2013-2014Instructor/Facilitator 3-Week National Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryInstructor/Facilitator 4-Day Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre Calgary
2012/13
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Eric Rose CV
Instructor/Facilitator 3-Week National Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryInstructor/Facilitator 4-Day Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post Secondary
2011/12Artist in Residence Central Memorial Performing Arts High Grade 10-12 CalgarySessional Instructor Introduction to Devising Theatre First Year Students Red Deer CollegeInstructor/Facilitator Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post SecondaryComedy Instructor Artstrek Theatre Alberta High-SchoolAdjudicator Calgary Region One Act Drama Festival Pumphouse Theatres Calgary Audition Workshop Morpheus Theatre Theatre Alberta Calgary
2010Instructor Devising Intensive Ghost River Theatre CalgaryPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post SecondaryAdjudicator Calgary High-School Drama Festival University of Calgary High-SchoolDevising Winston Churchill High-School Calgary Board of Ed High-School
2009Devising Performance PlayWorks Ink Theatre Alberta Professional DevelopmentImagination Machine Calgary High-School Drama Festival University of Calgary High-SchoolPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post SecondaryDevising Theatre Augustana University College Theatre Program Camrose Alberta
2008Guest Director First Year Practicum Mount Royal College First Year Acting StudentsSessional Instructor Drama 500 (Creation /Devising) University of Calgary Fourth Year Acting Students Creation Instructor Artstrek Theatre Alberta High-SchoolInstructor/Founder Creation Lab NextFest Edmonton Emerging ArtistsPerformance Creation Calgary High-School Drama Festival University of Calgary High-SchoolActing Coach SN@P! Calgary International Children’s Festival High-School /ElementaryPerformance Creation Faculty of Education University of Calgary B.Ed StudentsPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post Secondary
2007Guest Instructor 2nd Year Scene Study Mount Royal College CalgaryDirector/Facilitator Kathy Knowles TheatreWorks Maamobi Community Learning Centre Accra Ghana AfricaDirecting Instructor Artstrek Theatre Alberta High-SchoolPerformance Art Performance Art: Dick Averns Alberta College of Art & Design Post Secondary
2006Scene Study Workshop PlayWorks Ink Theatre Alberta Professional DevelopmentGet the Part PlayWorks Ink Theatre Alberta Professional DevelopmentLecture (Trying) Store Front 101/Theatre Calgary Mustard Seed Shelter CalgaryVarious Workshops George Wood Learning Centre Wood’s Homes Youth at Risk
2005Lecture (Macbeth) Store Front 101/Theatre Calgary Mustard Seed Shelter CalgaryVarious Workshops George Wood Learning Centre Wood’s Homes Youth at Risk
2004Audition Workshop Mount Royal College: Jane MacFarlane Drama Department 2nd year StudentsVarious Workshops George Wood Learning Centre Wood’s Homes Youth at RiskPhysical Character Calgary High-School Drama Festival University of Calgary High-School
2003Advanced Acting PEI Conservatory Faculty University of PEI Post Secondary StudentsActing Tutorials Hart House Drama Society University of Toronto Post Secondary Students
2002
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Eric Rose CV
Acting & Scene Study Charlottetown Festival Drama Camp Confederation Centre Intermediate: ages 12-19 Directing Master Class Tarragon OutReach: Kristen Van Alphen Tarragon Theatre
Educators
2001-2002Scene Study Technique/ Musical Theatre DepartmentCreative Improv Associate Faculty Member Sheridan College First Year Musical TheatreActing Workshops Animation Department: Ellen Basin Sheridan College First & Third Year Students
*Denotes Up-coming projects
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