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Bevin Dooley (she/they/elle) is a playwright and dramaturg. Selected works include Nyctophobia/Here There Be Night (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre); IN CAMERA (parts&labour/CGAS/ Found Festival); and Slack Tide (Blarney Productions/part&labour/ Edmonton Fringe Festival). Readings of her work have been presented at SkirtsAfire, Script Salon, and the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival. Bevin has worked as a dramaturg with Alberta Musical Theatre Company, the University of Alberta New Works Festival, NextFest Festival of Emerging Artists, and Alberta Playwrights’ Network. In addition to their theatre work, Bevin is currently expanding the ways they tell stories to include filmmaking and prose fiction. She resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

SELECTED PLAYS

Aperture
In development, supported by Caravan Farm Theatre National Playwrights Retreat (2023) and Imago Theatre (2023 -2024)

The Burning Chamber
In development, supported by Imago Theatre (2023 -2024) and the Canada Council for the Arts (2021)

The Drowned
Runner-up in the 2022 Write-on-Q Competition: developed with support from Infinithéatre (2022), Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre (2019), SkirtsAfire Arts Festival (2018)

Nyctophobia (part of Here There Be Night)
Developed and produced by Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre in partnership with Theatre Yes, Catalyst Theatre, Theatre Network, and Northern Light Theatre (October 2020)

IN CAMERA
Produced by parts&labour and presented at the Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Festival (2019); development supported by Edmonton Arts Council (2020), Theatre Yes (2019) and Alberta Playwrights’ Network’s RBC Emerging Artist Mentorship Program (2017)

Slack Tide
Nominee: Outstanding Fringe New Work (Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards 2018); produced and developed by parts&labour and Blarney Productions (2017); presented at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (2017)

Deadstock
Winner of the 2016 Alberta Playwriting Competition Novitiate Prize; developed with support from The Lir National Academy for Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin (2015) and Alberta Playwrights’ Network (2017); public readings at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival (2015) and Script Salon (2017)

SELECTED DRAMATURGY 

Shoe Peak ‘96
Written by Michelle Robb; developed with support from Alberta Playwrights’ Network (2021)

In The Middle of the Day
Written by Katy Decoste; public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2020)

Rien A Faire
Written by Jordy Weins; developed through the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2019)

FUMBO
Written by Mukonzi Musyoki; presented as a public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2018)

Headhole
Written by Claudia Kulay; presented as a public reading at the University of Alberta New Works Festival (2018)

Fossegrim & Nøkk
Book by Megan Dart, music and lyrics by Leif Ingebrigsten; presented by Alberta Musical Theatre Projects at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (2018)

OTHER PROJECTS

SLPWLK (short film)
Writer, director, cinematographer & editor; created as part of FAVA Main Course (2022)

DAISY, DAISY (short film)
Writer, director, cinematographer & editor; created as part of FAVA Video Kitchen (2021)

WALK by Liane Faulder
Actor; Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (2018)

The Author Will See You Now
Performance Installation created for Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Festival (2017)

ACCOLADES

Infinithéâtre Write-on-Q Competition
Second place for The Drowned (2022)

Edmonton Arts Council Edmonton Artist Trust Fund
Award Recipient (2019)

Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards Nomination
Outstanding Fringe New Work for Slack Tide (2018)

Alberta Playwriting Competition
Winner of Novitiate Prize for Deadstock (2016)

RESIDENCIES & RETREATS

Nested Circles
Imago Theatre
Montréal, QC, October 2023/24

Creators’ Circle
Imago Theatre
Montréal, QC, 2023/24

National Playwrights’ Retreat
Caravan Farm Theatre
Armstrong, BC, 2023

Found Festival Fresh AiR Artist-in-Residence
Common Ground Arts Society
Edmonton, AB, 2019

FORMAL EDUCATION

Concordia University
Microprogram in Screenwriting and Film Production
Montréal, QC, 2023

The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin Master in Fine Art: Playwriting
Dublin, Ireland, 2014 - 2015

University of Alberta
Bachelor of Arts: Major in Drama, Minor in English
Edmonton, AB, 2009 - 2013

TRAINING/WORKSHOPS

Climate Change Verbatim Theatre Workshop
Yvette Nolan & Joel Bernbaum
Montréal, QC, 2024

Dreaming Climate Consciousness
Evan Medd
Online/Calgary, AB, 2023

TV Writing for Playwrights
Rose Napoli
Online/Toronto, ON, 2022

Main Course Winter 2022
Katie Cutting at FAVA
Edmonton, AB, 2022

Video Kitchen Fall 2021
Myles Belland and Holly Mazur at FAVA
Edmonton, AB, 2021

Rattle Your Own Cage: Devised Theatre Techniques for Text-Based Playwrights
David van Belle for Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre
Edmonton, AB, 2021

4-Day Devised Theatre Intensive
Ghost River Theatre
Calgary, AB, 2019

Complicité: Collaborative Creation
Banff, AB, 2017