Ensemble Theatre Company

Watch Us! Presented by ETC as part of Us Festival 2021, our film festival week celebrating Black filmmakers kicks off TODAY! Watch our festival selections here: https://buff.ly/3sqreS0 #UsFestival2021 #BlackHistoryMonth #filmfestival #online

Face Value, an experimental short from poet Marisa Gold and director Mitch Bax, is an #UsFestival2021 Official Laurel Selection for our Film Festival week, starting February 25th, 2021. Journey with our poet to discover that beneath a monochromatic interpretation of society's perspective, we can find individuals with colourful depth in their soul. #BlackFilmmakers #BlackHistoryMonth

"It's only the blessed who live and die where they're born." Presented as part of Us Festival's film festival week starting February 25th, 2021, SOS from Ethiopian Filmmaker Daniel Negatu, is an Official Laurel Selection for #UsFestival2021. SOS is an experimental mini documentary based on the extraordinary life of an Ethiopian refugee rescued from the sea in Madagascar and now living in Canada. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackPeoplesMonth #BlackFilmmaker

An Uninvited Guest from Black Canadian Filmmaker Richard B. Pierre is an #UsFestival2021 Official Laurel Selection for our Film Festival week, starting February 25th, 2021. When a Black man is viciously assaulted by police right outside their window, all of the guests at a dinner party seem to consider the attack unremarkable except for one. #AnUninvitedGuest #BlackFilmmaker #artsfestival #onlinefilmfestival

Do you see Us? Presented by ETC as part of Us Festival 2021, our film festival week celebrating Black filmmakers kicks off this Thursday with films from the diaspora, and original films from Black Canadian filmmakers. #UsFestival2021 #artsfestival #online

Behind the scenes filming Legacy. "Inspired by real events, Legacy is meant to educate and empower, raising awareness about what migrants go through and the risks they take to support their families. Legacy is an independent international film from Us Festival curator Mariam Barry, available online through February in celebration of Black Peoples Month. Stream on ETC's website here: https://buff.ly/3rLM262 : Nathan Yan #UsFestival2021

Coming Soon from ETC: Us: A Black Peoples Month Festival! Presented by ETC and curated by Black artists Adrian Neblett and Mariam Barry, Us: A Black Peoples Month Festival is a free to access online arts festival in celebration of Black Peoples Month (aka Black History Month). The festival features theatre, films, podcasts and staged readings from the diaspora. Us reminds us that we belong as we celebrate what was, what is and what could be. New releases every Thursday, Janua...ry 28th-February 25th. Free to access through ensembletheatrecompany.ca Watch our page for more details! Poster by Annabelle Irakiza/@_bellaillustrations

On top of his nominations as described in the Jessie Awards' post, Anthony is also one of our cast members in Superior Donuts! Superior Donuts is nominated for Outstanding Production (Play), Small Theatre. A huge congrats to Anthony and the rest of our Superior Donuts cast, as well as all the other ETC members on the nominations list-- Our fingers are crossed for everyone! Tune in at 7pm TONIGHT (that’s right! An hour and a half away!) to watch and help us celebrate these artists and companies in the Vancouver theatre community. Click the event link to find the livestream: https://www.facebook.com/events/251699525928103/

As the taciturn farmer Morgan, Darcey Johnson is grounded and firm with a gravitas that belies his age. - Chelsea Stuyt, Vancouver Presents Darcey is nominated for OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE SMALL THEATRE... Production: The Drawer Boy Check out The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for more information! Photo by: Zemekiss Photography Set and Costumes: Alaia Hamer Lighting Design: Sara Smith Sound Design: Michael Chambers

And of course we had to post about Billie Dawn's other half as well! Herbert makes a meal of Harry’s vulgarity, slouching around in his undershirt, preening, yelling and threatening as his veneer of power crumbles. Utterly bewildered in the end by his inability to get his way, the impotent slob could almost be sympathetic if he weren’t such a dead ringer for that other loser. Imagine Melania as Billie Dawn - Jerry Wasserman, The Vancouver Sun Paul is nominated for:... OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE SMALL THEATRE Production: Born Yesterday Check out The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for more info! Photo by Zemekiss Photography Design credits: Costume Design Julie White Lighting Design Celeste English Set Design Naomi Sider Sound Design Rick Colhoun

"Kellum-Creer gives us a Billie initially confident in her looks and sexuality ('If he don’t come across, I don’t come across'). Even as she descends to self-hatred, then finds a new, more substantial confidence in her personhood, Kellum-Creer maintains Billie’s glamour (aided by Julie White’s costumes) and fizzy humour. - Jerry Wasserman, The Vancouver Sun

Rick Colhoun’s sound design, which borrows from a lot of period pop songs, enhances the script’s sweet melancholy. - Colin Thomas (Review of Superior Donuts) Especially fitting and haunting was Rick Colhoun’s sound design and composition. It added a very special layer of complexity to the evening, mirroring the complexities of life in America then and today. - Entertainment Vancouver (Review of Pacific Theatre's Best of Enemies)

"Always hangdog but never a drag. Nykl’s performance is so thorough it’s like you can smell Arthur’s socks." - Colin Thomas