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BROOKE BANNING
59 Heman st ∙ Toronto, Ontario ∙ M8V 1X4 ∙ 416.888.1426 ∙ brooke.kashi@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University College Drama Program, University of Toronto (2007 to 2012)
B.A. (Hons.) in Drama and English
THEATRE: TORONTO PRODUCTIONS
Bury Him (workshop), Canadian Stage, dir. Brooke Banning. (Three-act drama about a
Bulgarian-Canadian man named Serge, 32, who must take care of his father, Petar, 65,
when he is unable to move or communicate after suffering a stroke.
Wolf Sounds, The Box Toronto, dir. Brooke Banning. (Collectively created dance
piece featuring five actors with special needs, exploring isolation, loneliness and
romance within the special needs community.)
Swell Broad, The Storefront Theatre/Peanut Butter People, dir. Laura Anne Harris.
(Dark comedy about a woman in the forties who tries to overstep societal expectations
in an unconventional way that has surprising repercussions.)
Genitalia (workshop), Peanut Butter People, dir. Sarah Kitz. (Dark comedy about a
gay man who comes out to his family, which sets off a chain of events in which they
begin to confess and perform their own strange sexual secrets.)
Swell Broad (workshop), Lab Cab Festival/Peanut Butter People, dir. Laura Anne
Harris.
The Unseeing (workshop), Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, dir. Madeline
Malczewska. (Drama about the strain on faith four characters come up against in their
darkest hours.)
The Cinderella Project, Culture Days, dir. Yevgeniya Falkovich. (Collectively created
production about the ways contemporary conceptions of femininity are formed by fairy
tales and Disney films.)
Opposable Thumb, Paprika Festival – Tarragon Theatre, dir. Polly Phokeev. (Dark
comedy about conjoined twins who, carried away by their imaginations, construct a
horrifying, absurd reality.)
Opposable Thumb (workshop), Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, dir. Polly Phokeev.
Flash Mob, the musical (book), commissioned by Kingsway Conservatory of Music
and Performing Arts, dir. Norma Churchill. (A children’s musical about a group of
teenagers auditioning for, and preparing to perform, a flash mob.)
Joyful Noise, Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, dir. Brooke Banning. (Drama about a
woman who takes on the responsible of caring for her sister who has special needs,
and the strains this puts on her relationship with her partner.)
So It Goes (workshop), Luminato, dir. Amanda Fotes. (Surrealist – a couple is stuck in
a Dresden-like limbo that is influenced and watched over by Vonnegutian characters.)

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We Are The Few, Paprika Festival – Tarragon Theatre, dir. Brooke Banning (Poetic
realist exploration of the romantic relationship between a man and woman with Down
Syndrome.)
HONOURS
 Mixed Company Theatre 2015 OAC Creators’ Reserve Recipient – Genitalia
 TAC Playwrights’ Grant Recipient, Bury Him (2015)
 Covet, Write From The Hip shortlist, Nightwood Theatre.
 Tango Co. resident artist, 2009 – present.
 Oxytocin, Tarragon Theatre solicited plays after reading this spoken word piece.
PUBLICATIONS
 Metric, The Antigonish Review
 Not Purple, Wet Ink Magazine