We are Calgary's pay-what-you-can theatre.
(Parenthesis) Company is an award-winning theatre organization founded in 2009. We present a wide-ranging variety of work both original and established that will ALWAYS be available to everyone on a pay-what-you-can basis. With this we hope to find a unique place in the Calgary arts scene while producing and creating work that is poetic, surprising, engaging - and most importantly - accessible to all.
Sundogs
Workshop Presentation
by Michaela Jeffery
April 15, 2011
Lunchbox Theatre; Calgary, AB
Directed by Anton de Groot
Stage Management by Olivia Brooks
Design by Dave Smith
Sound Design by Jonathan Lewis
Cast: Kara Sturk, Brent Podesky,
Aaron Zeffer, Sylvia Niederberger
IC
by Kara Sturk
February 5 - 13, 2010
Calgary Regional One-Act Festival
Victor Mitchell Theatre; Calgary, AB
Directed by Carla Samulson
Stage Management by Olivia Brooks
Design by Ajay Badoni
Sound Design by Kara Sturk
Cast: Joshua Baker and Mattie Overall
Awards: Outstanding Director, Outstanding Technical Merit,
Outstanding Male Actor (tie - Joshua Baker & Mattie Overall)
Closer
by Patrick Marber
February 5 - 13, 2010
Motel; Calgary, AB
Directed by Anton de Groot
Stage Management by Olivia Brooks
Set & Light Design by Dave Smith
Sound Design by Kara Sturk
With 'Mine For the Evening,' a song by Cody Harper
Cast: Joshua Baker, Stephanie Morris,
Mattie Overall, and Shannon Strumecki
DecaDance
Burlesque Cabaret
November 27, 2009
The Den, University of Calgary; Calgary, AB
Featuring: The Garter Girls and Seven Story Redhead
Lapse (v.3)
by Michaela Jeffery
August 1 - 8, 2009
Calgary Fringe Festival
Lantern Church; Calgary, AB
Directed by Michaela Jeffery & Josh Baker
Original Music by Kara Sturk
Cast: Sasha Barry, Devon Dubnyk, Sylvia Niederberger,
Charlie Jayne Gould, Lara Schmitz
Lapse (v.2)
by Michaela Jeffery
June 18 - 21, 2009
NextFest Festival
The Living Room Playhouse; Edmonton, AB
Directed by Anton de Groot
Stage Management by Nicole Dionne
Original Music by Kara Sturk
Desing by Laura Lottes
Cast: Sasha Barry, Matthew Overall,
Michaela Jeffery, Kara Sturk
Lapse (v.1)
by Michaela Jeffery
March 5, 2009
Calgary Regional One-Act Festival
Victor Mitchell Theatre; Calgary, AB
May 29, 2009
Alberta Regional One-Act Festival
The Esplanade Theatre; Medicine Hat, AB
Directed by Josh Baker
Stage Management by Olivia Brooks
Original Music by Kara Sturk
Design by Laura Lottes
Cast: Jenny Kost, Matthew Overall,
Sylvia Niederberger,
Charlie Jayne Gould, Lara Schmitz
Awards: Best Production, Best Script (Michaela Jeffery),
Best Director (Josh Baker), Best Female Actor (Jenny Kost)
Adjudecator's Award for Writing (Michaela Jeffery)
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Anton de Groot - Artistic Producer
 Anton is a director, creator and designer who received his BFA in Drama from the University of Calgary in 2004. He is a member of the Downstage Creative Ensemble, with whom he shares the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding new Play of 2010 for the creation In The Wake.
Directing credits include: Closer, Lapse, Sundogs, Broke (Parenthesis Company); Tuesdays & Sundays, In Flanders Fields, Krapp's Last Tape (Lunchbox Theatre); Polygraph (University of Calgary); Honesty (Foil Cup Theatre); Unknown Pleasures (Sage Theatre). Design Credits include: Perli in Paris, With Bells On, The Ugly One (Lunchbox Theatre); Good Fences, In The Wake, Bus(t), The Piper, Palace of the End, Habitat, The Dishwashers, Man Out of Joint (Downstage). Production credits include: Ilsa: Queen of the Nazi Love Camp, Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica, Garden Cities of To-Morrow (One Yellow Rabbit); The Highest Step in the World, Reverie (Ghost River Theatre). Writing Credits include: Frankenstein, By Proxy (Calgary Young People's Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre; England).
Michaela Jeffery - Artistic Associate
 Michaela is a graduate of The University of Calgary’s BFA drama program. Selected performance credits include: Vignettes, Pretty People and Vulgarity, Hamlet, Lux in Tenebris, and An Evening of Clown (University of Calgary), Re:Generation (THEATREboom); The Sound of Music (Stage West); Arkansaw Bear (Storybook Theatre). Selected writing credits include: Broke, Sundogs, Apple Mine, and Lapse, (winner of Best Production at the Calgary Regional One-Act Festival, 2009) Kairos Divine, Fetish (Calgary Fringe Festival), and Boy Blue (winner of Best Production at the Calgary Regional One-Act Festival 2008). Michaela is a two-time recipient of the Alberta Drama Festival Association’s “Outstanding Original Script” award for Lapse (2009) and Boy Blue (2008).
Sylvia Niederberger - Artistic Associate
 Sylvia is a recent BFA graduate of the University of Calgary's Drama program. Selected Credits include: Lapse, Sundogs, Broke (Parenthesis Company); Radioheaded 2: A Listening Party to Watch (One Yellow Rabbit/beAutiful Young ARtisTs); i-ROBOT Theatre and i-ROBOT unplugged (Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre); Albertine in Five Times, The Humorous Magistrate (University of Calgary); This is a Play, No Exit (Taking Flight Festival); Waiting on the Thunder (Taking Flight Festival, Staged Reading) Interruptions (IGNITE! Festival Reading Series); Outnumbered (Soulocentric Festival), The Taming of the Shrew (Full Circle Theatre) and numerous improv shows with Loose Moose Theatre Company and Improvenös. Up next, Sylvia will be collaborating with Verb Theatre on their new show Noise.
Kara Sturk - Artistic Associate
 Kara is a Calgary-based actor, writer, musician/composer, and recent BFA graduate of the University of Calgary’s Drama program. Selected performance credits include: Broke, Sundogs, Lapse (Parenthesis Company), Immediate Swoons (Sage Theatre’s 2011 IGNITE! Festival), Radioheaded 2: A Listening Party to Watch (One Yellow Rabbit/beAutiful Young ARtisTs), No Matter (One Yellow Rabbit Student Residency Program), King Lear, The Liar, The Mob, and Hamlet (University of Calgary). Playwriting credits include: IC ((Parenthesis) Company), Now (University of Calgary), and collaborative creations, Immediate Swoons, and No Matter. Original music & sound design: IC (winner of Outstanding Technical Merit at the Calgary Regional One-Act Festival, 2010), Lapse, Closer (Parenthesis) Company), and No Matter. Kara is the current University of Calgary Intern at Alberta Theatre Projects.
Founding Members
Joshua Baker
Mattie Overall
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