site-specific theatre co in Kingston ON

OUR HOUSE 

a collab between Cellar Door Project & anARC Theatre

Performed at the Grad Club in March 2020
Co-created by Tracey Guptill, Mariah Horner, Liam Bidmead and Kay Kenney 
​Original Concept co-created by Mariah Horner and Kyle Holleran  

A meditation on the cyclical nature of civic engagement in public spaces. A little bit of time-travelling, a lot of millennial grumbling, and maybe a dance party or two. OUR HOUSE is a playful guide to revolution in more ways than one as three people and a clown navigate through their impossible wish to change the world - one saucy night at a time. 

Starring Tracey Guptill, Mariah Horner, Kay Kenney and Liam Bidmead
Movement by Kay Kenney 
Sound Design by Liam Bidmead 

Development process was supported by the collaborative work of Matt Rogalsky, Kay Kenney, Zoe Sweet, Corky Peppley, Kristen Laboeuf, Carly Altberg, Courtney Day, Maureen Barnes, Jolene C. Simko, Taylor Norris, Laura Chaignon, Emily Cummins-Woods, Carlyn Brown, Shannon Brown, Norah Greatrix, Noah, Emilie Steele, Kiel Vereeken, Scott Hallman, Albert Nerenberg, John Rose, Laura Jean Cameron, Bon Evans, Liam Bidmead, and Will Van Ryn. 
We would like to acknowledge funding support from both the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the City of Kingston Arts Fund through the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council. We would also like to acknowledge Single Thread Theatre Company, the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's and Theatre Kingston as our sponsors.  

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM 


Tracey Guptill​ is a movement-based actor, collaborative creator, and teaching artist who recently studied with Philippe Gaulier in France. Kingston co-creations include Ambrose, Anybody Can be Pussy Riot, the film LIVE in Kingston, and When I Get There – a Performance as Research master's thesis completed with the Environmental Studies department at Queen's University, where she brought together her activism, philosophical studies and love of performance. Tracey is also a co-founder of anARC Theatre and the Kingston Stilters. She is an adjunct lecturer at Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University and was recently a Lead Artist for the 2019 inFORMING CONTENT Lab with Volcano. 

​Mariah Horner is an artist based in Kingston, Ontario. Selected credits include: assistant directing Unholy (GCTC, upcoming), directing Hana Hashimoto: Sixth Violin (Thousand Islands Playhouse, 2019), assistant directing Behaviour (GCTC/SpiderWebShow, 2019).She works on digital content with SpiderWebShow's foldA. She is the Festival Director of CFRC's Shortwave Theatre Festival and helmed Kingston's Storefront Fringe Festival from 2016-2018. Co-founding the Cellar Door Project with Devon Jackson in 2013, Mariah has produced 15 original site-specific works. Mariah played Kate Unger in George F. Walker’s HBO Canada Series Living in Your Car. Mariah has an an MA in Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy from uOttawa and has been published by SpiderWebShow, Visit Kingston, Canadian Theatre Review, the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario.
Raised in Kingston, Kay Kenney began dancing the Kingston School of Dance where she trained in Cecchetti Ballet until she moved to Ottawa to pursue her studies at The School of Dance in the Professional Contemporary Dance Programme.  Since graduating in 2012 Kay Kenney has performed work for Caroline Barrière, Cathy Kyle-Fenton, Sylvie Desrosiers/Dorsale Danse, Jocelyn Todd/Lawless Dance Co and has worked in collaboration with Andrea Nann/ Dreamwalker Dance Co (2014-2015), Dark Horse Dance Projects(Ottawa) and MayDay Danse(Montreal).  A company dancer of Ottawa Dance Directive for the past eight seasons, where she has the pleasure of collaborating with artists like Tedd Robinson, Chick Snipper, Andrew Turner, Mélanie Dermers, Harold Rhéaume, Jocelyn Todd, Jesse Stewart and artistic director Yvonne Coutts. Kay also is has been a company dancer for Social Growl Dance(Toronto) for the past six seasons and acts as rehearsal director for the company.  
Kay shares her passion of performance and creation with her passion for teaching and offering opportunities for expression and collaboration through dance in Kingston.  She is a Fletcher Pilates Instructor and artist in residence at the Kingston School of Dance where she teaches contemporary and adult dance classes.  She has been fortunate to have collaborated with amazing local artists and festivals in they city, choreographed and presented three evenings of local dance works and curated a number of pops up events.  You can catch Kay and her dance happenings around YGK by following Movement Market, a group of dance artists coming together through classes, workshops, performances and more!!!
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Liam Bidmead is a Director, Actor, Musician and Composer with a primary focus working on interdisciplinary collaboration for the stage. He is the Founder and Artistic Producer of GRID Stage Company. Liam was also the Artistic Director and Founder of Coldwater Youth Arts Theatre, an all youth theatre company in his hometown of Coldwater Ontario. Directing credits include: The Revolution Has Failed (CFRC, upcoming), Pool (No Water), The Typographer’s Dream (GRID Stage Company), Spring Awakening, Spamalot (Blue Canoe Productions), Little Women the Broadway Musical and Youth Will Rock You (CYAT). Select Acting credits include: As You Like It, Aladdin (Theatre by The Bay) Reel World, Deja Brew (AMDA), Honk! (Georgian Theatre), Seussical the Musical (The Orillia Opera House). Film and Television credits include: Murdoch Mysteries, E.V.I.L. Liam has trained with Peter Hinton, Alan Dilworth, Elaine Overholt, Armstrong Acting Studios, Second City, Volcano Theatre, and has participated in numerous workshops and masterclasses with Theatre Ontario and The Director’s Series. He is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC.
Connor Price-Kelleher has worked all over Ontario and once in Winnipeg as a stage manager, technical director, and theatre creator. He most recently created a clown show with Robin Breiche called Cincip which premiered at the Ottawa Fresh Meat Festival in 2019. Some other past productions include; A (Musical) Mid Summer Night’s Dream – Driftwood Theatre Group 2019, The Omnibus Bill – Tactics Theatre Collective Series 2019, Burnt – Undercurrents 2019, Le Crip Bleu – Fresh Meat Cabaret 2019, Cardinal – Aplombusrhombus 2018, Burnt– Winnipeg FemFest 2018, What’s Cooking – Kingston Fringe 2018. When not at the theatre Connor can be found locking people in rooms for a living as the Technical Director of Improbable Escapes in Kingston. 

​Rachel Shaen is a Lighting Designer based out of Toronto. Having recently finishing her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia she has solidified her passion for designing dance, movement and plays that are off the beaten path. Her latest credits include: The Good Doctor directed by Yo Mustaffa , Lion in the Streets directed by Michelle Thorne and Movement Market directed by Kay Kenney .