site-specific theatre co in Kingston ON

TALK TO ME

a collab between Cellar Door Project & CFRC
LIVE at Shortwave Theatre Festival November 2020 / Premiered ​LIVE at FOLDA on June 10th @ 9PM 

Appearing at Shortwave Theatre Festival, November 2020 live on CFRC 101.9FM

Premiered at FOLDA on June 10, 2020 at 9PM 

Written by Sean Meldrum 
Dramaturged and directed by Wallis Caldoza 
Featuring Mariah Horner & Sean Meldrum 
Shortwave 2020 Callers Maia Journeau, Erin Ball, Nicholas Ramsubick, Kemi King 

Talk to Me is a contemporary, original, live, lo-fi site-specific radio play – broadcast for free on Canada’s oldest radio station, CRFC 101.9. Part phone call, part live radio show, Talk to Me explores intimacy, liveness, consent and exposure through the means of broadcast.

Please note: this show contains swearing and adult material. Listener discretion is advised.  

FOLDA 2020 Callers Erica Hill, Dhanish Chinniah, Simon Gagnon, Malekka Thaker .
The first iteration of the ASL and radio-drama versions of Talk to Me were supported by SpiderWebShow Performance, and presented as  alphas at FOLDA 2020. ​This project is produced with CFRC 101.9FM. This project received financial support from the National Theatre School of Canada via the Art Apart program

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM 
Sean Meldrum (Mickey, playwright and sound designer) is a Canadian theatre artist, filmmaker, and musician. Credits as a writer include Gnaw (Theatre Mies, Toronto Fringe, 2016) and From the Thunder (True Perspective, 2019). Selected credits as an actor include Delusion (Out There Creative, 2020) and Judith Thompson’s HotHouse (Original Cast, Theatre Kingston, 2015). Over the past year, Sean’s short film From the Thunder screened at festivals across the world, winning Best Short Film at the Florence Film Awards, and his experimental piece I Am Like The Moon premiered at the Squat Betty Avant Garde Film Night in London, England. He is a playwright-in-residence with The Cellar Door Project and the in-house screenwriter for Toronto film production house, True Perspective. His play, The Diagnosis, was shortlisted for the Newmarket International Playwriting Competition. For his performance in Cakewalk, he was the recipient of the Focus Film Festival’s 2016 Award for Best Actor. In 2019, he was the recipient of the George Brown Opportunity Award for his work in Sound Design. Talk To Me is his seventh collaboration with The Cellar Door Project.


Mariah Horner (actor and producer) is an artist and PhD student 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 has worked as Digital Content Producer with SpiderWebShow and foldA for the past three years. 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 and graduated with MA in Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy from uOttawa in 2017. She has been published by SpiderWebShow, Visit Kingston, Canadian Theatre Review, the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. She is currently co-writing a book about Participatory Performance with Dr. Jenn Stephenson called play/PLAY: dramaturgies of participation. 
Wallis Caldoza (dramaturg and director) is a dramaturg and artist-researcher pursuing her PhD in the Social Justice Education department at OISE at the University of Toronto. Her research works at determining how to prevent Othering in tertiary academic institutions using quotidian dramaturgy. Selected credits include: research as a graduate assistant for Dr Kathleen Gallagher’s SSHRC-funded project Audacious Citizenship (University of Toronto, 2019-2020), playwriting for Beyond the Bard (Driftwood Theatre, 2020), playwriting for Trafalgar 24 (Driftwood Theatre, 2019), postgraduate induction workshop facilitator (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), 2018), collaborative writer and scenographer for Armen Avanessian & Enemies #33 Corresponding with ghosts – A staged reading with music on the legacy of debt (RCSSD and the Volksbühne Berlin, 2017 – 2018), founder and facilitator of A Space: 48 Hours at Queen’s University (2017), dramaturgy intern at CAHOOTS Theatre (CAHOOTS Theatre, 2016 – 2017), and stage manager of the Young Company’s touring production of Violet’s the Pilot (The Thousand Islands Playhouse, 2016). Wallis also holds an MA, with distinction, from RCSSD for Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy and a BAH from Queen’s University.

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​Kemi King (BigBigMoney) is a writer, director, performance artist and divisor. Some of her work has been produced by Obsidian and Canadian Stage. She has created and performed works with Soulpepper Theatre and as a part of the Paprika Festival. She continues studying and exploring performance at Queen’s University with a major in theatre and a minor in gender studies. During her undergrad she has participated in Volcano’s INforming content three years in a row, along with working as an assistant director/director for a few drama clubs on campus. She is one of the co-founders and artistic director of YIKES a Theatre Company. Kemi is passionate about the arts and the way it can be used to help shape social consciousness.


​Erin Ball (Duchess from Aristocats), a double below knee amputee, is a circus artist and an advocate for the Disability community. She is the owner of Kingston Circus Arts and the co-founder of LEGacy Circus (a performance company co-created with Mad artist, Vanessa Furlong . Erin took a year off in March 2014 due to life changing events that resulted in having both lower legs removed. She has since returned to her passion of training, coaching and performing with a focus of including all people in her audiences, as collaborators and performers in shows, as well as students in her classes. She has traveled world-wide to perform and teach. She strives for representation and highlights accessibility and inclusion in the arts. Erin uses aerial arts and ground acrobatics to tell stories in performances. She loves collaborating, adapting and creating new/different ways of executing the traditional. [A photo of Erin in her car, from the chest up. She smiles and has bright red lipstick and two Barbie lower leg earrings. Her skin is white and her mid-length red hair is down.]


​Nicholas Ramsubick (That Quiet Kid in the Corner) is an undergraduate student at Queen's University, majoring in Biochemical Engineering. Nicholas' acting experience consists of being in many school plays. His favourite character was when he got to play Little Red Riding Hood when he was 11. When he is not studying, Nicholas serves as the co-president of Queen's EngiQueers, a club advocating for queer engineering students. 
Maia Journeau (DramaMama99) Described as an actor with a “grounded physical presence," the American-Canadian actor, Maia Journeau graces the stage with a "voice of stunning natural beauty." Maia recently completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Drama/Music and Economics at Queen’s University where she completed her thesis regarding women’s leadership roles in the operatic industry. This summer, she took part in the The Portfolio Artist Collective for the Opera Association of Canada’s 20th year. Equally at home on the theatre, musical theatre, and operatic stages, her leading credits include Theatre Kingston’s Concord Floral as Rosa Mundi, DAN School of Drama and Music’s The Wolves as #25, and Juvenis Festival’s Spring Awakening as Martha. Other leading roles in scenes from Little Women as Jo March, Timon in Athens as Apemantus, The Importance of Being Earnest as Cecily Cardew, and Carmen as Mercedes. Other credits include QMT's Avenue Q and Cabaret. Described as an actor with a “grounded physical presence," the American-Canadian actor, Maia Journeau graces the stage with a "voice of stunning natural beauty."