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Originally produced as My One And Only the play premiered at The Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge playRites Festival ’04, one of the most prestigious playwriting festivals in Canada. The play received a second production by Edmonton’s Workshop West Theatre in April 2005. During its development the play was featured at The National Arts Centre’s On The Verge reading series, received an Honourable Mention in the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition and was nominated for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for playwriting. During the spring of 2007 Ken will have three plays premiere in Calgary: Harvest will premiere at Lunchbox Theatre, North American’s longest-running lunchtime theatre from March 26-April 14, 2007. Simultaneously, Ken will be performing his five star hit solo play My Morocco at the Big Secret Theatre (co-produced by Ground Zero Theatre and One Yellow Rabbit. As soon as that closes Ken begins rehearsals for Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY a comic book love story, which runs also in the Big Secret Theatre from May 11-19, 2007. Ken was the director and producer of the recent cult hit Doppelganger, a play written by eight playwrights across the country, providing an insightful and entertaining examination of the effects on grief and tragedy in the aftermath of 9/11. He has written, directed or collaborated on a variety of projects including I Think I’m a Wolf for the Berserkergang, Stop Thinking! and The Climate: a Province in deKlein, for The Art Ranch; Martian, and Zertrummerung for Shiny Beast; and Alien Love Connection for Lunchbox Theatre. Ken worked with One Yellow Rabbit for five years as assistant director on all of their new productions and tours to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Toronto, Philadelphia and Vancouver. Ken was the Executive Director of the Alberta Playwrights' Network, a provincial organization that develops plays and playwrights around Alberta, from 2001-2007. He is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Selected plays In alphabetical order by title: Alien Love Connection Black Tongue Bloody Knuckles The Climate: A Province in deKlein Dear Canada Council Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY Doppelganger Harvest I Think I’m A Wolf! Might As Well Live Mrs. Talleyhouse My Morocco My One And Only Stop Thinking! To request a copy of any of these plays please contact Ken directly via email To inquire about performance rights for any of these plays please contact Ken directly via email Alien Love Connection by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 55 mins Total actors required: 4 Men: 2 Women: 2 Synopsis: Harley is a former child star from a long running CBC TV program; her mother has spent Harley’s savings to become a new age guru. Meanwhile her reluctant partner, the owner of a new age bookstore isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into; and to top it all off Harley is slowly falling for a five-time alien abductee. Production History: October 1997 - Kevin McKendrick director, produced by Lunchbox Theatre Commissioned by Lunchbox Theatre for Stage One Kevin McKendrick dramaturge Return to list Black Tongue by Ken Cameron Style: Drama Number of Acts: One act Length: 45 mins Total actors required: 4 Men: 3 Women: 1 Synopsis: He’s had an affair with his best friend’s girlfriend … and now Coyote’s brought him back to get her. Will she go? Or is she fed up? Only Coyote knows! Production History: 1996 The Art Ranch, at ATP’s Out of Bounds, part of playRites 96 Festival. Return to list Bloody Knuckles by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 60 mins Total actors required: 4 Men: 3 Women: 1 Synopsis: Lola’s husband discovers he’s gay, but ruins Lola’s carefully structured life in the process. On the other side of town Osmo’s got a new roommate who doesn’t understand what its like to try to be an actor. Four lost souls in an urban setting twine around one another. Production History: June 1994, University of Calgary, Lester Fong director June 1992, Realite Jeunesse Festival, Montreal March 1992, McGill Players’ Theatre, New Works Festival, Pierre LaRocque director Return to list The Climate: A Province in deKlein by Ken Cameron (with Doug Curtis and Laura Parken) Style: Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 75 mins Total actors required: 6 Men: 3 Women: 3 Synopsis: The Mayor of a western city finds himself looking for another job; the handler has a perfect idea – clean him and make him Premier! A political satire detailing the struggle to turn a normal Joe into a politician. Based on The Klein Revolution by Edmonton Journal columnist Mark Lisac (adapted with permission). Production History: January 1997 The Art Ranch at One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Ken Cameron & Laura Parken directors Return to list Dear Canada Council by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 25 mins Total actors required: 1 Men: 0 Women: 1 Synopsis: A young girl writes her first ever Canada Council grant; just when she begins making progress, her office is invaded by a vicious, demanding, needy gopher. Production History: March 2004 - Random Acts, Theatre Junction, Calgary - produced by Theatre of the Living Statue - directed by Anita Miotti, staring Abby Charchun May 2004 - Solocentric Festival, Calgary - produced by Theatre of the Living Statue - directed by Anita Miotti, staring Abby Charchun Return to list Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY written by Ken Cameron, Anita Miotti and David van Belle, performed by Anita Miotti and David van Belle, choreographed by Anita Miotti by Ken Cameron, Anita Miotti and David van Belle Style: Comedy/Drama Number of Acts: One act Length: 65 mins Total actors required: 2 Men: 1 Women: 1 Synopsis: Delia’s life is drab. A tax auditor with a giant head and the ability to read minds, who thinks no one will ever love her. Things get worse when she is robbed by the so-called “Sentimental Thief” and falls hard for Detective Lawrence. Two skilled physical performers take us inside a dream world where reality is lived out on roof tops, and a song of ecstasy sung to the moon. A comic book story for the theatre. Production History: Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival, August 10 - 20, 2006 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival: August 17-27, 2006 Theatre of the Living Statue, Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, May 11-19, 2007. Return to list Doppelganger Concept by Ken Cameron, based on a script by Simon Heath (with contributions from Bonnie Bowman, Rita Bozi, Ron Chambers, Doug Curtis, Elyne Quan and Eugene Stickland) Style: Drama Number of Acts: One act Length: 65 mins Total actors required: 3 Men: 2 Women: 1 Synopsis: A man falls to his death from a thirty story building; as he falls a variety of witnesses realize that he looks just like them … “Oh my God, he’s my doppelganger!” But how can he be everyone’s doppelganger? Written via email by eight different playwrights. Production History: September 2002, The Art Ranch at The New Dance Theatre Return to list Harvest by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 55 mins Total actors required: 2 Men: 1 Women: 1 Synopsis: When a retired farming couple rent out their family home to a young professional, they unwittingly become participants in one of the largest successful underground economies– the marijuana growers of Canada. Production History: March 26-April 14, 2007 - Ian Prinsloo director, produced by Lunchbox Theatre Commissioned by Lunchbox Theatre for Stage One, Ian Prinsloo dramaturge Return to list I Think I’m A Wolf! by The Berserker Gang Collective (music by The Plaid Tongued Devils) Style: Musical Comedy Number of Acts: One act Length: 55 mins Total actors required: 3 (plus band) Men: 1 Women: 2 Synopsis: A man thinks he is a werewolf – blank spots in his memory coupled with the bloodied bodies in the alley provide strong clues. He checks himself into a mental hospital for lycanthropes run by the Sadistic Dr. Pigg. Music by klezmer-rock sensations The Plaid Tongued Devils. Production History: August, 1999 , The Beserker Gang at Plan B, The Festival, Ken Cameron director, Anita Miotti choreographer Return to list Might As Well Live: The Words of Dorothy Parker by Ken Cameron and Laura Parken Style: Drama Number of Acts: One act Length: 55 mins Total actors required: 1 Men: 0 Women: 1 Synopsis: Twelve stories by Dorothy Parker are linked together into one seamless narrative whole, telling the witty, sharp and sad story of Dot’s struggles with alcohol and men. Production History: October 2003, The Art Ranch, Beat Niq Jazz and Social Club Developed with the assistance of The Alberta Playwrights' Network (which receives funding support from Theatre Alberta). Return to list Mrs. Talleyhouse by Ken Cameron Style: Drama Number of Acts: One act Length: 35 mins Total actors required: 1 Men: 1 Women: 0 Synopsis: A young boy tries to come to terms with the murder of his sister and with his own incarceration in a Juvenile Detention Centre. Can he get revenge? Should he? Production History: May 1994, The Garry Theatre, Calgary, Kelly Daniels director June 1993, University of Calgary, Kelly Daniels director March 1992, staged reading Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal Return to list My Morocco by Ken Cameron Style: Drama Number of Acts: One act Full Length Length: 75 mins Total actors required: 1 Men: 1 Women: 0 Synopsis: Ken was in Morocco for about a week when he called home to let his parents know that he was safe. They were at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is ... Ken and his estranged sister had not spoken in two years. Production History: Oh Solo Mia Festival, London Fringe Festival April 6-7, 2006 Winnipeg Fringe Festival: July 19-30, 2006 Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival, August 3 - 13, 2006 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival: August 17-27, 2006 Ground Zero Theatre/One Yellow Rabbit: April 4-14, 2007 “Cameron is a riveting storyteller who breathes a narrative so intoxicating I becomes tangible … It’s a powerful and moving homage to the bonds of family, which sometimes fracture but, in fact, never break apart. It’s touching. It’s provocative. It’s a winner.” (Saskatoon StarPhoenix) Return to list My One And Only by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy/drama Number of Acts: One act Full Length Length: 95 mins Total actors required: 4 Men: 2 Women: 2 Synopsis: Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe! Production History: January, 2004, Alberta Theatre Projects, Enbridge playRites Festival 2004 Developed with the assistance of The Alberta Playwrights' Network (which receives funding support from Theatre Alberta), Workshop West Theatre and the Springboards New Play Festival and the 2002 & 2003 Banff playRites Colony (which is a partnership between the Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and Alberta Theatre Projects) and The national Arts Centre’s On The Verge reading Series. Herman Voaden national Playwriting Competition 2003, Honourable Mention. Return to list Stop Thinking! by Ken Cameron Style: Comedy/drama Number of Acts: One act Full Length Length: 85 mins Total actors required: 4 Men: 2 Women: 2 Synopsis: Experimental theatre of the 1960’s gone horribly awry! A demented director locks a troupe of vulnerable actors in a studio for six months to endlessly rehearse the same scenes from The Scottish Play. Told from the point of view of the actors, in which they each, one-by-one, take on the persona of their tormentor. Production History: January, 1999, The Art Ranch at One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Ken Cameron director, Anita Miotti choreographer Return to list

Ken Cameron

Ken Cameron is the author of more than fifteen plays. His play Making Marilyn opened off-off-Broadway at the Bridge Theatre Company in New York City November 2006. Originally produced as My One And Only the play premiered at The Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge playRites Festival ’04, one of the most prestigious playwriting festivals in Canada. The play received a second production by Edmonton’s Workshop West Theatre in April 2005. During its development the play was featured at The National Arts Centre’s On The Verge reading series, received an Honourable Mention in the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition and was nominated for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for playwriting.

During the spring of 2007 Ken will have three plays premiere in Calgary: Harvest will premiere at Lunchbox Theatre, North American’s longest-running lunchtime theatre from March 26-April 14, 2007. Simultaneously, Ken will be performing his five star hit solo play My Morocco at the Big Secret Theatre (co-produced by Ground Zero Theatre and One Yellow Rabbit. As soon as that closes Ken begins rehearsals for Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY a comic book love story, which runs also in the Big Secret Theatre from May 11-19, 2007.

Ken was the director and producer of the recent cult hit Doppelganger, a play written by eight playwrights across the country, providing an insightful and entertaining examination of the effects on grief and tragedy in the aftermath of 9/11. He has written, directed or collaborated on a variety of projects including I Think I’m a Wolf for the Berserkergang, Stop Thinking! and The Climate: a Province in deKlein, for The Art Ranch; Martian, and Zertrummerung for Shiny Beast; and Alien Love Connection for Lunchbox Theatre. Ken worked with One Yellow Rabbit for five years as assistant director on all of their new productions and tours to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Toronto, Philadelphia and Vancouver.

Ken was the Executive Director of the Alberta Playwrights' Network, a provincial organization that develops plays and playwrights around Alberta, from 2001-2007. He is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Selected plays
In alphabetical order by title:

Alien Love Connection
Black Tongue
Bloody Knuckles
The Climate: A Province in deKlein
Dear Canada Council

Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY
Doppelganger

Harvest
I Think I’m A Wolf!
Might As Well Live
Mrs. Talleyhouse

My Morocco
My One And Only
Stop Thinking!

To request a copy of any of these plays please contact Ken directly via email

To inquire about performance rights for any of these plays please contact Ken directly via email

Alien Love Connection
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 55 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 2
Women: 2

Synopsis:
Harley is a former child star from a long running CBC TV program; her mother has spent Harley’s savings to become a new age guru. Meanwhile her reluctant partner, the owner of a new age bookstore isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into; and to top it all off Harley is slowly falling for a five-time alien abductee.

Production History:
October 1997 - Kevin McKendrick director, produced by Lunchbox Theatre
Commissioned by Lunchbox Theatre for Stage One Kevin McKendrick dramaturge

Return to list

Black Tongue
by Ken Cameron

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 45 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 3
Women: 1

Synopsis:
He’s had an affair with his best friend’s girlfriend … and now Coyote’s brought him back to get her. Will she go? Or is she fed up? Only Coyote knows!

Production History:
1996 The Art Ranch, at ATP’s Out of Bounds, part of playRites 96 Festival.

Return to list

Bloody Knuckles
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 60 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 3
Women: 1

Synopsis:
Lola’s husband discovers he’s gay, but ruins Lola’s carefully structured life in the process. On the other side of town Osmo’s got a new roommate who doesn’t understand what its like to try to be an actor. Four lost souls in an urban setting twine around one another.

Production History:
June 1994, University of Calgary, Lester Fong director
June 1992, Realite Jeunesse Festival, Montreal
March 1992, McGill Players’ Theatre, New Works Festival, Pierre LaRocque director

Return to list

The Climate: A Province in deKlein
by Ken Cameron (with Doug Curtis and Laura Parken)

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 75 mins
Total actors required: 6
Men: 3
Women: 3

Synopsis:
The Mayor of a western city finds himself looking for another job; the handler has a perfect idea – clean him and make him Premier! A political satire detailing the struggle to turn a normal Joe into a politician. Based on The Klein Revolution by Edmonton Journal columnist Mark Lisac (adapted with permission).

Production History:
January 1997 The Art Ranch at One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Ken Cameron & Laura Parken directors

Return to list

Dear Canada Council
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 25 mins
Total actors required: 1
Men: 0
Women: 1

Synopsis:
A young girl writes her first ever Canada Council grant; just when she begins making progress, her office is invaded by a vicious, demanding, needy gopher.

Production History:
March 2004 - Random Acts, Theatre Junction, Calgary - produced by Theatre of the Living Statue - directed by Anita Miotti, staring Abby Charchun
May 2004 - Solocentric Festival, Calgary - produced by Theatre of the Living Statue - directed by Anita Miotti, staring Abby Charchun

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Dragonfly Episode IV: IDENTITY

written by Ken Cameron, Anita Miotti and David van Belle,

performed by Anita Miotti and David van Belle,

choreographed by Anita Miotti

by Ken Cameron, Anita Miotti and David van Belle

Style: Comedy/Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 65 mins
Total actors required: 2
Men: 1
Women: 1

Synopsis:
Delia’s life is drab. A tax auditor with a giant head and the ability to read minds, who thinks no one will ever love her. Things get worse when she is robbed by the so-called “Sentimental Thief” and falls hard for Detective Lawrence. Two skilled physical performers take us inside a dream world where reality is lived out on roof tops, and a song of ecstasy sung to the moon. A comic book story for the theatre.

Production History:
Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival, August 10 - 20, 2006

Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival: August 17-27, 2006

Theatre of the Living Statue, Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, May 11-19, 2007.

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Doppelganger
Concept by Ken Cameron, based on a script by Simon Heath (with contributions from Bonnie Bowman, Rita Bozi, Ron Chambers, Doug Curtis, Elyne Quan and Eugene Stickland)

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 65 mins
Total actors required: 3
Men: 2
Women: 1

Synopsis:
A man falls to his death from a thirty story building; as he falls a variety of witnesses realize that he looks just like them … “Oh my God, he’s my doppelganger!” But how can he be everyone’s doppelganger? Written via email by eight different playwrights.

Production History:
September 2002, The Art Ranch at The New Dance Theatre

Return to list

Harvest
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 55 mins
Total actors required: 2
Men: 1
Women: 1

Synopsis:
When a retired farming couple rent out their family home to a young professional, they unwittingly become participants in one of the largest successful underground economies– the marijuana growers of Canada.

Production History:
March 26-April 14, 2007 - Ian Prinsloo director, produced by Lunchbox Theatre
Commissioned by Lunchbox Theatre for Stage One, Ian Prinsloo dramaturge

Return to list

I Think I’m A Wolf!
by The Berserker Gang Collective (music by The Plaid Tongued Devils)

Style: Musical Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 55 mins
Total actors required: 3 (plus band)
Men: 1
Women: 2

Synopsis:
A man thinks he is a werewolf – blank spots in his memory coupled with the bloodied bodies in the alley provide strong clues. He checks himself into a mental hospital for lycanthropes run by the Sadistic Dr. Pigg. Music by klezmer-rock sensations The Plaid Tongued Devils.

Production History:
August, 1999 , The Beserker Gang at Plan B, The Festival, Ken Cameron director, Anita Miotti choreographer

Return to list

Might As Well Live: The Words of Dorothy Parker
by Ken Cameron and Laura Parken

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 55 mins
Total actors required: 1
Men: 0
Women: 1

Synopsis:
Twelve stories by Dorothy Parker are linked together into one seamless narrative whole, telling the witty, sharp and sad story of Dot’s struggles with alcohol and men.

Production History:
October 2003, The Art Ranch, Beat Niq Jazz and Social Club
Developed with the assistance of The Alberta Playwrights' Network (which receives funding support from Theatre Alberta).

Return to list

Mrs. Talleyhouse
by Ken Cameron

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 35 mins
Total actors required: 1
Men: 1
Women: 0

Synopsis:
A young boy tries to come to terms with the murder of his sister and with his own incarceration in a Juvenile Detention Centre. Can he get revenge? Should he?

Production History:
May 1994, The Garry Theatre, Calgary, Kelly Daniels director
June 1993, University of Calgary, Kelly Daniels director
March 1992, staged reading Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal

Return to list

My Morocco
by Ken Cameron

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act Full Length
Length: 75 mins
Total actors required: 1
Men: 1
Women: 0

Synopsis:
Ken was in Morocco for about a week when he called home to let his parents know that he was safe. They were at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is ... Ken and his estranged sister had not spoken in two years.

Production History:
Oh Solo Mia Festival, London Fringe Festival April 6-7, 2006

Winnipeg Fringe Festival: July 19-30, 2006

Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival, August 3 - 13, 2006

Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival: August 17-27, 2006

Ground Zero Theatre/One Yellow Rabbit: April 4-14, 2007

“Cameron is a riveting storyteller who breathes a narrative so intoxicating I becomes tangible … It’s a powerful and moving homage to the bonds of family, which sometimes fracture but, in fact, never break apart. It’s touching. It’s provocative. It’s a winner.” (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

Return to list

My One And Only
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy/drama
Number of Acts: One act Full Length
Length: 95 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 2
Women: 2

Synopsis:
Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe!

Production History:
January, 2004, Alberta Theatre Projects, Enbridge playRites Festival 2004
Developed with the assistance of The Alberta Playwrights' Network (which receives funding support from Theatre Alberta), Workshop West Theatre and the Springboards New Play Festival and the 2002 & 2003 Banff playRites Colony (which is a partnership between the Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and Alberta Theatre Projects) and The national Arts Centre’s On The Verge reading Series.
Herman Voaden national Playwriting Competition 2003, Honourable Mention.

Return to list

Stop Thinking!
by Ken Cameron

Style: Comedy/drama
Number of Acts: One act Full Length
Length: 85 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 2
Women: 2

Synopsis: Experimental theatre of the 1960’s gone horribly awry! A demented director locks a troupe of vulnerable actors in a studio for six months to endlessly rehearse the same scenes from The Scottish Play. Told from the point of view of the actors, in which they each, one-by-one, take on the persona of their tormentor.

Production History:
January, 1999, The Art Ranch at One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Ken Cameron director, Anita Miotti choreographer

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