Photo: Sadie Fox at the 2020 SKAMpede Festival. It’s SKAMpede Festival 2020, a summer’s day, and Sadie Fox is on her bike pulling a trailer behind her as she whizzes back and forth between venues. The trailer is stock-full of buckets each with their own purpose from...
Mikaela Haeusser is a director, stage manager and playwright, whose recent credits include Kansha (Stage Manager, Intrepid Theatre YOU Show), Concord Floral (Stage Manager, Theatre SKAM), The Comedy of Errors (Senior ASM, Phoenix Theatre). Mikaela is directing the new...
Playwright Ellery Lamm is two-time winner of Pick of the Fringe for Best Original New Work, Best Drama (2019), and for Overall Favourite Show, Bravest Show (2018). Ellery’s new play, Backliners, brought to you by SKAM Young Company, was set to premiere at this...
SKAMpede, SKAM’s free live performance annual summer festival, happened last month, with hundreds of audience members enjoying the festival! With all the planning that goes into a festival as big as this, a large part of being able to keep it free is due to the...
About the show Theatre SKAM proudly presents Backliners, a livestreamed comedy play about vulnerability and the anxiety of feeling out of control. When six teens with social anxiety are forced into an improv class, tensions run high, alliances and rivalries are... 