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Theatre SKAM seeks to employ up to 17 youth for the summer of 2023.
Theatre SKAM is a Victoria, BC, company that has produced theatre nationally and internationally for 28 years. Positions are supported by the Canada Summer Jobs Grant, and all positions are pending funding. We provide a valuable early-career professional experience to...
Call for Participants, Fashion Machine Victoria
Theatre SKAM, Victoria’s most daring theatre company, is inviting up to 28 children ages 9 to 13 to participate in Fashion Machine, an arts project that culminates in a public show where the children remake select audience members outfits in less than one hour. For...
Leadership Announcement
Happy Birthday Theatre SKAM! For your 28th birthday, your present is new artistic leadership! Starting April 1, 2023 (Not an April Fools Joke!), Theatre SKAM will be shifting to a new Collaborative Leadership model. Hannah Mariko Bell (She/Her) and Logan Swain...
Theatre artists, performers, and designers: Teach your passion!
Join the SKAM School of Performing Arts winter session faculty and share your passion for theatre with our students in our new classroom spaces at 846 Broughton and at the SKAM Satellite Studio, 849 Fort. Course proposals are now being accepted for the Winter session...
Meet Dr. Nancy Curry, SKAM’s new school administrator!
Welcome the newest addition to our staff, Dr. Nancy Curry (she/her)! Dr. Nancy Curry is taking over the School Administrator role from Francyne Morrison, our interim administrator who is now assisting Logan Swain, the Operations and Facilities Manager. We are so...
“The work we do should always, in some way, involve community.” Theatre SKAM Celebrates Our Twenty-Seventh birthday.
The summer of 1994 was rather mild, temperature wise. October rolled on the heels of a warm September, carrying something exciting and new with it. In October 1994, Theatre SKAM began to form in the minds of our original SKAM artists when Amiel Gladstone asked Matthew...
A Particular Pallete: Interview with Composer & Musician for It’ll Come to Me Kelby MacNayr
The Lighting Design featured in the above photo is by Logan Swain Kelby [he/him] has performed across Canada and abroad with leading musicians from North America & Europe. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Percussion Performance from UVic and has trained...
The Fun Version: An Interview with Actor and Playwright Christian Martin
Christian Martin (he/him) started work on It’ll Come To Me by a lot of coaxing from Matthew Payne. He’d ask me if he had anything. He replied, “it’ll come to me”. Hence the title of the play. Over time and many changes later, here it is. This version is the director’s...
Pop Up Docs Needs Your Vote!
During Participatory Budgeting, the City of Victoria opens up a voting process to let the public help decide how to invest $50,000 to support community projects that enhance neighbourhood spaces in Victoria. This year, SKAM is excited to have a project in the mix -...
Working as a Director: An Interview with Anna Marie Anderson
A favourite of Theatre SKAM, Anna Marie Anderson is back as our fabulous director for SYC’s newest play The Fates. With tickets nearly sold out and excitement at a high, we asked Anna Marie some questions about working as a director.