Miranda & Dave Begin Again

By Rhiannon Collett

Miranda is grieving something unspeakable and it’s manifesting in curation of a used underwear archive. Her boyfriend Dave is stalking women - but only experimentally. Her 16-year-old sister, Eden, is on the run after a broom-closet blow-job goes awry. Is this the end or just the beginning?

Rhiannon is a queer-identified playwright and performer based in Montreal, whose work explores misogyny, sexuality and ritual. They are the first artist to be commissioned out of Nightswimming Theatre's 5x25 initiative. Rhiannon is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Gender Rubble, a feminist performance collective. Their first play, Miranda & Dave Begin Again, won the Plawright’s Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award, as well as the Segal Centre Award for Most Promising English Theatre Company at the 2016 Montreal Fringe. Rhiannon is a member of Playwrights' Workshop Montreal’s Young Creators Unit, and in 2014-15 was a part of Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program. They have had the opportunity to read excerpts of their work with companies including Nightwood Theatre, Imago Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop & Playwrights' Workshop Montreal. Their essays and poetry have been featured in The Globe & Mail, Intermission Magazine, Bad Nudes and OMEGA by Metatron. Originally from North Vancouver, They were awarded the Jack Shadbolt Award for Multiple Arts Excellence in 2013.