Announcing our performance program for 2026-27!
Join us for department productions that present
- students, faculty, professional technical staff and guest artists in live performance creation;
- advanced theatre making and creation exploration by our senior students;
- in-program course-based public outcomes; and
- special guest artist presentations and exhibitions by emerging and professional artists, including our alumni.
Mainstage productions
Our Fall Mainstage!
People, Places and Things
Written by Duncan Macmillan
Directed by Danielle Wilson
Set Design by Nigel Scott
Costume Design by Alexa Fraser
Sound Design by Joe Lapinski
Movement Direction by Trevor Copp
Emma was having the time of her life.
Now she’s in rehab.
Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma. It’s with conveying everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing.
When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
People Places and Things is a physical and theatrical journey through Emma’s detox, denial, relapse, and the struggle to recover her mental and physical health. Time stretches, collapses, and perception warps while Emma attempts to distinguish authenticity from artifice.
The play is both dark and humorous and examines the boundary between performance and truth.
Performance dates:
Nov. 6th and 7th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 8th at 2:00 p.m.
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Tickets will be available through Brock University Tickets.
$10 for DART students, $20 for other Brock students, $25 for the general public.
This show will be performed in the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre at Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines. Limited parking onsite.
To plan your journey to the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, for parking, directions, or accessibility, click here to view our Visiting the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre webpage.
Directed by Danielle Wilson
Set Design by Nigel Scott
Costume Design by Alexa Fraser
Sound Design by Joe Lapinski
Lighting Design by Alex Sykes
Choreography by Trevor Copp
Assistant Director: Jenna Moulton
Stage Managers: Molly Solomon (Ishkode Kwe)
Assistant Stage Managers: Liam Farrell, Benjamin Guet-Lusito
Assistant Set Designer: Emily Schilling
Elio Douglas
Landon Drexler
Milan Fernandez
Jenna Fortier
Teagan Gulley
Deb Howey
Tejay Morley
Sandra Nampiima
Josh Parker
Ariel Piluso
Sydney Bungard
Julia Foley
Natalie Hall
Chiara Elena Hurley
Evan Mowat
Caroline Pepin
Ethan Sniderman
Joyce Thomlinson
Adia Withers
This play deals with difficult subjects that may be disturbing to some viewers. For more information, please click here.
Our winter Mainstage!
Wife of Bath: 1998
Written by Evalyn Parry and Anna Chatterton
Directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones
Set and Costume Design TBC
Lighting Design TBC
Sound Design TBC
In Wife of Bath: 1998, a group of university students attempt to create a theatrical production answering one central question: Was the Wife of Bath a feminist? Chaucer’s 14th-century heroine (Canterbury Tales) becomes a time-travelling spark plug in a fast-moving, comedic and emotionally charged story about sexual politics, power, ambition, and who gets to shape the narrative.
Performance dates:
March 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, 2027, at 7:30 p.m.
March 7th at 2:00 p.m.
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Tickets will be available through Brock University Tickets.
$10 for DART students, $20 for other Brock students, $25 for the general public.
This show will be performed in the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre at Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines. Limited parking onsite.
To plan your journey to the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, for parking, directions, or accessibility, click here to view our Visiting the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre webpage.
Directed by Ruth Madoc Jones
Set and Costume Design TBC
Lighting Design TBC
Sound Design TBC
Assistant Stage Manager: Skylar Perrier
Assistant Stage Manager: Ashley Rye
Associate Sound Designer: Vincent White
Assistant Director: Emily Schilling
Sydney Bungard
Eden Burkhart
Aeyanah Edmonds
Liam Farrell
Karai Flowers
Daisy Ford
Avery Furtado
Nathan Freeman
Chiara Elena Hurley
Abbey Keays
Jenna Moulton
Kashvi Sharma
Molly Solomon
Adia Withers
TBA
Creation exploration and advanced theatre-making by our senior students
DART 4D56
A presentation of DART 4D56 Collaborative Play Development, presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Company of DART 4D56.
These are the public performances of an original theatrical creation developed across the academic year by the fourth year cohort of students with the professional mentorship of Alison Wong, course instructor.
Show Dates:
April 8th, 9th and 10th, 2027 – 7:30 pm
April 10th – 2:00 pm
Tickets will be available at https://brocku.universitytickets.com/?cid=185
This show will run at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre at Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines. Limited parking onsite.
To plan your journey to the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, for parking, directions, or accessibility, click here to view our Visiting the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre webpage.
TBA
Instructor/Mentor: TBA
In-program course-based presentations
One Acts Festival 2027
Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts
One Act plays directed by senior students and performed by members of the DART community.
Performance dates: (to be confirmed)
Friday, June 11, 2027 – 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 12 – 2 p.m
Saturday, June 12 – 7:30 p.m.
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Tickets will be available at Brock University Tickets.
To plan your journey to the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, for parking, directions, or accessibility, click here to view our Visiting the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre webpage.
Guest artists presentations
Department of Dramatic Arts presents Mike Payette, Walker Cultural Leader 2026-27
Mike Payette is a director, educator and actor who has worked at some of Canada’s finest theatres. He has appeared onstage at incredible companies across the country including The Citadel, Vertigo, Banff Centre, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Repercussion Theatre, Segal Centre, Centaur, The Grand, Factory Theatre, Neptune, and the National Arts Centre, among others. His directing credits include Queen Maeve, Come Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall, Cockroach (曱甴), Craze, and Paint Me This House of Love (Tarragon); Mischief (Neptune/Tarragon/Native Earth Performing Arts); Takwahiminana(Soulpepper/Punctuate! Theatre); Blithe Spirit (Shaw Festival); Choir Boy (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre and Centaur); Harlem Duet (Black Theatre Workshop); Another Home Invasion (Tableau D’Hôte Theatre); Hosanna (Centaur/TDHT); Around the World in 80 Days and Reaching for Starlight (Geordie); Venus, Burning Vision and Indecent (National Theatre School); Sensitivity (Obsidian Theatre/CBC Gem, as part of 21 Black Futures); the French-language premiere of Héritage – A Raisin in the Sun (Théâtre Duceppe); along with the national tours of The Tashme Project (Tashme Prod/Centaur/Factory/Firehall) and Lorena Gale’s Angélique (BTW/Tableau D’Hôte/NAC/Factory/Obsidian). A lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, and frequent guest artist at the National Theatre School of Canada, Mike is a two-time Montreal English Theatre Award (META) recipient, a Robert Merritt Award nominee, has served on the board for several local and national arts organizations, and was the co-founding Artistic Director of Tableau D’Hôte Theatre and past Assistant Artistic Director for Black Theatre Workshop. He was also Artistic and Executive Director of Geordie Productions in Montreal before becoming Artistic Director for Tarragon Theatre in Toronto where he is currently based.
mike payette
Department of Dramatic Arts (DART) welcomes Mike Payette, Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre as part of the 2026-27 Walker Cultural Leader Series. During his residency in DART, he will offer a course in new play development open to DART students in second-year and above, as well as faculty and recent alumni. A series of intensive workshops will focus on two works in production and development at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre,
Residency: Fall 2026
Public Conversation with Mike Payette, Artistic Director,
Tarragon Theatre
Wednesday, March 17, 2027
12-3 p.m., Marilyn I. Walker Lobby, MIWSFPA, 15 Artists’ Common
Free community event, registration required. Please check back soon for registration information.
