Liesl Lafferty
The Firecracker Department - The Blaze Sessions Season 02
English - February 09, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBTV & Film Arts actor conversation creative filmmaker interview women womeninfilm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest this week is Vancouver-based scriptwriter, story editor, award-winning director AND our co-head of our Writing Department LIESL LAFFERTY! Liesl focuses mainly on creating and developing new works. In 2020, she facilitated scriptwriting workshops in Vancouver with WET INK COLLECTIVE, a writer-driven initiative for women, WESTERN GOLD THEATRE, a premier company that fcouses on sharing and celebrating the talents of senior professional theatre artists and REALWHEELS THEATRE, a threatre that creates and produces performances that deepens understanding of the disability experience. At REALWHEELS in 2020, Liesl was the dramaturg for their inaugural Playwright in Residence.
Liesl performed THE REPUBLIC OF INCLUSION, a short autobiographical one-person comedy about the isolation of disability, at Judith Fair 2020. She won the Jessie Richardson – Larry Lillo Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play for directing HOUSE, by Daniel MacIvor, and directing A TOWN CALLED HOCKEY at the Arts Club Theatre, which she also co-wrote. Liesl was dramaturg for Fugue Theatre’s VIA BEATRICE, by Jenn Griffin, which was nominated for a 2019 Jessie Richardson Outstanding Original Script Award. Liesl received Jessie nominations for directing and producing DRINKING WITH PERSEPHONE by Jenn Griffin, and for co-writing and directing BLOODLINE.
While Liesl was studying for her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, she created and produced the first six episodes of the LIESL LAFFERTY PODCAST where she interviewed theatre artists from around the world, including Canadian theatre greats Brad Fraser, Alison Kelly, and Yvette Nolan.
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