Evalyn Parry

Evalyn Parry (she/they) is an award-winning performance-maker and theatrical innovator. As writer/performer, director, dramaturge, educator, songwriter, and cultural producer, Parry has built a unique body of work across disciplines of theatre, music and literary performance, and her work has toured extensively internationally and nationally. From 2015 to 2020, she was the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad TImes Theatre, the legendary queer theatre in T’karonto / Toronto. Recent productions include Kiinalik:These Sharp Tools (Teatro A Mil, Chile; Edinburgh International Festival: Luminato, Belfast international Festival, Cervantino Festival, Mexico); SPIN (a musical work about the feminist history of the bicycle, currently in pre-production for film adaptation); Gertrude and Alice (Independent Aunties/Buddies; a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama); The Dialysis Project by Leah Lewis, (RCAT Newfoundland), The Youth/ Elders Project (Buddies); Obaaberima by Tawiah M’Carthy (Buddies, Dora Award for Outstanding Production). She’s been the recipient of multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards, as well as the KM Hunter Award for Theatre, and the Ken McDougall Award for Directing. In addition to her theatre work, she has released five albums of music and spoken word, and has been recipient of the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award from the Ontario Arts Council. In 2022/23 Evalyn was the Walker Cultural Leader at Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts, and she is currently finishing her MA in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Katarokwi / Kingston; her research explores the connection between leadership, creative practice,decolonial futures and systems change.