FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 17th, 2025
ANNOUNCING NIGHTWOOD THEATRE’S 2025-26 SEASON
(Toronto)—Nightwood Theatre is proud to announce its 2025-26 season. For our 46th season as Canada’s preeminent feminist theatre company we have curated an electric lineup that bravely and playfully examine politics, persistence, and progress. This season offers two stellar productions from creative collaboration with Obsidian Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, and Tarragon Theatre, and our 40th anniversary edition of the Groundswell Festival.
The 2025-2026 season will also mark our first full season at the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre (877 Yonge St.), which opened in March 2025 with our collaborators Tapestry Opera. Nightwood is boldly stepping into our new home and our new season with more drive than ever to present exquisite feminist theatre.
NIGHTWOOD THEATRE’S 2025-26 SEASON:
ENORMITY, GIRL, AND THE EARTHQUAKE IN HER LUNGS
Written by Chelsea Woolley
Directed by Andrea Donaldson
A Nightwood Theatre production, in association with Tarragon Theatre
September 16 – October 5, 2025 at the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre – Opening September 18, 2025.
Time stands still as Vic crash-lands in a women’s shelter. The more she tries to listen to her inner voice, the more the fractured perspectives of her personified mind clamour to be heard. Enormity offers a highly physical, fresh, and unexpectedly comedic take on a woman in her 20s seeking refuge.
Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs was developed in Nightwood Theatre’s esteemed Write from the Hip program, marking a 10-year collaboration for celebrated artists Chelsea Woolley (playwright) and Andrea Donaldson (director). The immensely talented ensemble cast includes: Vivien Endicott-Douglas (Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) & Guarded Girls), Bria McLaughlin (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play), Sofia Rodriguez (Beautiful Man & The Solitudes), Philippa Domville (Master Plan), Emerjade Simms (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play & Calpurnia NAC), and Liz Der (Trojan Girls). Alongside them is an incredible group of designers including: Raha Javanfar, Cosette ‘Ettie’ Pin, Ting-Huan 挺歡 Christine Urquhart, and Amanda Wong 黄婷婷.
Nightwood Theatre’s Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson remarks,“Chelsea has written one of the most vivid and exciting plays I’ve ever directed. She deftly weaves high stakes with wicked humour in a play that invites inventive, playful staging. A truly astonishing puzzle.”
HOW TO CATCH CREATION
Written by Christina Anderson
Directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu
A Nightwood Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, and Soulpepper co-production
April 23 – May 17, 2026 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts – Opening April 30th
In San Francisco, four artists and intellectuals wrestle with creativity, legacy, and the complexities of love and family. When they uncover the work of a Black queer feminist writer from the 1960s, her words ripple across time, intertwining their lives in unexpected ways. Bold and imaginative, Christina Anderson’s latest work explores the power of artistic expression and the lasting impact of those who dare to create. A story for dreamers and idealists alike, it challenges us to reconsider who gets remembered and who gets to define the future.
THE GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL: Readings from our 2025 Write From The Hip playwrights program
November 17-20, 2025 at the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre
Join us as we celebrate creation, community, and our 40th anniversary Groundswell Festival! Led by Program Director Intisar Awisse and Program Associate Mya Wong, hear new plays from Beck Lloyd, Mason McDonald, Tanvi Vyas, Renée Wong, and Brianna Wright.
Visit www.nightwoodtheatre.net for the full Groundswell Festival schedule in October 2025.
2025-26 TICKETS AND SEASON PASSES
Season Passes (Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs, and How to Catch Creation) $150, or $90 for underemployed, seniors in need, students in need, or artists in need – passes are on sale now.
Call Nightwood Theatre at 416-944-1740 ext. 100, or purchase online at www.nightwoodtheatre.net/.
Single Tickets will go on sale in summer 2025.
ABOUT NIGHTWOOD THEATRE
As Canada’s preeminent feminist theatre, Nightwood cultivates, creates, and produces extraordinary theatre by women and gender-expansive artists, liberating futures, one room at a time. Founded in 1979, Nightwood Theatre has created and produced award-winning plays, which have won Dora Mavor Moore, Chalmers, Trillium and Governor General’s Awards.
Please contact:
For Enormity: Katie Saunoris | KSPR katiesaunoris@gmail.com
For all else: Jade Silman, Artistic Associate and Head of Communications, at jade@nightwoodtheatre.net