Rhiannon Collet

Rhiannon is a queer-identified playwright and performer based in Montreal, whose work explores misogyny, sexuality and ritual. She is 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. Her 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. She has had the opportunity to read excerpts of her work with companies including Nightwood Theatre, Imago Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop & Playwrights' Workshop Montreal. Her essays and poetry have been featured in The Globe & Mail, Intermission Magazine, Bad Nudes and OMEGA by Metatron. Originally from North Vancouver, she was awarded the Jack Shadbolt Award for Multiple Arts Excellence in 2013.