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The Major Matt Mason Collective is a performance company dedicated to creating visceral, intimate, experimental, small-scale theatre about and for Alberta’s younger generations.

11/03/2025

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR TWO EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES!

Apply for the Wildfire Development Unit if you have a piece that you’d like development support with, specifically if it’s interdisciplinary in nature, blending theatre creation with other art forms!

Apply for the Emerging Producer in Residence position if you have an interest in learning more about how to create and produce your own independent work!

Joseph McManus, one of our producers in residence for 2024/2025, had this to say about spending time with us last season:

“This program is a perfect launchpad for an emerging artist or producer. I got to receive priceless mentorship about not only past work, but also got a glimpse into current company operations, creating a well-rounded and relevant experience. The best part of this past year has been getting the opportunity to develop closer professional relationships with the folks I looked up to in my teens, and having them support my current projects through advice and connecting me with other theatre professionals is like a dream come true. These lil guys are the best!”

Thanks Joseph!

Deadline for applications is TONIGHT at 11:59pm.

For more information about either program, check out our website at mmmtheatrecollective.com and head to the Get Involved section.

Photo of Clarke Blair in a work-in-progress presentation of Love & Rage
Credit to Whittyn Jason

11/01/2025

ONLY THREE MORE DAYS TO APPLY FOR THE WILDFIRE DEVELOPMENT UNIT!

Apply if have a piece that you’d like development support on, specifically if it’s interdisciplinary in nature and blends theatre creation with other art forms!

Shyanne Duquette, a participant in our 2023/2024 Wildfire Unit has this to say about their experience developing their piece SKNHEAD:

“Working with Geoff and the MMMC team through Wildfire completely changed how I approach writing. It was a supportive environment that trusted my voice while challenging my work in all the right ways. I also love how collaborative it felt! The team invests in your process, not your product. SKNHEAD wouldn’t be where it is now without that process. MMMC helped me find the core of my play, building it with care, time, and community.”

Thank you for sharing, Shyanne!

Deadline for applications is Monday, November 3rd, 2025, at 11:59pm.

For more information, and to check out our call for our Emerging Producer in Residence position, check out our website at mmmtheatrecollective.com and head to the Get Involved section.

Photo of Mike Tan in a work-in-progress presentation of Love and Rage
Credit to Whittyn Jason

10/30/2025

Do you have a project you want to share with the world but you don’t know how?
Do you have a burning desire to produce theatre but you’re not sure where to start?

The Major Matt Mason Collective is recruiting an emerging theatre artist for an artistic producing mentorship position! This year-long mentorship program is targeted to support an early-career Alberta-based theatre artist with an interest in creating and producing their own work.

Sophie Healey, one of our outgoing mentees from the past year, had this to say about their experience:

“I greatly enjoyed my time as an emerging producer-in-residence. As an early career artist who produces their own work, is incredibly valuable to get to see the inner machinery of a theatre collective. Thanks to this program, I’m much less intimidated at the prospect of writing grants, outreach, creating a budget, marketing a show, and getting from point A (ideas) to point B (execution)!”

Deadline to apply for this position and for our Wildfire Development Unit is this coming Monday, November 3rd, only five days away, so apply soon if you’re interested.

For more information about either opportunity please visit our website at mmmtheatrecollective.com and go to the Get Involved section!

Photo of Nathaniel Hanula James and Sophie Healey in Flux In The City
Credit to Mike Tan

10/27/2025

Applications are being accepted for the Interdisciplinary Stream of our 2025/2026 Wildfire Development Unit, so apply if you’re an Albertan artist and have an interesting project or idea that fuses theatre practice with other art forms!

Day Chase, a participant in our 2023/2024 Wildfire Unit has this to say about her experience developing her TYA show Wanda’s Worry:

“If it weren’t for the Wildfire Unit, Wanda’s Worry would have remained a concept on a page. The Major Matt Mason Collective ensured I had the resources, space and team to support my vision and helped me create a piece that has become important to me, and to several children and educators. Even after Wildfire development, I have a show that continues to be performed and I continue to benefit from. I am forever grateful that I was given this opportunity to create something I wasn’t sure was even possible.”

Thank you for your kind words, Day!

Deadline for applications is November 3rd, 2025, at 11:59pm MT.

For more information, and to check out our call for our Emerging Producer in Residence position, check out the Get Involved section on our website: https://mmmtheatrecollective.com/

Photo of Nyx Orr in Wanda’s Worry
Credit to Sean Dennie

10/23/2025

We are announcing calls for submissions two programs offered as part of our 2025/2026 season:
Our Emerging Artistic Producer in Residence program as well as the Interdisciplinary Stream of this year’s Wildfire Development Unit!
Both programs are looking for submissions from early career Albertan artists aged 30 and under.

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The Emerging Artistic Producer in Residence position year-long mentorship program is targeted to support an early-career Alberta-based theatre artist with an interest in creating and producing their own work.
The position offers mentorship from MMMC leadership, one on one workshops targeted towards the interests of the chosen artist, the opportunity to shadow MMMC producing and pre-production activities for the upcoming season, and consultation towards producing a theatrical project.

The Wildfire Unit’s interdisciplinary series supports Albertan artists or groups who are interested in exploring how non-theatre-based disciplines (animation, dance, installation, music, etc.) can intersect with theatre.
The year long development unit offers a $1,000 honorarium, dramaturgical, development, and producing support from MMMC, as well as a work-in-progress presentation in Calgary as part of MMMC’s Wildfire New Work Showcase Series presented with support from Sage Theatre’s IGNITE! Festival June 2026.

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For more information or to apply to either or both of these programs, please click the link in our bio!

Have a wonderful day!

MMMC

10/17/2025

We’re ecstatic to be announcing the winner of our 2025 Wildfire Playwrighting Competition

Ameer Idreis is a Palestinian-Canadian writer, playwright, and urbanist who tells stories about culture, land, and self-discovery. Writing across form and genre, he has penned books, essays, poetry, and stories for the stage. His debut play ‘Ships in the Night’ won a Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award. He is also the co-founder and Creative Director of in draft co. — an arts collective supporting emerging writers. When he’s not writing, you can find him enjoying a flat white, curating niche playlists, and exploring Toronto’s neighbourhoods.

When Omar, a Palestinian editorial assistant, meets Isaac, a Jewish photographer, their date is complicated by their intersecting histories. Omar carries the trauma of the Nakba in his blood, Isaac holds an Israeli passport from his Birthright trip, and the ghosts of 1948 Haifa play out their own story against a backdrop of escalating war, displacement, and exile. With urgent, tender wit, Ships in the Night explores how political realities shape personal ones and the limits of love in bridging seemingly irreconcilable divides.

Congratulations, Ameer!

10/15/2025

The time has come to announce our 2025 Wildfire National Playwrighting Competition winners!

Our first runner up is Jackson Thompson, with Naked Frankenstein!

Jackson Lee Thompson is a divisor, playwright, actor and director from Edmonton Alberta. They have performed in Sorry not Sorry, U.I.G, Rapid Fire and Shame!’s improv ensembles. They founded Out of Body Performing Arts with Baird Duncan where they are the Director of Public Relations and production manager for the Out of Body’s Review Series and Cold Reads. They have co-produced many original and devised productions in Out of Body including: The Waves (2022, 2024), BOO! Cabaret (2023-ongoing), My Dinner with Arby (2024), and The Public Domain Festival (2025).

Two doctors contend with artificial life and loneliness. 25 people are denied death. A guy getting a vasectomy lands an awful job. A woman discovers she is, in fact, a saint.

Congratulations Jackson, we can’t wait to work with you more on this piece!

08/11/2025

Egad! There are only five days left to submit your work to this year’s Wildfire National Playwriting Competition for playwrights 30 and under!

Seen here is last year’s runner up winner, Mercedes Isaza Clunie, introducing her play, GRINGAS, as well as the incredible team of workshop actors reading the play at the 2024 IGNITE! Festival in Calgary

Do you have a play to submit?
Cos this could be super cool you this summer introducing your super cool play!
It’s free to submit! Why are you waiting? DO IT NOW!
Deadline August 15, 2025

PS: GRINGAS went on to be produced at both the Toronto and Hamilton fringe festivals though First Born Theatre (which Mercedes is the Artistic Director of)!

Photos by Sean Dennie

08/04/2025

There is less than two weeks left to submit your work to this year’s Wildfire National Playwriting Competition for playwrights 30 and under!
Seen here is last year’s competition winner, Anais Mateusz West, introducing their play, Tomboy (Chłopczyca), as well as a shot of our intrepid team of actors reading the play at the 2024 IGNITE! Festival in Calgary

Do you have a play to submit?
Cos this could be super cool you this summer introducing your super cool play!
It’s free to submit! Why are you waiting? DO IT NOW!
Deadline August 15, 2025

PS: Tomboy (Chłopczyca) has gone on to have an incredibly rich development process after our Wildfire workshop and will be premiering in March at the Cultch in Vancouver as part of Warrior Festival!!!
This play is incredible, so if you are in the Vancouver area March 4-8, drop everything and go!

Photos by Sean Dennie

01/26/2025

Flux in the City is closed!
Thank you Calgary and everyone who came out to play with us!
Huge gratitude to One Yellow Rabbit, the High Performance Rodeo, and Contemporary Calgary for hosting us!
Xoxoxo

Photos by the brilliant Wesley Reibeling and Mike Tan

01/25/2025

Today is the final performance of Flux in the City!!!!!!

2:00 at Contemporary Calgary! Touch tour begins at 1:30!

This performance will have ASL interpretation, described audio, and a touch tour!
This is being offered as part of Inside Out Theatre’s Good Host Program.

What is the Good Host Program?
The Good Host Program ensures that theatre is accessible to everyone. Through partnerships with theatres like One Yellow Rabbit and support from TD, we bring ASL, audio description, relaxed environments, and more to the heart of every story.

Thank you to everyone who has come and been a part of this run so far!

Photo by the astonishing Mike Tan!

01/24/2025

It’s night three of Flux in the City!

Tonight we are partnering with for a post show panel and discussion after the performance!

This panel will feature conversation about design, art, architecture and the built environment with d.talks. and the creators of Flux in the City, Nathaniel Hanula-James and Wesley Reibeling.

After the talkback, stick around for a fun and casual reception planned in partnership with Contemporary Calgary, and sponsored by HIVE Developments. Don’t miss this chance to enjoy some post show conversation, music, popcorn, and drinks for purchase.

Flux plays tonight (Jan 24) at 7:30 as well as tomorrow Saturday (Jan 25) at 2:00 at Contemporary Calgary!

Photo by the incredible Mike Tan

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