Black Sheep Theatre is an independent Ottawa-based theatre company. The mandate is simple: There are plays which should be seen by Ottawa audiences, but are not. These works simply do not fit within the mandates of the established Ottawa theatre companies, whether professional or amateur. Black Sheep Theatre strives to get these works onto Ottawa stages, works from local playwrights (Craig Poile’s The Prize, Dave Dawson’s Cabin Fever) and from established international writers (John Patrick Shanley’s The Big Funk: A Casual Play, and Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins). These are plays of poetry, plays of beauty, plays with a little bit of an edge to them, but more than anything else, plays which deserve to be seen.
Production History
- 06-08 / 2010 - Wild Abandon by Daniel MacIvor
- (Ottawa Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals)
- 06-08 / 2010 - The Last Goddamned Performance Piece by Jayson McDonald
- (Ottawa Calgary and Edmonton Fringe Festivals)
- 06-08 / 2010 - Celebrity Cult by Jayson McDonald
- (Winnipeg and Saskatoon Fringe Festivals)
- 07-08 / 2009 - G-MEN Defectives
- (Saskatoon and Edmonton Fringe Festival)
- 07 / 2008 - BatBoy: The Musical
- (Winnipeg Fringe Festival)
- 06-08 / 2008 - Trashcan Duet by Jayson McDonald
- (Ottawa, Saskatoon, & Edmonton Fringe Festivals)
- 06-08 / 2007 - Tangelico by Sterling Lynch
- (Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, & Edmonton Fringe Festivals)
- 06-07 / 2007 - Trashcan Duet by Jayson McDonald
- (Ottawa & Toronto Fringe Festivals)
- 03 / 2007 - Can't Get Started by Tom X. Chao
- (at the Frigid New York Festival, NYC)
- 03 / 2007 - The Root Of Al Squares by Sterling Lynch & Sam Varteniuk
- (NYC Premiere)
- 06-08 / 2006 - Can't Get Started by Tom X. Chao
- (Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg & Saskatoon Fringe Festivals)
- 06-08 / 2005 - The Big Funk: A Casual Play by John Patrick Shanley
- (Montreal, Ottawa,Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, & Edmonton Fringe Festivals)
- 06-07 / 2004 - The Root of All Squares by Sterling Lynch & Sam Varteniuk
- (Ottawa, Thunder Bay & Winnipeg Fringe Festivals)
- 07 / 2003 - The Root of All Squares by Sterling Lynch & Sam Varteniuk
- (Saskatoon & Edmonton Fringe Festivals) Dir: D. Dawson
- 06 / 2003 - Danny And the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley
- (2003 Ottawa Fringe Festival) Dir: D. Dawson
- 08 / 2002 - Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim
- (GCTC, Ottawa) Dir: Lisa Bishop
- 06 / 2002 - Four Dogs and a Bone by John Patrick Shanley
- (2002 Ottawa Fringe Festival) Dir: Kevin Waghorn
- 06 / 2001 - Missing Marissa / Kissing Christine by John Patrick Shanley
- (2001 Ottawa Fringe Festival) Dir: D. Dawson
- 05 / 2001 - The Big Funk: A Caual Play by John Patrick Shanley
- (Eastern Canada Tour) Dir: D. Dawson & James Richardson;
- (a co-production w/ Third Wall Theatre & Sock ‘n’ Buskin Theatre Company)
- 07 / 1999 - Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman
- (GCTC, Ottawa) Dir: Lisa Bishop & Richard Gelinas
- 06 / 1999 - Cabin Fever by Dave Dawson
- (1999 Ottawa Fringe Festival)
- 06 / 1998 - Escalator by Craig Poile
- (1998 Ottawa Fringe Festival)
- 06 / 1997 - Snacktime For the Uninitiated... by Dave Dawson & Malcolm Fraser
- (1997 Ottawa Fringe Festival) Dir: Dave Dawson