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Rumble Theatre’s Team.
For three decades, Rumble has prioritized the enhancement of Metro Vancouver’s independent theatre community. Though its artistic vision has morphed along with its different leadership, one of the company’s core aims has been to strengthen and develop up-and-coming theatre talent. Along the way it’s helped create some of the most diverse and innovative stage work happening on the unceded and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Over its history, Rumble has created over 30 critically acclaimed shows, including 20 world premieres, and received 81 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Its challenging and boundary-pushing work has included Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut, Snowman, Blackbird, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
First launched by Norman Armour and Chris Gerrard-Pinker with a focus on multidisciplinary work and building collaborations with the national theatre community. In 2006, Craig Hall became the company’s artistic producer, building coproductions and establishing the Tremors Festival of Emerging Talent. In 2012, Stephen Drover took over as artistic director and further responded to the ever-evolving artistic climate.
Since fall 2018, Rumble has had a decentralized leadership team, currently with Artistic Director Jivesh Parasram, Managing Director Maria Zarrilllo, and Artistic Producer Angie Descalzi, plus innumerous associated artists who are committed to activating cross-sectoral discussion, to collaborating, and to creating alternative models of presentation and production that support engagement opportunities for underrepresented communities in a larger national artistic dialogue. Rumble aspires to build solidarity within an artistically driven, disruptive and decolonial practice.
Rumble is a co-founder and resident of East Vancouver’s PL1422, a shared theatre production and administrative space.
Today, the company produces new works, adaptations of outstanding narratives and contemporary plays from the Canadian and world repertoire. It also champions Vancouver’s emerging artists through initiatives like the annual cabarets and their biannual Tremors Festival.
Howard Dai’s Dream Machine pulls inspiration from Taiwanese game shows, while Paige Louter’s Nod acknowledges chronic fatigue
The violinist’s Fantasy Vignettes interweaves Baroque music, costume changes, and sewing machines
At Progress Lab 1422, a pair of tracks feature multidisciplinary works by Howard Dai, Paige Louter, Cameron Peal, and more
Rumble Theatre’s three-night biennial event set for June 6 to 8 at Progress Lab 1422
Event features three fresh works in a cabaret format at Woodland Park
Theatre schools, the BMI, critics, and casting auditions: everything’s fair game in a show that flips easily between biting, big laughs and darker reflections
Taboo-buster Cheyenne Rouleau traverses more personal terrain in new one-woman show
Think of it as going to a punk show in a basement and seeing new, experimental, burgeoning works
Free, accessible list will help build community across the country
Running for two days only, the production is presented in partnership with the frank theatre co. and Rumble Theatre
